Gemma Whelan

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.

Known For

Game of Thrones

The Crown

The Graham Norton Show

Star vs. the Forces of Evil

Killing Eve

Horrible Histories

Inside No. 9

Gentleman Jack

All Movies (15)

• Recall Me Maybe2025 · as Cass
• G.S.W.2025 · as Dispatcher
• Spiked2025 · as Twinkles (voice)
• National Theatre Live: Underdog: The Other Other Brontë2024 · as Charlotte Brontë
• Game Over2021 · as Mother
• Emma.2020 · as Miss Taylor / Mrs. Weston
• Game of Thrones: The Last Watch2019 · as Self
• Surviving Christmas with the Relatives2018 · as Miranda
• The Blue Door2018 · as Clare
• Sump2017 · as Kate
• Prevenge2017 · as Len
• Gulliver's Travels2010 · as Lilliputian Rose
• The Wolfman2010 · as Gwen's Maid
• The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde—
• Thanatos—

All TV Shows (37)

• Dexter Procter2025 · as Mrs Procter
• Cristóbal Balenciaga2024 · as Prudence Glynn
• The Famous Five2023 · as Gertrude Drachmann
• DI Ray2022 · as DCI Kerry Henderson
• The Tower2021 · as DS Sarah Collins
• The Tower2021 · as DI Sarah Collins
• The Cleaner2021 · as Lara
• Between the Covers2020 · as Self
• White House Farm2020 · as Ann Eaton
• Frayed2019 · as Hannah
• Gentleman Jack2019 · as Marian Lister
• Killing Eve2018 · as Geraldine
• The End of the F***ing World2017 · as DC Eunice Noon
• Queers.2017 · as Bobby
• Queers.2017
• Decline and Fall2017 · as Diane Fagan
• The Moorside2017 · as Karen Matthews
• The Crown2016 · as Patricia Campbell
• Upstart Crow2016 · as Kate
• Not Safe for Work2015 · as Davina
• Hetty Feather2015 · as Ida Battersea
• Star vs. the Forces of Evil2015 · as Solaria Butterfly (voice)
• Mapp and Lucia2014 · as Irene Coles
• Siblings2014 · as Ruth
• Almost Royal2014 · as Narrator
• Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled2014 · as Self
• Inside No. 92014 · as Columbina, a Maid
• Sweat the Small Stuff2013 · as Self - Panelist
• The Day They Came to Suck Out Our Brains!2013
• Comedy Blaps2011 · as Lost Woman in the Park
• Comedy Blaps2011 · as Bar Waitress
• Comedy Blaps2011
• Game of Thrones2011 · as Yara Greyjoy
• The Persuasionists2010 · as Josephine
• 10 Minute Tales2009 · as Pretty Nurse
• Horrible Histories2009
• The Graham Norton Show2007 · as Self