English actor Kit Harington is best known for playing Jon Snow in the hit fantasy epic Game of Thrones. Here are 11 things you never knew about the actor.
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The night before he attended his fateful Game of Thrones audition he got into a fight and turned up to the audition with a black eye
2. Video games aren’t his thing since when he was younger he would play the game Doom and the game would freak him out
3. He doesn’t like using public transport at all because he nearly always ends up getting lost
4. His favourite fictional character is Winston from George Orwell’s 1984
5. Before becoming an actor he used to work in a book store and would grow to hate lifting piles of heavy books; he would often have to lift copies of the A Song of Ice and Fire series and disliked author George R.R. Martin because of this
6. He’s a fan of horror movies and his favourites are The Shining and The Wicker Man (the original 1973 film)
7. Though some of his ancestors were aristocrats, he dislikes titles and the thought of using them
8. Unsurprisingly, he’s not too keen on Downton Abbey because it celebrates the class system
9. If he could play any other Game of Thrones character, it would be Tyrion because of the storylines he gets
10. His full name is Christopher Catesby ‘Kit’ Harrington and he was named after the renowned poet Christopher Marlowe
11. If he hadn’t taken up acting as a profession, he would have liked to have been a cameraman, a journalist or a war correspondent
