| Jméno: | Kit Harington |
| Datum narození: | 1986-12-26 |
| Místo narození: | Worcester, Worcestershire, England, UK |
| Výška: | 1.73 m |
| IMDb ID: | nm3229685 |
Christopher Catesby "Kit" Harington (narozen 26. prosince 1986) je anglický herec. Je známý svou rolí Jona Snowa ve fantasy seriálu HBO Hra o trůny (2011-2019), za kterou získal nominace na Zlatý glóbus a dvě ceny Primetime Emmy. Harington vystudoval Royal Central School of Speech and Drama a jako profesionální herec debutoval v roce 2009 hlavní rolí Alberta Narracotta ve hře War Horse na West Endu. V roce 2017 vytvořil, produkoval a hrál roli Roberta Catesbyho v dramatickém seriálu BBC Gunpowder. Mezi jeho filmové role patří historický romantický film Pompeje (2014), dobové drama Testament of Youth (2014) a film Marvel Cinematic Universe Eternals (2021) a hlasová role ve druhém a třetím filmu filmové série Jak vycvičit draka (2014-2019).
- Used to work in a book store where he often had to lift heavy copies of the ''A Song Of Ice and Fire'' series and grew to dislike George RR Martin as a result.
- Did not know his real name was Christopher until he was 11.
- His paternal eight times great-grandfather was King Charles II of England. Charles II was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1660 to 1685, as well as King of Scotland from 1649 to 1651. Actors Dacre Montgomery and Rose Leslie are also descended from Charles II, and are therefore KIt's distant cousins.
- He broke his ankle in 2012 when he was locked out of his apartment building in London and fell while trying to climb to his flat. During Season 3 of Hra o trůny (2011) the film crew had to figure out how to shoot around the injury, including the use of stand-ins in "Jon Snow wigs". Harington felt so guilty that he bought the production manager a bottle of whiskey.
- Is said to be related to, though is not a direct descendant of, Sir John Harington, the inventor of the flush toilet.
- Has natural dark brown hair. He had to dye it black for the role of Jon Snow.
- Said he's never had long hair before Hra o trůny (2011) and he actually had to wear a wig in the first season. Harington intends to cut his hair short again after the series is complete.
- Has a fear of spiders, needles, and flying. He gets around by car or train.
- On Pompeje (2014), Kit Harington undertook a heavy 'bulking' regime and a diet of 3000 calories a day to put on 2 stone of weight in 5 weeks. He then went on a very severe diet and 'cutting' regime for 4 weeks to cut back from 12 stone to 10 stone acquiring intense muscle definition in the process.
- Is a horror movie buff with some of his favorites being Osvícení (1980), Kruh (2002), The Wicker Man (1973), and the Scream franchise.
- He wore a wig for filming the Hra o trůny (2011) pilot but grew his hair out for the rest of the first season.
- Good friends with Hra o trůny (2011) co-stars Richard Madden, Alfie Allen, John Bradley Rose Leslie and Emilia Clarke.
- In September 2017 he got engaged to Rose Leslie (who played Ygritte in Game of Thrones). The couple met on the set of Game of Thrones show when they played onscreen lovers, and now are getting married in real life.
- Became a father for the first time at age 34 when his wife Rose Leslie gave birth to a boy in February 2021.
- He was honored with Actor of the Year at the Young Hollywood Awards 2013.
- Became friends with singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran after both had inadvertently met while using adjacent urinals in the men's room.
- Wanted to be a cameraman, a war correspondent and a journalist when he was young.
- Is the fifth great-grandson of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, who served as Britain's Secretary of War at the turn of the 19th century, and is a nephew of a baronet; the family is listed in Burke's Peerage.
- Is a descendant on his mother's side of Robert Catesby, the character he played in the drama he created and produced, Gunpowder (2017).
- Once got into a fight at a McDonald's restaurant because a guy was hitting on the girl he was with.
- Sees himself first and foremost as a theatre trained actor.
- Is a huge David Lynch fan.
- Kit's recent ancestry is English, as well as Welsh, Scottish, Irish, and Dutch. His distant roots also include German, French, and Spanish, and, going back to the 1400s and 1500s, he also has remote Italian, Polish, Lithuanian, Austrian, and Danish ancestry. He is from a prominent family, and descends from many Earls, Baronets, Peers, Dukes, and Viscounts. Many of Kit's mother's ancestors lived in India and South Africa as part of British colonialism and Dutch settlements. Through his mother's Dutch ancestry, Kit descends from Count Jacob van Reenen.
- Favorite movies are 25. hodina (2002), Romeo a Julie (1996), Jurský park (1993), Nelítostný souboj (1995), Nekdo to rád horké (1959), and If.... (1968).
- His mother, Deborah Jane (Catesby), is a playwright and artist, and his father, David Richard Harington, is a retired businessman.
- Landed the role of Albert Narracott in the play War Horse while still at drama school.
- Expecting his first child with wife Rose Leslie; confirmed in the September issue of Make Magazine (September 2020).
- Kit's maternal great-grandfather, Thomas Charles Cann Evans, who was born in Budleigh Salterton, Devonshire, England, was a Major in the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps. Thomas's wife, Kit's maternal great-grandmother Isabel Dorothy Joyce Dennys, was an artist known professionally as Joyce Dennys. She was born in Murree, India, now Pakistan, to a European family.
- Brother of John Catesby Harington.
- Attended the Central School of Speech and Drama.
- His paternal grandfather, John Charles Dundas Harington, was born in Simla, India, and his paternal grandmother, Lavender Cecilia Denny, was born in Toronto, Canada, both of English parentage.
