iain glen played ser robert strong in game of thrones.
iain glen played ser robert strong in game of thrones.
who plays ser robert strong in game of thrones?
iain glen
in "a game of thrones", tywin lannister sends him to raid the riverlands in retaliation for catelyn stark's abduction of tyrion. beric dondarrion is sent to arrest gregor, but gregor ambushes and kills him. he and his men continue raiding the riverlands throughout "a clash of kings". when tyrion lannister demands a trial by combat, the accuser cersei lannister chooses gregor as her champion. elia's brother oberyn martell volunteers as tyrion's champion to expose gregor as a murderer. oberyn wounds gregor with a poisoned spear, but the mountain is ultimately victorious, admitting to murdering elia and aegon before crushing oberyn's skull. gregor succumbs to the poison and his body is given to qyburn for experimentation. following cersei's walk of atonement, she gains a bodyguard named ser robert strong who is of similar enormous stature as gregor, and whose body is completely covered in armor.
gregor clegane
cersei lannister, tommen's mother and queen regent, has been arrested by the faith on charges of fornication and conspiracy. in order to gain release from her imprisonment, she confesses to several of the lesser charges against her, but does not confess to having murdered her husband king robert baratheon, nor that her children are the product of incest. as a condition of her release, she is forced to walk naked across the city as the smallfolk pelt her with rotten vegetables and insults. meanwhile, cersei's ally, the ex-maester qyburn, has created "ser robert strong", an eight-foot-tall figure encased in armor, to be an unbeatable champion in cersei's upcoming trial by combat.
a dance with dragons