15 WORST Performances In Game Of Thrones
10. Indira Varma - Ellaria Sand
Indira Varma is a good actress and this wasn't really her fault. The trouble with Ellaria Sand is that, like with everything else involving Dorne, the writing was just awful, meaning that Ellaria was nearly impossible to salvage.
While Varma was OK in season four, her performance went downhill from season five onwards. Varma failed to find enough depth within Ellaria and frankly her performance was just incredibly irritating. It was all anger and no nuance.
As a result, Ellaria was an entirely detestable character, which contrasts with most of the show's other villainous characters, who have generally been sympathetic and understandable at least to some degree.
Therefore, her pain at losing Oberyn, her lover, never came through and viewers were never able to connect with her and her motivations for revenge against the Lannisters. Still, the writing was always going to make it hard to make Ellaria work.
Ultimately, Indira Varma was one of a few strong actors, including some of the others on this list, who were completely wasted in Game of Thrones.