1. Tegan Lauren-Hannah Murray was born on 1 July 1989 and is an English actress.
20 Facts About Hannah Murray
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Hannah Murray played Cassie in Skins and Gilly in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones, for which she has been nominated along with her castmates for three Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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Hannah Murray earned an English degree at Queens' College, Cambridge.
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Hannah Murray attended North Bristol Post 16 Centre, and was a member of the Bristol Old Vic Young Company.
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At the age of 16, Murray heard about an audition for young actors in Bristol, and decided to audition for the experience.
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Hannah Murray impressed the producers of the series and was cast as Cassie Ainsworth, a gentle and creative but self-destructive teenager with an eating disorder.
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Hannah Murray went on to appear in the first two series, from 2007 to 2008.
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Hannah Murray left at the end of the show's second series to make way for a new generation of characters.
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Hannah Murray was highly praised for her acting in the play, and it was considered a milestone in her career.
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Later that year, Hannah Murray starred in an adaptation of Enda Walsh's Chatroom.
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On 8 August 2011, HBO confirmed that Hannah Murray would portray Gilly in the second and third seasons of Game of Thrones.
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Hannah Murray was upgraded to a series regular for the fourth season.
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Hannah Murray's character is a young woman who has a baby by her own father, and becomes protected by the character Samwell Tarly.
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In 2013, Hannah Murray appeared in a two-episode feature, in the seventh and final series of Skins, where she reprised her role as a more serious, solemn, and independent adult Cassie Ainsworth.
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In 2014, Hannah Murray starred in God Help the Girl, about three musicians in Glasgow.
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The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2014, and Hannah Murray shared the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for the Delightful Ensemble Performance.
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Hannah Murray starred in the acclaimed revival of Jean-Jacques Bernard's play Martine, playing the title role.
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Hannah Murray's performance was considered one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking of the year by the public and critics, and she was nominated for Best Female Performance at the Off West End Awards.
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In 2016 Hannah Murray played Sylvia Ageloff, a young Jewish American intellectual from Brooklyn and a confidante of Trotsky, in the film The Chosen.
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In 2017, Hannah Murray starred in Kathryn Bigelow's drama Detroit, based on the Algiers Motel incident during Detroit's 1967 12th Street Riot.