VANITY FAIR – Call it auspicious, to sit down with a former queen on the eve of a nail-biting election. It was a clear December morning in London, a day before Britons cast their fate (and Brexit’s) with Boris Johnson, and the Protector of the Realm—to use one of Emilia Clarke’s many titles on Game of Thrones—was assessing the political landscape. “Is it a full moon?” the actor said, interest piqued. (An Instagram astrologer had told me so.) “Maybe that will kick the . . . —no,” she interrupted herself with a weary laugh. “It will just soften the patriarchy ever so lightly.”

Clarke, whose now-departed character was known to scorch entire neighborhoods with one dragonic exhale, leads with a comparatively light hand. In a November post about the UK’s voter-registration deadline, she delivered a message (“You have a voice. Use it!”) with a silent procession of cue cards. Last March, when she first revealed her tumultuous medical history—a pair of brain aneurysms in the show’s early days—she did so with a lyrical, unsparing essay on the New Yorker’s website. She isn’t much for peddling influence; instead, she reps sweatshirts for Same You, the charity she founded to support neurorehabilitation for young patients. After the GOT series finale and its torrent of press, she has kept things earnest and under-the-radar—however much someone with 26 million followers can slip into incognito mode.

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER – The ‘Game of Thrones’ star will appear as Nina in Jamie Lloyd’s production of the classic Anton Chekhov play, opening in March 2020.

Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke will return to the London stage, making her West End debut as Nina in Anya Reiss’ modern adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, with Jamie Lloyd directing.

Chekhov’s drama is set in the 19th century Russian countryside with a cast of characters dissatisfied with their lives. The character Nina is a hopeless romantic desperate for fame and a way out.

No word on casting for the other main roles in The Seagull adaptation at The Playhouse Theater, which is set to run from March 11 to May 30 next year. Lloyd, whose company brought Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, starring Tom Hiddleston, to Broadway, promises a 21st century take on Chekhov’s classic about ambition, love, loneliness and fame.

The Playhouse Theater will also host Jessica Chastain, making her own West End theater debut with a performance in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, also being produced by the Jamie Lloyd Company. James McAvoy currently is starring at the venue through Feb. 29 in a well-reviewed production of Martin Crimp’s new adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac.

Clarke played Daenerys Targaryen on HBO’s Game of Thrones, which wrapped up its eighth and final season in 2019. She also appeared in Solo: A Star Wars Story and Last Christmas. Clarke made her Broadway debut in 2013 in a short-lived stage adaptation of Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

Back on Monday (December 02) Emilia attended The Fashion Awards 2019 held at Royal Albert Hall.

For the event she wore Schiaparelli Fall 2019 Couture Dress in yellow with Jimmy Choo shoes and William & Son and Moussaieff jewelry (thanks to Emilia Clarke Closet for the infos!)

Several photos from the evening, including Emilia presenting an award and in the backstage, have now been added to the gallery. Thanks to Emily for helping me with some!!

THE OBSERVER – Emilia Clarke had a headache. It was 2011, just before Valentine’s Day and just after she’d wrapped on the first series of Game of Thrones, playing Daenerys Targaryen, Breaker of Chains, Mother of Dragons. She didn’t yet know, as she crawled into the locker room of her local gym in north London and vomited bile into the toilet, that Game of Thrones would run for seven further seasons, break Emmy-award records for most wins for a scripted television series and for a drama, be named one of the greatest TV shows of all time, and quickly come to define her. But there was much she didn’t know.

She didn’t know that at 24 she had suffered a life-threatening stroke, a subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) caused by bleeding into the space surrounding the brain. She didn’t know, as she lay on the floor repeating lines from Game of Thrones in order to test her memory, that a third of SAH patients die immediately, or that those who survive require urgent treatment to avoid a second, often fatal bleed. She didn’t know there was another swollen blood vessel in her brain, which had doubled in size by the time she finished filming season three. She didn’t know that one day, eight years later, over biscuits on her pink sofa, she would be smiling with the dark realisation that her stroke was one of the best things that could have happened to her.

Her pink sofa is in her pink house, which is also green and blue and muted shades of rust, and has a secret bar hidden in a courtyard shed, and an outdoor screening room heated by a wood-burning stove. To walk into her living room, where one corner is painted with a symbol relating to her mum, another to her late dad, and a third with a meaningful dragon, is to enter the cosiest corner of Clarke’s mind. By the stairs, horsehair is visible in the plaster; the walls are stripped back to the bone. She shows me round with a raw sort of glee, a sense that her comfort and safety are bound into the details: the friends’ art on the walls, the “single girl’s” bedroom. She moved in after Game of Thrones; in this and many ways, her life can be cleanly dissected into before and after.

Before, Clarke, now 33, who grew up in Oxfordshire, had appeared in a single episode of the daytime soap Doctors. She was ambitious, optimistic and relentlessly cheerful. After, after Game of Thrones, and the death of her father, which shook her family, as did her life-threatening stroke, she is sitting on her pink sofa and contemplating a decade that changed her.

Back on Tuesday (November 14) Emilia attended the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and The Hollywood Reporter celebration of the 2020 Golden Globe Awards Season and unveiling of the Golden Globe ambassadors at Catch in West Hollywood (California).

She looked gorgeous wearing a Roland Mouret spring 2020 dress with Christian Louboutin nosy snake print pumps in silver (thanks to Emilia Clarke Closet for the infos!).

Several photos from the night have now been added to the gallery, enjoy!

WONDERLAND – Having starred as the imperious lead in the biggest show of all time, it’s safe to say Emilia Clarke’s star has already risen. Despite the success of her turn as Game of Thrones’ “mother of dragons”, Daenerys Targaryen, Clarke is still somewhat at the genesis of her acting career. Having dedicated the best part of a decade to George R.R Martin’s sprawling masterpiece, the actor now finds herself almost starting again, namely with the Emma Thompson-written seasonal offering: Last Christmas. Here, she chats to Wonderland about social media, dealing with two brain haemorrhages, and life beyond the series.