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BRANDON STARK

Brandon, or Bran as he’s also known, is a young boy and the second son of Eddard and Catelyn Stark. He is a keen climber and can regularly be seen scaling the walls of Winterfell. However, he ends up in the wrong place at the wrong time, spotting the visiting Queen Cersei and her brother Jaime having sex. When he is discovered, Jaime pushes him from the window.

He survives, but is in a coma. Unbeknown to him, his direwolf thwarts an assassination attempt on his life while he is bedridden. While in the coma, Bran has visions featuring a three-eyed crow.

When he wakes up from the coma, he discovers he is a cripple, but is given the chance to continue riding thanks to a contraption devised by Tyrion Lannister. During one of his rides, he is ambushed by a group of wildings. They are all killed by Robb and Theon, bar a woman called Osha. She is taken back to Winterfell as prisoner, but eventually Osha bonds with Bran over his dream. He realises that he can see through the eyes of his direwolf.

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When they flee Winterfell following Theon’s betrayal, they eventually end up in the Haunted Forest in search of the three-eyed crow. He meets the Children of the Forest, and Bran learns about his gift. He can see things from the past by looking through the weirwoods, but his gift has yet to be fully realised.

Bran Stark is played by Isaac Hempstead-Wright, a young 13-year-old actor hailing from England. His other screen credit is playing Tom in the 2011 British horror The Awakening.

He says about being cast in the role, ‘It was just an accident really. I go to a small acting group, and I heard Game of Thrones were doing a huge casting and so I went to the audition. I hadn’t done an audition like this before.’

He watches it with his family, but admits there are some scenes that leave him a bit embarrassed to watch.