Joe Dempsie

Joseph Maxwell Dempsie is an English actor, best known for his roles as Chris Miles in the E4 teen comedy-drama Skins (2007–2008) and Gendry Baratheon in Game of Thrones (2011–2013; 2017–2019).

Joe Dempsie
Dempsie in 2018
Born	Liverpool, Merseyside, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2000–present

Dempsie's earlier acting credits include the medical dramas Peak Practice (2000), Doctors (2001–2003), and Sweet Medicine (2003), as well as the films One for the Road and Heartlands (2003). He also appeared in This is England '86 (2010) and This is England '90 (2015), Born and Bred, a BBC documentary-drama about Tony Martin, and as the villainous John in The Fades (2011).

Early life and education

Joseph Maxwell Dempsie^{[citation needed]} was born in Liverpool. His father was a social worker and his mother an educational psychologist.^[1] He grew up in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire.^[2]

He was educated at West Bridgford School, and received acting training from the Central Junior Television Workshop in Nottingham.^[3]

Career

Dempsie has been the voice of the Clearasil advertisements in the UK.^[4][5] In episode 6 of the fourth series of Doctor Who, "The Doctor's Daughter", that aired on 10 May 2008, Dempsie played the character Cline,^[6] a soldier who watches his comrades die.^[7] On 18 April 2008, Dempsie appeared on Friday Night Project with Geri Halliwell.^[8] On 20 July 2008, he appeared at T4 on the Beach in Weston Super Mare alongside fellow Skins cast members. He appeared as Duncan McKenzie in 2009's The Damned United alongside Michael Sheen, Jim Broadbent, Stephen Graham and Timothy Spall. In November 2008, he appeared in The Moment of Truth, episode 10 of the BBC show Merlin. He plays Will, who is an old friend of Merlin's, from the village in which they grew up together.

In 2010, he voiced Steven, a gay teenager from Nottinghamshire in the Radio 4 play Once Upon a Time.^[5] He plays the character of Gendry Baratheon in HBO's series Game of Thrones based on George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels.^[9] He appeared in the first three, seventh and eighth of its eight seasons. He also appeared in the Channel 4 mini-series This Is England '86, as well as the follow-ups This Is England '88 and This Is England '90. He has also appeared in Harry & Paul on BBC Two, appearing as a northerner who was presented as a gift from the character Harry was playing to his daughter.^[10] Recently he has appeared in the BBC Three series The Fades (episodes 3 to 6), as John.^[11]

In January 2021, it was announced that Dempsie was cast as Nick in the upcoming Netflix thriller series Pieces of Her, which is adapted from the Karin Slaughter novel of the same name.^[12]

Personal life

As of 2015, Dempsie was residing in London.^[13]

He is a Nottingham Forest F.C. fan.^[14]

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2002	Heartlands	Craig
2003	One for the Road	'TWOC'er (Joyrider)
2008	Listen to the Words	Tim
2009	Spirited	Dean	Short film
	The Damned United	Duncan McKenzie
2010	Edge	Philip
	Lucy Island	David
2011	Blitz	Theo Nelson
	Happy Clapper	Marshy	Short films
	Cardinal	Pride
2014	Monsters: Dark Continent	Frankie Maguire
2015	Burn Burn Burn	James
2016	Deep Swimmer	Mark Kennedy
	Madly	(unknown)	Segment: 'I Do'
2017	StarGirl	Meteor Hunter 2	Short film
	Dark River	David
	Come Out of the Woods	Ally	Short film
2018	Been So Long	Kestrel
2019	Eighteen Weeks	Craig Tomlin	Short films
2020	Aftertaste	Alfie
2023	Soulmate	Neil
2024	Addition	Seamus

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Peak Practice	Leon	Episode: "Playing God"
2001	Doctors	Lee Lindsay	Episode: "Sins of the Brother"
2003	Sweet Medicine	Ben Campbell	Episode 2
2004	Doctors	Danny	Episode: "Rabbit in the Headlights"
2005	Born and Bred	Humphrey 'Bogie' Locke	Episode: "Community Spirits"
2006	To Kill a Burglar: The Tony Martin Story	Fred Barras	Television film
2007–2008	Skins	Chris Miles	19 episodes
2008	Doctor Who	Cline	Episode: "The Doctor's Daughter"
	Merlin	William	Episode: "The Moment of Truth"
2010	This Is England '86	Higgy	Mini-series; 3 episodes
	Devil in the Fog	George Treet / George Dexter	Mini-series; 2 episodes
2011–2019	Game of Thrones	Gendry Baratheon	24 episodes
2011	The Fades	John	Mini-series; 4 episodes
	Moving On	Kieran Murphy	Episode: "The Poetry of Silence"
2012	Murder	Stefan	Mini-series; episode: "Joint Enterprise"
	Accused	Martin Cormack	Episode: "Mo's Story"
2013	Southcliffe	Chris Cooper	Mini-series; 3 episodes
2014	New Worlds	Ned Hawkins	Mini-series; 4 episodes
2015	The Gamechangers	Jamie King	One-off docudrama
	This Is England '90	Higgy	Mini-series; 3 episodes
2016	Ellen	Jason	Television film
	Retribution / One of Us	Rob Elliot	Mini-series; 4 episodes
2018–2019	Deep State	Harry Clarke	16 episodes
2020	Adult Material	Rich	4 episodes
2021	Love, Death & Robots	Laird (voice)	Episode: "The Tall Grass"
2022	Pieces of Her	Nick	Main cast. Mini-series; 7 episodes
	The Love Box in Your Living Room	(unknown)	Television film
2024	Showtrial	DI Miles Southgate	5 episodes
	Get Millie Black	Luke Holborn	Mini-series; 5 episodes
2025	Toxic Town	Derek Mahon	Mini-series; 4 episodes

Radio

Year	Title	Role	Station
2009	Black Hearts in Battersea	Simon	BBC Radio 4
2010	Once Upon a Time	Steven	BBC Radio 4
	The Rain Maker	Son	BBC Radio 4
2013	Saturday Night and Sunday Morning	Arthur Seaton	BBC Radio 4
2016	The Beach (Book at Bedtime)	Narrator	BBC Radio 4
	Waiting for the Boatman	Cecco	BBC Radio 4

Voiceover work

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	Clearasil 'Lipstick' advert
2011	Sky One
2015–2023	Final Fantasy XIV	Ardbert, Arenvald Lentinus, Oschon
2022	Xenoblade Chronicles 3	Other	English version