michelle fairley played robb stark's wife in game of thrones.
michelle fairley played robb stark's wife in game of thrones.
who played robb stark's wife in game of thrones?
michelle fairley
robb stark (seasons 1–3) portrayed by richard madden. robb stark of house stark is the eldest son of eddard and catelyn stark and the heir to winterfell. his dire wolf is called grey wind. robb becomes involved in the war against the lannisters after his father, ned stark, is arrested for treason. robb summons his bannermen for war against house lannister and marches to the riverlands. eventually, crossing the river at the twins becomes strategically necessary. to win permission to cross, robb agrees to marry a daughter of walder frey, lord of the twins. robb leads the war effort against the lannisters and successfully captures jaime. after ned is executed, the north and the riverlands declare their independence from the seven kingdoms and proclaim robb as their new king, "the king in the north". he wins a succession of battles in season 2, earning him the nickname the young wolf. however, he feels that he botched the political aspects of war. he sends theon to the iron islands hoping that he can broker an alliance with balon greyjoy, theon's father. in exchange for greyjoy support, robb as king in the north will recognize the iron islands' independence. he also sends his mother catelyn to deal with stannis baratheon and renly baratheon, both of whom are fighting to be the rightful king. theon and catelyn fail in their missions, and balon launches an invasion of the north. robb falls in love with talisa maegyr, a healer from volantis due to her kindness and spirit. despite his mother's protest, robb breaks his engagement with the freys and marries talisa in the 2nd-season finale. on news of his grandfather, lord hoster tully's, death, robb and his party travel north to riverrun for the funeral, where the young king is reunited with his great-uncle, ser brynden "blackfish" tully, and his uncle, edmure tully, the new lord of riverrun. while at riverrun, robb makes the decision to execute lord rickard karstark for the murders of two teenage squires related to the lannisters, a decision that loses the support of the karstarks and leads robb to make the ultimately fatal decision to ask the freys for their alliance. he is killed in the red wedding massacre, after witnessing the murder of his pregnant wife and their child. lord bolton personally executes robb, stabbing him through the heart while taunting that "the lannisters send their regards", in fact a promise made to jaime (who had no knowledge of bolton's impending treason) when leaving for the twins. his corpse is later decapitated and grey wind's head is sewn on and paraded around as the stark forces are slaughtered by the boltons and freys
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bullet::::- walder frey (seasons 1, 3, 6–7) portrayed by david bradley. lord walder frey, nicknamed the "late lord frey", is the head of house frey, lord of the crossing and bannerman to house tully. he is known for outliving his many wives (now on his 8th) and siring over 100 children (both bastard and trueborn). because the use of the twins became a strategic necessity for robb's host, walder was able to negotiate marriage contracts for his children to robb and arya stark. but during season 2 robb broke his word and married lady talisa. for this slight, and willing to take advantage of the war's changing fortunes, he conspires with tywin lannister and roose bolton to betray robb stark at the wedding of his liege edmure tully, which he insists in return for support of his men. frey hosts the infamous "red wedding" at which robb stark, his wife and mother are all murdered, refusing to spare robb even as catelyn holds lady frey hostage and threatens to slit her throat, which she does. he is subsequently granted riverrun and its lands (though the title lord paramount of the riverlands passes to harrenhal and house baelish) and expresses delight to take another young wife, but his house is irredeemably tarnished by the betrayal and house tully's vassals refuse to submit to his rule. in season 6, he is outraged when he hears of the blackfish recapture' of riverrun and blames his sons lothar and black walder for allowing him to escape. he then orders them to retake the castle using edmure tully as a hostage. though they successfully retake riverrun with the help of a lannister host led by jaime lannister, walder is ambushed shortly afterwards by arya stark, who slits his throat in revenge for the red wedding. in season 7, arya uses walder's face to deceive and poison the rest of his family.
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