Game Of Thrones: 10 Criminally Overlooked Performances

3. Liam Cunningham As Davos Seaworth

For a show as rampantly immoral as Game of Thrones, people often overlook how much it needs a moral compass. When Ned Stark was unceremoniously beheaded in season 1, a gap needed to be filled. Enter Davos Seaworth, a man with Ned's integrity and steadfastness, but with the cunning of a smuggler to back it up. Liam Cunningham is put in a place perfect for some ripe drama: he has to object to every step Stannis takes closer and closer to being the complete thrall of Lady Melisandre and the Red God. His performance, while not the most nuanced in the series, is one that marks the show's gradual turn away from the more highborn characters to have an equal emphasis on the low - Davos, while a wily smuggler, has an a poor man's honesty about him, a man who has come from nothing but now finds himself advising kings. Why is this Performance Overlooked? This straight-laced performance is mostly overlooked because it is one of the less showy. Not at all a player in the titular Game of Thrones, Davos is generally relegated to being a voice of reason for Stannis throughout the second season, or acting terrified at the various magic acts of Melisandre. His arc in the third is much stronger, but often upstaged by the mystical weirdness Melisandre brings to the table.