joe dempsie played king robert's bastard son in game of thrones.
joe dempsie played king robert's bastard son in game of thrones.
who plays king robert's bastard son in game of thrones?
joe dempsie
gendry (seasons 1–3, 7–8) portrayed by joe dempsie. gendry is an apprentice blacksmith in king's landing and an unacknowledged bastard of king robert. gendry shows promise as a smith and makes a helmet in the shape of a bull's head; eddard compliments the helmet, offering to purchase it. gendry refuses, to the shame of the master smith. after eddard stark's fall and eventual execution, arrangements are made for yoren of the night's watch to take gendry to the wall with him; he travels north with yoren and other recruits, including arry, lommy greenhands, hot pie and jaqen h'ghar. during their journey, they are stopped by the goldcloaks, who demand that yoren give up gendry as king joffrey wants all of his father's bastards killed but are forced to leave by yoren. later, gendry reveals to arry that he knows she is a girl disguised as a boy all along and is surprised to learn she is arya, ned stark's daughter. after the goldcloaks get help from ser amory lorch and his men who kill yoren, gendry's life is saved by arya when she lies to the goldcloaks that lommy, who was killed during the attack, was gendry. gendry and the rest of recruits are sent to harrenhal where ser gregor clegane arbitrarily has many of the prisoners tortured and killed. gendry was about to suffer this fate but is saved by the arrival of lord tywin lannister, who chides clegane's men for their reckless behavior. thanks to jaqen, arya, gendry and hot pie are able to escape harrenhal. as they head towards the riverlands, the group encounters the brotherhood without banners, a group of outlaws that defend the weak. inspired, he decides to join the brotherhood but is betrayed by them when they sell him to lady melisandre as ordered by the lord of light. melisandre later reveals to gendry that king robert was his father and she is bringing him to meet his uncle, king stannis. but in truth, melisandre and stannis planned to use him for her blood magic where stannis uses his nephew's blood to make a death curse on the usurpers to his throne, joffrey, robb, and balon greyjoy. before they can use him as a sacrifice, davos seaworth helps gendry escape and puts him on a boat to king's landing. unable to swim or row, gendry is nevertheless convinced that the red woman has a surer death in spare for him, and davos asks him to "have a bowl'o brown for me" when returning to flea bottom. in season 7 davos, on a clandestine visit to king's landing, seeks out gendry and finds him working as a smith. gendry needs no persuading to go with davos to dragonstone. there he meets jon snow and volunteers to go with jon on a mission north of the wall to capture a wight. during the mission he is sent back to the wall to summon help. he gets word to daenerys, and later leaves with the others on the targaryen ship.
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in the continent of westeros, warden of the north eddard "ned" stark becomes "hand of the king" (chief adviser) to king robert baratheon. when ned's son bran stumbles upon queen cersei having sex with her twin brother jaime lannister, jaime cripples bran. after moving to king's landing, the capital of the seven kingdoms, ned discovers that prince joffrey and his siblings were incestuously fathered by jaime. when king robert dies, ned does not recognize joffrey as the rightful heir and is executed. ned's bastard son jon snow joins the night's watch, an ancient brotherhood sworn to watch over the massive wall in the north, which separates the seven kingdoms from hostile tribes known as "wildlings" and mythological humanoid creatures known as "white walkers". in the continent of essos, the exiled viserys targaryen, son of king aerys who was deposed by king robert, marries off his sister daenerys to the dothraki warlord khal drogo, in exchange for an army to return to and take over westeros. eventually drogo kills viserys and drogo later dies himself. after drogo dies, daenerys manages to hatch three dragons.
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