Michelle Fairley is best known for playing Catelyn Stark in the HBO series Game of Thrones.
17 Facts About Michelle Fairley
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Michelle Fairley has since appeared in the USA Network series Suits, the Fox series 24: Live Another Day, the RTE miniseries Rebellion, the science fiction series The Feed, and the Sky Atlantic crime drama Gangs of London.
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Michelle Fairley's father was a popular publican, owner of Fairley's Bar and several off-licences, in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, but Fairley remembers both Catholics and Protestants frequenting the pub.
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Michelle Fairley appeared in a number of British television shows, including The Bill, Holby City and Casualty.
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Michelle Fairley took over the role of Mrs Granger from Heather Bleasdale in the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows films.
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From 2011 to 2013, Michelle Fairley starred as Catelyn Stark in the first three seasons of the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones, replacing Jennifer Ehle who played the character in the original pilot episode.
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Michelle Fairley joined the cast of the USA Network series Suits for its third season, playing the recurring role of Ava Hessington.
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Michelle Fairley played Margot Al-Harazi in 24: Live Another Day on Fox.
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In 2017, it was announced Michelle Fairley would appear in a revival of Jim Cartwright's play Road at the Royal Court Theatre In 2018, she played Cassius in Julius Caesar at the Bridge Theatre, alongside David Calder, David Morrissey and Ben Whishaw.
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In 2019, Michelle Fairley led the Virgin Media and Amazon Prime science fiction series The Feed as Meredith Hatfield.
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Michelle Fairley starred as Millie in the 2021 film Nobody Has To Know alongside Bouli Lanners.
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In 2023, Michelle Fairley starred as Princess Augusta in Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story on Netflix.
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Michelle Fairley has been based in London since 1986, and keeps a low public profile.
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Michelle Fairley said in an interview with The Telegraph in 2015, that she made the decision to separate from her boyfriend of seven years in 2012.
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Michelle Fairley said, in the same interview, that she "missed the gene" for motherhood.
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Michelle Fairley never had the desire to have children like some of her siblings did.
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Michelle Fairley said that television and movies challenge her in a different way and make her "use a different muscle," but theatre is where she feels her best work is done, where she started her career, and where she hopes to "end up".