English actress

Gwendoline Christie

Gwendoline Tracey Philippa Christie is an English actress. She is known for portraying Brienne of Tarth in the HBO fantasy-drama series Game of Thrones (2012–2019), and the First Order stormtrooper Captain Phasma in the films Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) and Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017). For the former, she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2019. Christie has since appeared in the Netflix fantasy series The Sandman and Wednesday, and the Apple TV+ sci-fi thriller series Severance (2025), for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series nomination in 2025.

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1978

October 28

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1978 Born

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97 Roman emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.
306 Maxentius is proclaimed Roman emperor.
312 Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman emperor in the West.
969 The Byzantine Empire recovers Antioch from Arab rule.

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The world in 1978

When Gwendoline arrived

april 14 Tbilisi demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
april 17 Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking the Saur Revolution in Afghanistan.
april 27 John Ehrlichman, a former aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon, is released from the Federal Correctional Institution, Safford, Arizona, after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
april 27 The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the following morning with the murder of Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan and the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

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Bill Gates 1955– American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Microsoft Auguste Escoffier 1846–1935 French chef and author (born 1846) Christopher Kelk Ingold 1893– British chemist (died 1970) Hans Speidel 1897– German general (died 1984) Jarrett Jack 1983– American basketball player Kanō Jigorō 1860–1938 Japanese founder of judo (born 1860) Kevin Macdonald 1967– Scottish director, producer, and screenwriter Lenny Wilkens 1937– American basketball player and coach (died 2025) Lucy Bronze 1991– English footballer

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Anamaria Marinca 1978– Romanian-English actress Andrew Rannells 1978– American actor and singer Ariel Pink 1978– American singer-songwriter Chad Johnson 1978– American football player Eiður Guðjohnsen 1978– Icelandic footballer Faye White 1978– English footballer Frederic Leclercq 1978– French heavy metal musician Hayley Wickenheiser 1978– Canadian ice hockey player Jamaal Magloire 1978– Canadian basketball player and coach

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