ALL HAIL THE QUEEN EMILIA CLARKE
WE ALL KNOW HER FROM THE CHARACTER OF DAENERYS TARGARIAN IN ‘THE GAME OF THRONES’ SERIES WHICH THE WHOLE WORLD FOLLOWED WITH EXCITEMENT. WITH HER PLATINUM BLONDE HAIR AND ICE BLUE EYES, SHE WAS AMAZING FOR EIGHT SEASONS. SHE WAS THE QUEEN OF DRAGONS FOR US ALL. AFTER THE SERIES ENDED, EMILIA CLARKE’S INCREDIBLE RISE CONTINUES. SHE PURSUITS HER ACTING CAREER AND HAS ALSO STARTED WORKING WITH LUXURY BRANDS. LET’S GET TO KNOW ABOUT THIS WONDERFUL WOMAN WHO CONQUERED OUR HEARTS.
Khaleesi, whose full name is Emilia Isobel Euphemia Rose Clarke, was born on October 23, 1986 in London, England, to a sound engineer father and a charity executive mother, and grew up in the Earl of Berkshire. Clarke’s interest in acting started when she was only three years old when she watched the musical Show Boat at the theater where her father worked. The first steps were taken for the whole world to recognize her with the character of ‘Daenerys Targaryen’, and after graduating high school, she found herself at the Drama Center London University. In her first years of acting, she took part in many large and small projects. Her first role on television was with the character Savannah in the movie ‘Triassic Attack’, which was also screened in Turkey in 2010. Even after this movie, Screen International magazine evaluated her as the British star of the future ‘UK Stars Of Tomorrow’ and gave the signals that she is the rising star of the future.
Journey to the Top with Game of Thrones
As everyone knows, this scrumptious but incredibly talented young girl made her journey to the top in 2010 as Daenerys Targaryen in the Game of Thrones series based on George R. R. Martin’s book ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’. One of the most striking characters of the series, Daenerys Stormborn, Khaleesi, Fireproof or Mother of Dragons, as it is known by everyone, caused her to be known all over the world. If we go back to the beginning of the matter a little more, we can say that she deserves this reputation. An example of this is Clarke’s duck-dancing confession at the casting of Game of Thrones on Jimmy Fallon’s talk show program, which she participated in 2014. The beautiful actress describes those moments as follows: “It was a really big audition and I felt very nervous. Lots of people from HBO were there. I reenacted all the scenes that were asked of me and asked, ‘Do you want me to do something else?’ David Benioff (co-producer of Game of Thrones) suggested that I dance. I also did the duck dance.” When the sympathetic actress received a positive reaction from the opposite side, she continued this dance with a robot dance. As a result, this successful dance performance was more than enough to make her the Mother of Dragons. With the show’s boom, Clarke won the 2011 Ewwy Award for Best Supporting Actress for a drama at the Ewwy awards for her role as Daenerys Targaryen. As such, Clarke’s rising star also caught the eye of the big screen and starred with Sam Claflin in the 2016 movie ‘Me Before You’. You can see Clarke’s passion for her job and her love for the characters she portrays from her tattoos. One of them is three dragon tattoos, which she shared on Instagram with the note “This mother will never forget her babies.” The other one is the bee tattoo on the pinky finger of the character Louisa portrayed in the movie ‘Me Before You’. Let’s add that Clarke is also a serious music lover, apart from her love for acting. The talented actress can play the piano, guitar and flute, and her voice is just as fascinating. Even those who are curious can take a look at Dolce&Gabbana’s The Only One campaign.
Private Life
Although her private life can’t be found in the pages of the magazines, Clarke’s last known love story is the relationship that she started in 2012 with the famous US actor and singer Seth MacFarlane. The beautiful actress, who stated that it is difficult to be with a famous person and that her relationship is over, has not been mentioned with anyone else since that day. Behind her success in TV series and movies, there is another dramatic story of the famous star; she also has a serious health problem. The Queen of Dragons’ first encounter with an Aneurysm was right after the first season of Game of Thrones was finished filming. Clarke didn’t even know she had this disease until she collapses and faints while playing sports with her trainer after the first season of Game of Thrones ends. Khaleesi, who stayed in intensive care for four days after her first encounter with an aneurysm and then suffered from temporary memory loss, describes those days with these words; “At my worst times, I wanted to pull that plug. I kept asking the doctors to leave me to die. My job, all my dreams about the future, was all about communication. Without them, you could consider me missing.” Explaining that she feels good again after the difficult period and is finally ready to share these experiences with the world, Emilia Clarke also has a charity called ‘Same You’, which aims to provide assistance to people suffering from cerebral hemorrhage and stroke.