Kit Harington Profile

Kit Harington is an English actor best known for her role as Jon Snow in HBO’s epic fantasy television series Game of Thrones which earned him international acclaim and several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 2019 and two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2016 and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2019.

Kit Harington Education

From 1992 to 1998, Harington attended Southfield Primary School. His family relocated to Worcestershire when he was 11 years old, and he attended Chantry High School in Martley until 2003. When he was 14, he became interested in acting after seeing a production of Waiting for Godot, and he went on to perform in several school productions. He studied Drama and Theatre at Worcester Sixth Form College (2003–05).

When he was 17, he was inspired to attend drama school after seeing Ben Whishaw’s performance as Hamlet in 2004. Harington returned to London when he was eighteen years old, after graduating from Sixth Form, and later that year attended the Central School of Speech and Drama. Harington returned to London when he was eighteen years old, after graduating from Sixth Form, and later that year enrolled at the Central School of Speech and Drama, where he graduated in 2008.

Kit Harington Age

Harington is 35 years old as of 2021. He was born Christopher Catesby “Kit” Harington on 26 December 1986 in Acton, London, United Kingdom. He celebrates his birthday on December 26.

Kit Harington Height

Harington stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m).

Kit Harington Family

Harington is the son of Deborah Jane (Catesby), a former playwright, and Sir David Harington, 15th Baronet, a businessman. Christopher Catesby Harington is his full name; his mother named him after Christopher Marlowe, whose first name was shortened to Kit, a name Harington prefers. He didn’t discover his full name until he was eleven years old. Sir Nicholas John Harington, the 14th Baronet, was Harington’s uncle, and Sir Richard Harington, the 12th Baronet, was his patrilineal great-grandfather.

Quick Facts About Harington

The Haringtons are an ancient family who used to spell their surname Haverington and got their name from their estate, a lordship in Cumberland. Charles II of England was Harington’s eighth-great-grandfather through his paternal grandmother, Lavender Cecilia Denny. Harington is also a descendant of Scottish politician Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, through his father.

Kit Harington Wife

In 2011, Harington began dating his Game of Thrones co-star Rose Leslie. On September 27, 2017, they announced their engagement in The Times’ ‘Forthcoming Marriages’ section. The couple married on June 23, 2018, at Rayne Parish Church in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Leslie posed for a magazine photoshoot while visibly pregnant in September 2020. They had a son, who was first seen in February 2021.

Kit Harington Net Worth

Harington has an estimated net worth of $14 million.

Kit Harington Rehab

Multiple sources exclusively confirmed to Page Six that Harington secretly checked into luxury rehab for stress and alcohol use ahead of the show’s finale, which “really hit him hard.” He’s been at the luxury Connecticut health retreat Privé-Swiss for nearly a month, arriving just weeks before the show’s finale on May 19, according to Page Six.

Kit Harington House

Harington and Leslie have received permission to renovate their moated Grade II listed home. The couple has received permission to build a new kitchen and install a new bathtub. A wood-burning stove and a “showpiece central island” will be featured in the new theatrical kitchen.

They are relocating their current kitchen from the north end of the house to a 1960s-era extension. This portion of the renovations is expected to cost around £100,000. Harington and Rose also intend to replace the boiler, radiators, and pipes. They also intend to rip up the floorboards in order to install new piping for their new Victorian-style bath in their master bedroom.

The project’s total cost is expected to exceed £500,000. The estate is set on eight acres and includes a swimming pool, tennis court, stables, a croquet lawn, and a banqueting hall. The latest renovations, according to planning documents submitted to Babergh District Council, are “part of an ongoing program of sensitive works to the house and grounds.”

Kit Harington Eternals

Harington played Dane Whitman, a human who works as a history professor at the Natural History Museum in London and is dating Sersi. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige announced in April 2018 that a film based on the Eternals was in the works, with Ryan and Kaz Firpo hired to write the script in May.

Zhao was set to direct the film by late September and was given significant creative freedom, resulting in more on-location filming than previous MCU films. Zhao rewrote the screenplay, which Burleigh was later said to have contributed to as well. Principal photography took place at Pinewood Studios from July 2019 to February 2020, as well as on location in London and Oxford, England, and on the Canary Islands.

Eternals premiered in Los Angeles on October 18, 2021, and was released theatrically in the United States on November 5, 2021, in RealD 3D, Monoscopic 2D, and 4DX as part of the MCU’s Phase Four. The film has earned more than $337 million worldwide. Critics gave it mixed reviews, praising its themes and visuals but criticizing its exposition, pacing, runtime, and lack of character development.

Kit Harington Marvel

Harington has been cast as Dane Whitman in the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe film Eternals, which will be released in November 2021. The franchise has been commercially successful and has received generally positive feedback. Other film and television studios have attempted to create similar shared universes with comic book character adaptations. Several themed attractions, an art exhibit, two television specials, guidebooks for each film, multiple tie-in video games, and commercials have also been inspired by the MCU.

Kit Harington Game of Thrones

Following the success of War Horse, Harington auditioned for and was cast in his first television role as Jon Snow in Game of Thrones. The show premiered in 2011 to widespread critical acclaim and was quickly renewed for a second season by the network. The majority of Harington’s scenes were shot in Iceland and Northern Ireland. In April 2019, the eighth season of the show concluded its run. Game of Thrones is set on the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos, and it follows the power struggles between noble families as they vie for control of the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms.

Jon Snow is introduced as the illegitimate son of Ned Stark, the lord of Winterfell, an ancient fortress in the fictional continent of Westeros. Harington’s portrayal of Snow received critical acclaim. For the role, he was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television in 2012. Harington was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2016. In 2017, Harington reportedly became one of television’s highest-paid actors, earning £2 million per Game of Thrones episode.

Kit Harington Pompeii 

Harington had his first major lead role in a feature film when he played Milo in Pompeii. The film’s production began in 2013 and took place in and around Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Some scenes were also filmed in the actual city of Pompeii. In order to bulk up for the role, the film’s leading man, Kit Harington, underwent a rigorous training regimen.

“I wanted to do a body transformation for something—it was one of those processes that I had never really done before,” Harington explained. It became a source of obsession for me. I got to the point where I went to the gym three times a day, six days a week. I was starting to feel tired. So the trainer stepped in and said, ‘Look, you don’t know what you’re doing.’

Harington stated that he “I wanted to do a body transformation for something—it was one of those things I’d never done before… It became a source of obsession for me. I got to the point where I went to the gym three times a day, six days a week. I was starting to feel tired. So the trainer intervened, saying, ‘Look, you don’t have to go through all of this.’ This is now known as body dysmorphia.”

Kit Harington TV Shows

• TBA – Extrapolations
• 2021 – Friends: The Reunion
• 2021 – Modern Love
• 2020 – Criminal: UK
• 2019 – Saturday Night Live
• 2018 – Zog
• 2017 – Gunpowder
• 2015 – 7 Days in Hell
• 2011–2019 – Game of Thrones

Kit Harington Movies

• 2021 – Eternals
• 2019 – How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
• 2018 – The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
• 2016 – Brimstone
• 2015 – Spooks: The Greater Good
• 2014 – Pompeii
• 2014 – How to Train Your Dragon 2
• 2014 – Testament of Youth
• 2014 – Seventh Son
• 2012 – Silent Hill: Revelation