What These 11 Game of Thrones Characters Look Like In Real Life

Game of Thrones not only satisfies us with the award-winning performances, beautiful cinematography, perfect original score, and heartbreaking plot twists, but also with the amazing otherworldly characters that convince us they do really exist. Besides some of the best makeup and CG in the industry used, the equally fantastic human actors should also be given credit for the huge success of those characters.
Here's a peek at what these 11 Game of Thrones characters look like in real life.

1. Wun Wun - Ian Whyte

Ian Whyte plays Wun Wun, who is thought to be the last of the giants. In fact, Ian Whyte played three roles altogether in Game of Thrones. Besides Wun Wun, he started as the first White Walker in "Winter Is Coming", and then played Ser Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane. In real life, Whyte is 7 ft 1 in tall.

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2. Night's King - Richard Brake

Night's King, the nightmarish doom of Westeros, is portrayed by Richard Brake. Brake said there wasn't a lot of lines for him to memorize in the show, but he had to spend seven hours in the makeup chair - for it takes five hours to put it on and two hours to take it off.

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3. White Walker - Ross Mullan

Ross Mullan plays a sort of White Walker Lieutenant whose most notable scene is in "Valar Morghulis." He told The Verge about what it's like to portray a White Walker, "Body language, arm and leg movement, the way you tilt your head or move it back and forward. It all comes together to tell a story, like a dance."

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4. Leaf - Kae Alexander

Kae Alexander had to sacrifice ten hours of her time for the role Leaf because of "a full body prosthetic".

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5. Pyat Pree - Ian Hanmore

Apparently the GoT makeup department felt some dark eye shadow and weird bluish lipstick was enough to transform Ian Hanmore into the murderous warlock.

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6. Varys - Conleth Hill

Can you feel the Newt Gingrich vibe going on when Conleth has hair?

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7. Lord of Bones/Rattleshirt - Ross O'Hennessy

Lord of Bones, the constantly smack-talking wildling who never warmed up to John Snow, was played by two characters, respectively Edward Dogliani and Ross O'Hennessy.

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8. Quaithe - Laura Pradelska

Luckily for Laura Pradelska, she only needs to put on a mask that looks like a reject Tiffany lampshade to become Quaithe, another mysterious character from the city of Quarth.