Gwendoline Christie
Gwendoline Christie
Gwendoline Christieis an English actress and model. She is known for portraying the warrior Brienne of Tarth in the HBO fantasy-drama series Game of Thrones and playing Captain Phasma in Star Wars: The Force Awakens...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth28 October 1978
CitySussex, England
aspects hard remove
It's very hard as a tall woman to remove your deliberately pronounced feminine aspects and look more masculine.
quite
I quite like looking mucky; it's quite nice not having to care about how you look.
films saw terry
Terry Gilliam is someone I'd always deeply admired. I saw his films when I was a child.
brought messages women
Occasionally I get messages from women saying that I've brought them some joy, and that's unbelievably thrilling.
female harold lived married outside prolific relationship sir virginia
Vita Sackville-West is one of my favorite female icons. She was a writer and a prolific gardener, but she also had a relationship with Virginia Woolf, and she was married to Sir Harold Nicolson. She was a woman who lived outside of norms.
true-love love-is encounters
Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.
want attractive accepting
As a woman, we all want to feel attractive. We all want to feel that we're making the very best of ourselves so we can accept ourselves.
intelligent feet bigs
Everyone has something that defines them, whether they're wildly intelligent or whether they have really big feet.
laughing looks world
They told me I would find it difficult to find work because of the way that I look and they weren't wrong. [laughs] I thought, "Well, I'll prove you wrong" because I genuinely believed that the world was a more diverse place than they perhaps viewed it to be.
running yoga book
I read the books and I really, really wanted to play the part. I started kundalini yoga, kickboxing and running, and completely changed my diet. I felt I wanted to undergo what was necessary for the part. I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes and people’s expectations of me as an actress.
interest again-and-again happens
I don't really have any interest in playing the same part again and again. Let's just keep everything crossed that doesn't happen.
fashion book years
I never wanted to be a fashion designer, although there is a book somewhere of fashion design I did for a collection when I was seven years old. I always wanted to be an actor.
nice years feet
I'm certainly really rather tall at 6 foot 3, and I've been this way since I was 14, but for years, women who are even 5 foot 10 have come up to me in the street and said, 'Oh, it's so nice to see a woman who is taller than me. I've always felt like a giant.
gymnastics squad expression
I did rhythmic gymnastics and I absolutely adored it. I was in the squad for Sussex. I wasn't stupendous, but it was something that I was good at and I really loved the combination of discipline and expression. That, to me, was just dreamy.