Gemma Whelan

Known for: Acting

Born: 1981-04-23 (age 45)

From: Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK

Gemma Elizabeth Whelan (born 23 April 1981) is an English actress and comedian known for portraying Yara Greyjoy in the HBO fantasy-drama series Game of Thrones. She also plays Kate in all seasons of the comedy Upstart Crow, Detective Eunice Noon on the first season of The End of the F***ing World on Channel 4, and Geraldine on the third season of Killing Eve.

Filmography (48)

TV
Dexter Procter
2025
as Mrs Procter
MOVIE
Recall Me Maybe
2025
as Cass
MOVIE
G.S.W.
2025
as Dispatcher
MOVIE★ 8.0
Spiked
2025
as Twinkles (voice)
MOVIE★ 8.0
National Theatre Live: Underdog: The Other Other Brontë
2024
as Charlotte Brontë
TV★ 7.2
Cristóbal Balenciaga
2024
as Prudence Glynn
TV★ 6.2
The Famous Five
2023
as Gertrude Drachmann
TV★ 6.9
DI Ray
2022
as DCI Kerry Henderson
TV★ 6.8
The Tower
2021
as DS Sarah Collins
TV★ 7.0
The Cleaner
2021
as Lara
MOVIE
Game Over
2021
as Mother
TV★ 5.5
Between the Covers
2020
as Self
MOVIE★ 7.0
Emma.
2020
as Miss Taylor / Mrs. Weston
TV★ 7.2
White House Farm
2020
as Ann Eaton
TV★ 7.0
Frayed
2019
as Hannah
MOVIE★ 7.0
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch
2019
as Self
TV★ 7.8
Gentleman Jack
2019
as Marian Lister
MOVIE★ 5.1
Surviving Christmas with the Relatives
2018
as Miranda
MOVIE★ 5.9
The Blue Door
2018
as Clare
TV★ 7.9
Killing Eve
2018
as Geraldine
TV★ 8.0
The End of the F***ing World
2017
as DC Eunice Noon
MOVIE★ 1.0
Sump
2017
as Kate
TV★ 5.6
Queers.
2017
as Bobby
TV★ 5.7
Decline and Fall
2017
as Diane Fagan
MOVIE★ 5.5
Prevenge
2017
as Len
TV★ 6.7
The Moorside
2017
as Karen Matthews
TV★ 8.2
The Crown
2016
as Patricia Campbell
TV★ 7.3
Upstart Crow
2016
as Kate
TV★ 6.8
Not Safe for Work
2015
as Davina
TV★ 8.4
Hetty Feather
2015
as Ida Battersea
TV★ 8.4
Star vs. the Forces of Evil
2015
as Solaria Butterfly (voice)
TV★ 6.3
Mapp and Lucia
2014
as Irene Coles
TV★ 6.1
Siblings
2014
as Ruth
TV★ 7.2
Almost Royal
2014
as Narrator
TV★ 7.2
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
2014
as Self
TV★ 8.1
Inside No. 9
2014
as Columbina, a Maid
TV★ 5.0
Sweat the Small Stuff
2013
as Self - Panelist
TV
The Day They Came to Suck Out Our Brains!
2013
TV
Comedy Blaps
2011
as Lost Woman in the Park
TV★ 8.5
Game of Thrones
2011
as Yara Greyjoy
MOVIE★ 5.2
Gulliver's Travels
2010
as Lilliputian Rose
MOVIE★ 5.9
The Wolfman
2010
as Gwen's Maid
TV★ 5.0
The Persuasionists
2010
as Josephine
TV★ 7.5
10 Minute Tales
2009
as Pretty Nurse
TV★ 8.0
Horrible Histories
2009
TV★ 7.2
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
MOVIE
Thanatos
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MOVIE
The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde
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