Kit Harington

Christopher Catesby Kit Harington is an English actor. He rose to prominence playing the role of Jon Snow in the awardwinning HBO television series Game of Thrones. Harington also played lead roles in the films Pompeii, Testament of Youth, and Spooks The Greater Good, as well as supporting roles in the films Silent Hill Revelation and Seventh Son. In 2014, Harington voiced the character of Eret in How to Train Your Dragon 2.

Harington was born in Acton, London, to Deborah Jane , a former playwright, and David Richard Harington, a businessman. His mother named him after Christopher Marlowe, whose first name was shortened to Kit, a name Harington prefers. Haringtons uncle is Sir Nicholas John Harington, 14th Baronet, and his paternal greatgrandfather was Sir Richard Harington, 12th Baronet. Through his paternal grandmother, Lavender Cecilia Denny, Haringtons eight times greatgrandfather was Charles II of England. Also, through his father, Harington descends from politician Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, bacon merchant T. A. Denny, clergyman Baptist Wriothesley Noel, merchant and politician Peter Baillie, peer William Legge, 4th Earl of Dartmouth and MP Sir William Molesworth, 6th Baronet.

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