10 Things You Didn't Know About Maisie Williams

2. She Didn't Sit Her GCSEs

Williams is sharp. She's clearly an intelligent individual with a range of opinions on various topics that have made her a very respected young woman. She feels passionately about women's rights and has protested for animal rights too. However, while she may be smart, she left school with a grand total of zero GCSEs (end of high school qualifications for the US readers) in order to take her part on Thrones. She dropped out of school at 14, and her mother Hilary explained the decision to the Daily Mail in 2014: "Maisie was given a lot of opportunities that we didn€™t feel we could turn down to concentrate on education. It wasn€™t a snap decision. It came after a series of events that made us think: Are we really going to say, €œNo, Maisie, you need to be in school doing your exams€ when somebody is offering the chance to travel the world and act in all these wonderful things? I€™m not saying you don€™t need an education. My eldest son went to university and got his degree, and that worked for him. But you have to look at each case individually. You can always go back and get your education and these opportunities aren€™t going to be there for ever."