The women of Game of Thrones are an intriguing lot. Here is a snapshot of some of the returning and new female characters as they head into the dangerous Season 2.
The hardened Queen Cersei (Lena Headey) burns with "anger because she wasn't born a man," Headey says. She envies her brothers, Jaime and Tyrion, "because they're so respected because they're guys." The Lannister ruler is good at letting others know she is powerful, but she is losing control of son Joffrey, whom she guided to the Iron Throne. "Cersei is in a powerful seat, but it's slipping away very dangerously from her. She doesn't face a lot of her truths. She's put her power in Joffrey and Joffrey is misusing it greatly, and she's utterly terrified for her own son."
The descendant of a once-ruling clan, starts as a submissive teen used by her power-hungry brother to establish an alliance with a nomadic tribe of horsemen, the Dothraki. Daenerys learns the ways of power as she has to endure the deaths of her newborn son and her husband.
"You watch the growth of this young girl blossoming into a strong young woman. When we finish Season 1, you see her in almost a spiritual level. In Season 2, there's a little bit of a crush back down to Earth when you see her again. (But) she is developing a much more iron core," Clarke says. "She has Targaryen blood running through her and they're very fierce people."
Ned's widow delays her grieving to console son Robb, the self-proclaimed King in the North, after her husband is beheaded. She then serves as his envoy to other armies, seeking to unify against the ruling Lannisters.Her personal mission is to rescue her two daughters, whom she believes are in the hands of the rival Lannisters, and then have her vengeance.
"She has children to guide and look after, so she cannot be seen to break down and indulge in her own grief. She has to be strong for her family. But at the end of Season 1, when she says, 'We will have revenge,' she means it," Fairley says.
Turner says her character has grown up since the beginning, when she was smitten with the cruel and impulsive Joffrey and the idea of being a princess. Much changed over the course of the season, especially after the young teen watched Joffrey order her father's beheading.
"She was very vulnerable and naive, and now she's independent and has to survive in this world. And I think that's a lot of pressure for a 13-year-old girl to have on her shoulders," Turner says. Moving forward, "One of the main challenges is the mental and physical torture she's going to get from the Lannisters and all the people around her," she says. "She has to grow up even more than she did."
Sansa's younger sister, on the run from the Lannisters and disguised as a boy, is more comfortable wielding her sword, Needle, than dressing up or thinking about life as a princess.
"She's a complete tomboy. She doesn't do what people expect her to do. ... I think she's got that warrior thing about her," Williams says. "She's quite naive in a sense. She doesn't realize sword fighting is dangerous and kills people. It just looks cool and fun."
Now she's on the run. "She could pretty much die at any minute — someone could realize who she is — so she's trying to go on as if everything is normal, but it's really not. Behind closed doors, she's freaking out a bit."
The red priestess advises Robert Baratheon's brother, Stannis, as he seeks the Iron Throne. "She's extremely powerful and charismatic and, at the same time, sexy and a little bit sinister," executive producer David Benioff says. "She's a prophet who actually seems to have genuine powers of prophecy."
Where you've seen her: As wife to Tom Cruise's doomed Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg in 2008's Valkyrie.
Margaery is the wife of Baratheon brother Renly, who also makes claim to the crown. "Margaery Tyrell is similar to Cersei on the surface in some ways. She comes from a very wealthy famly. She's very beautiful, smart and ambitious," executive producer D.B. Weiss says. "One of things most interesting things for us going forward is how somebody who has so many surface similarities to another character ends up being such a radically different person."
Where you've seen her: As Queen Anne Boleyn in TV's The Tudors.
This warrior serves as one of Renly's protectors. "Brienne is a woman who is as good at killing as pretty much any of the men in the story. She's a great fighter and is stronger than the typical male by far," Benioff says. "She has to try to overcome natural prejudices. People see this very tall woman in armor and she's a laughingstock and has had to deal with that her entire life. She's really the first female knight."
Where you've seen her: In Heath Ledger's final film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
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