Game Of Thrones: 10 Criminally Overlooked Performances

2. Iain Glen As Jorah Mormont

This is yet another plotline wherein a supporting performance finds itself upstaged by both action and magic, but one cannot understate the importance Jorah Mormont has to the ensemble of Game of Thrones. At first, his role is fairly straightforward - to provide the Targaryen siblings a knight to confide in €“ but once Daenerys comes to power, his role changes in both blatant and subtle ways. A veteran stage actor with a voice sounding like young Alec Guinness, Iain Glen has a gravitas that most actors in Game of Thrones share, but his portrayal of this knight who has fallen from grace is more rough-around-the-edges than any old experienced mentor figure. Glen plays the role as a man who would like to be honourable, but cannot quite contain his dishonourable feelings - cynicism, dishonesty, bitterness and lust are all boiling beneath the surface of this man who acts as noble and trustworthy as he can, who still manages to prove to the audience why Daenerys is a queen worth fighting for. Why is this Performance Overlooked? This is the interesting henchman's dilemma €“ while his arc is almost as compelling as the main plot of Daenerys' storyline, and often more interesting than some of her subplots, he is overlooked because his personal feelings have to be smothered for the sake of doing his duty, meaning the performance often goes unnoticed.