Kit Harington Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Contact & Informations

Kit Harington
Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Contact & Informations

Here you can learn about Kit Harington’s career and private life facts, read the latest news, find all the awards she has won and view photos and videos.

PERSONAL DATA OF KIT HARINGTON

Age: 35 years
Height: 173 cm
Born in: Worcester, Great Britain
Born on: 26/01/1986

Spouse: Rose Leslie (married since 2018)

KIT HARINGTON BIOGRAPHY

Kit Harington, born Christopher Catesby Harington, was born on December 26, 1986 in London from a family of noble origins since the sixteenth century. The father, a businessman, is in fact the fifteenth baronet of the Haringtons, while the mother a former playwright, from whom Kit took his passion for the theater, although this interest of his was born after the young Kit, at the age fourteen years old, he saw a production of “Waiting for Godot”. Indeed, Harington initially wanted to become a journalist, cameram or reporter and considered theater only a hobby that could never become a profession. During his adolescence he follows some lessons at the National Youth Theater, also taking part in several school productions, but it is in 2004 after having witnessed the interpretation of Ben Whishaw in “Hamlet” that he decides to pursue a theatrical career. After graduation he applies to the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama of the University of London, where he graduates in 2008.

During the years of study he was chosen as the protagonist of “War Horse”, staged at the Royal National Theater in London. An interpretation of the latter that highlights him, so much so as to allow him to win the role of Jon Snow in the hit series Game of thrones (2011), which keeps him busy on the front line until 2019, the year of the eighth and final season. Jon Snow conquers the public, consecrating the English actor, who over the years has received several nominations, including one for the Emmy Awards. In 2012 also comes the debut on the big screen with horror Silent Hill: Revelation 3D and the following year he was awarded the Young Hollywwod Award as Actor of the Year, an award given to emerging talents.

While Silent Hill is a very relevant role, it is with Pompeii (2014) that Harington receives the starring part in the cinema. In the same side Alicia Vikander in the biopic Testament of Youth (2014) about the writer and pacifist Vera Brittan, but will also find the Swedish actress on the set of the fantasy The seventh son (2014) together with Jeff Brisges is Julianne Moore. The spy thriller follows Spooks – The supreme good (2015) and the western Brimstone (2015), while on the small screen he is the protagonist of the miniseries Gunpowder (2017) on the conspiracy of dust; Harington plays 16th-century politician Robert Catesby, from whom he is directly descended on the maternal side. His entry into the cast in the film is later announced Xavier Dolan, My life with John F. Donovan, in which he plays the movie and TV star on which the film is centered.