He spent part of his early career living with rats.
Good training for Game of Thrones? Maybe. But in his early days as a struggling actor, Dinklage was more interested in building a real career than taking parts that exploited him for his size, so he turned down quite a few roles. He and some friends shared an apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, long before it became the expensive hipster neighborhood it is now. They lived under the bridge, which made the apartment shake like Alvy Singer’s in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. They didn’t have heat, because the oven was filled with rats. Yes, rats.
4. Young Kit Harington And As Jon Snow (In GoT)
He didn’t know his real name until he was 11.
Kit chatted about his name with Interview in 2013, saying, “I was called Kit from day one, really. I only found out my name was Christopher when I was 11.”
He’s not the only artist in his family.
Kit’s mom is an artist who teaches creative writing, and she was once a playwright. Of his parents’ support, he told Interview, “When I started sharing a keen interest in drama and the theater, instead of steering me away from it, they encouraged me to see plays, and think about drama school.”