Acting

Gemma Whelan

Born 1981-04-23 · 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.

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7 Miles Out
as Bryn Westbourne
2026
Dexter Procter
as Mrs Procter
2025
Recall Me Maybe
as Cass
2025
G.S.W.
as Dispatcher
2025
Spiked
as Twinkles (voice)
2025
National Theatre Live: Underdog: The Other Other Brontë
as Charlotte Brontë
2024
Cristóbal Balenciaga
as Prudence Glynn
2024
The Famous Five
as Gertrude Drachmann
2023
DI Ray
as DCI Kerry Henderson
2022
The Tower
as DS Sarah Collins
2021
The Tower
as DI Sarah Collins
2021
The Cleaner
as Lara
2021
Game Over
as Mother
2021
Between the Covers
as Self
2020
Emma.
as Miss Taylor / Mrs. Weston
2020
White House Farm
as Ann Eaton
2020
Frayed
as Hannah
2019
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch
as Self
2019
Gentleman Jack
as Marian Lister
2019
Surviving Christmas with the Relatives
as Miranda
2018
The Blue Door
as Clare
2018
Killing Eve
as Geraldine
2018
The End of the F***ing world
as Eunice
2018
The End of the F***ing World
as DC Eunice Noon
2017
Sump
as Kate
2017
Queers.
as Bobby
2017
Queers.
2017
Decline and Fall
as Diane Fagan
2017
Prevenge
as Len
2017
The Moorside
as Karen Matthews
2017
The Crown
as Patricia Campbell
2016
Upstart Crow
as Kate
2016
Not Safe for Work
as Davina
2015
Hetty Feather
as Ida Battersea
2015
Star vs. the Forces of Evil
as Solaria Butterfly (voice)
2015
Mapp and Lucia
as Irene Coles
2014
Siblings
as Ruth
2014
Almost Royal
as Narrator
2014
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
as Self
2014
Inside No. 9
as Columbina, a Maid
2014
Sweat the Small Stuff
as Self - Panelist
2013
The Day They Came to Suck Out Our Brains!
2013
Comedy Blaps
as Lost Woman in the Park
2011
Comedy Blaps
as Bar Waitress
2011
Comedy Blaps
2011
Game of Thrones
as Yara Greyjoy
2011
Gulliver's Travels
as Lilliputian Rose
2010
The Wolfman
as Gwen's Maid
2010
The Persuasionists
as Josephine
2010
10 Minute Tales
as Pretty Nurse
2009
Horrible Histories
2009
Horrible Histories
Writer
2009
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde
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Thanatos
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