English actor
Born: December 26, 1986
Kit Harington was born Christopher Catesby Harington in Acton, London, to Deborah Jane (Catesby), a former playwright, and David Richard Harington, a businessman. His mother named him after 16th-century British playwright and poet Christopher Marlowe, whose first name was shortened to Kit, a name Harington prefers. Harington’s uncle is Sir Nicholas John Harington, the 14th Baronet Harington, and his paternal great-grandfather was Sir Richard Harington, the 12th Baronet Harington. Through his paternal grandmother, Lavender Cecilia Denny, Kit’s eight times great-grandfather was King Charles II of England. Also through his father, Harington descends from politician Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, the bacon merchant T. A. Denny, clergyman Baptist Wriothesley Noel, merchant and politician Peter Baillie, peer William Legge, 4th Earl of Dartmouth, and MP Sir William Molesworth, 6th Baronet.
Harington was a pupil at Southfield Primary School from 1992 to 1998. When he was 11, his family moved to Worcestershire, and he studied at Chantry High School in Martley until 2003. He became interested in acting after watching a production of Waiting for Godot when he was 14, and he performed in several school productions. He attended Worcester Sixth Form College, where he studied drama and theater studies, between 2003 and 2005. When he was 17, he was inspired to study acting in a drama school after watching a performance by Ben Whishaw playing Hamlet in 2004. He moved back to London when he was eighteen, and a year later he attended the Central School of Speech and Drama, from which he graduated in 2008.
Kit Harington’s 5 most popular quotes
- Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn’t really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.
- I love acting and I know that’s a cliché, but I didn’t really, I was very naïve when it came to the whole being recognized thing.
- I try not to read the social networks too much. I find that way madness lies.
- You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they’re very giving, generous, warm people.
- It’s a nightmare if you’re working with someone you don’t get on with, especially if you have to be in love with them.
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