Gwendoline Christie Quotes


They told me I would find it difficult to find work because of the way that I look and they weren't wrong. [laughs] I thought, "Well, I'll prove you wrong" because I genuinely believed that the world was a more diverse place than they perhaps viewed it to be.


Citations

Christie, Gwendoline. "Gwendoline Christie's 30-Year Journey to Her First Emmy Nomination." Interview by Sydney Lucas. Backstage, Backstage LLC, 14 Aug. 2019.

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Gwendoline Christie
Gwendoline Christie
  • Born: October 28, 1978
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Actress

Gwendoline Tracey Philippa Christie is an English actress and model. She is best known for portraying Brienne of Tarth in the HBO fantasy-drama series Game of Thrones (2012–2019), and the First Order stormtrooper Captain Phasma in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) and Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017). For the former, she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2019.