Gemma Whelan
Acting • Born 1981-04-23
Biography
Gemma Elizabeth Whelan (born 23 April 1981) is an English actress and comedian known for portraying Yara Greyjoy in the HBO fantasy-drama series Game of Thrones. She also plays Kate in all seasons of the comedy Upstart Crow, Detective Eunice Noon on the first season of The End of the F***ing World on Channel 4, and Geraldine on the third season of Killing Eve.
Filmography
50 credits
Game Over
Movie • 2021
Mother
Prevenge
Movie • 2017
Len
The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde
Movie
Gulliver's Travels
Movie • 2010
Lilliputian Rose
The Wolfman
Movie • 2010
Gwen's Maid
Surviving Christmas with the Relatives
Movie • 2018
Miranda
The Blue Door
Movie • 2018
Clare
Sump
Movie • 2017
Kate
Emma.
Movie • 2020
Miss Taylor / Mrs. Weston
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch
Movie • 2019
Self
National Theatre Live: Underdog: The Other Other Brontë
Movie • 2024
Charlotte Brontë
Spiked
Movie • 2025
(voice)
G.S.W.
Movie • 2025
Dispatcher
Recall Me Maybe
Movie • 2025
Cass
Thanatos
Movie
Inside No. 9
TV • 2014
Columbina, a Maid
Sweat the Small Stuff
TV • 2013
Self - Panelist
Almost Royal
TV • 2014
Narrator
The Tower
TV • 2021
DS Sarah Collins
Frayed
TV • 2019
Hannah
Upstart Crow
TV • 2016
Kate
Game of Thrones
TV • 2011
Yara Greyjoy
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
TV • 2014
Self
The Moorside
TV • 2017
Karen Matthews
Mapp and Lucia
TV • 2014
Irene Coles
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
Queers.
TV • 2017
Bobby
The Crown
TV • 2016
Patricia Campbell
DI Ray
TV • 2022
DCI Kerry Henderson
Hetty Feather
TV • 2015
Ida Battersea
Cristóbal Balenciaga
TV • 2024
Prudence Glynn
Star vs. the Forces of Evil
TV • 2015
Solaria Butterfly (voice)
Gentleman Jack
TV • 2019
Marian Lister
Killing Eve
TV • 2018
Geraldine
The End of the F***ing World
TV • 2017
DC Eunice Noon
White House Farm
TV • 2020
Ann Eaton
Horrible Histories
TV • 2009
Queers.
TV • 2017
The Cleaner
TV • 2021
Lara
Between the Covers
TV • 2020
Self
Comedy Blaps
TV • 2011
Lost Woman in the Park
Comedy Blaps
TV • 2011
Bar Waitress
Comedy Blaps
TV • 2011
The Day They Came to Suck Out Our Brains!
TV • 2013
The Tower
TV • 2021
DI Sarah Collins
Dexter Procter
TV • 2025
Mrs Procter
The Famous Five
TV • 2023
Gertrude Drachmann
Decline and Fall
TV • 2017
Diane Fagan
10 Minute Tales
TV • 2009
Pretty Nurse
Not Safe for Work
TV • 2015
Davina