Dempsie's earlier acting credits include the medical dramas Peak Practice (2000), Doctors (2001–2003), and Sweet Medicine (2003), as well as the films One for the Road and Heartlands (2003).

Editor's note: This story contains spoilers. It’s the morning after the Game of Thrones Season Eight premiere in Manhattan and Joe Dempsie is dragging from the party. He's also jetlagged ...

Before the series' premiere eight years ago, Game of Thrones was just another audition for many of the show's stars, including Joe Dempsie, who plays the burly blacksmith Gendry. The 31-year-old ...

Actors Michael Sheen, Mark Addy, Jim Carter, Mark Strong, Phillipa Peak, Celia Imrie, Paul Shane, Alan Williams, Rupert Procter, Bill Rodgers, Ruth Jones, James ...

The actor initially auditioned for the role of Jon Snow but was turned down. Joe Dempsie is known around the world as Gendry Baratheon from “Game of Thrones,” but he would have been Jon Snow ...

Joe Dempsie didn't necessarily agree with Gendry's call, but at the same time understood his head space and why he swung for the fences even though he knew the odds were high he'd strike out.

Joe Dempsie says he was destined to play a bastard on Game of Thrones. The British actor had initially auditioned for the part of Ned Stark's illegitimate son Jon Snow (a part that eventually went ...

However, Gendry actor Joe Dempsie believes he’s cracked the code to having a long life in the world of Westeros. Dempsie’s character was introduced in Season 1 and remained a regular cast ...

Joe Dempsie has revealed that he anticipated the divisive reaction that the recent finale of Game of Thrones received from fans earlier this month. The HBO fantasy series finally concluded on May ...

EXCLUSIVE: Joe Dempsie (Game of Thrones) and BAFTA winner Francesca Annis (Flesh & Blood) are among a host of stars boarding season 2 of Ben Richards’ BBC legal drama Showtrial. The pair are ...