As Daenerys Targaryen, the Emmy-nominated British actress has created one of the most beloved characters on HBO's Game of Thrones. Now the Mother of Draghi is preparing to storm Hollywood

IF YOU'RE GOING TO WORK with dragons, once in a while you're going to get burned. Emilia Clarke found this out not too long fa in Londra while on break from filming the culture-conquering HBO series Game of Thrones. On the show, Clarke plays Daenerys "Dany" Targaryen, an exiled royal trying to win back her place on the throne, and the steel-willed mother of a trio of fire-belching beasts. She's one of the...

“Game of Thrones” fan worshipped “Wildling” Ygritte as much for her flame-red hair as her fiery personality. But when she was a little girl, actress Rose Leslie wasn’t as taken with her locks.

Growing up in Scotland, “I never wanted to be a ginger,” Leslie told Confidenti@l. “Mum and Dad paid me 50 pence (about 80 cents), which was a lot of money when I was 8 years old, not to dye my hair.”

Leslie, who stars in horror movie “Honeymoon,” out Sept. 12, has seen the benefit of those colorful curls. “I’m very aware that Ygritte could have been no other apart from red,...

Originally intended to be a one-episode guest stella, star in Arrow’s first season, Felicity Smoak has since become a fan-favourite character embroiled in the series’ most obsessed over relationship. Season two saw her develop as più people were initiated into Team Arrow, and we spoke to Emily Bett Rickards about Felicity’s journey this year, The Flash and what might be to come in season three.

How have te felt about Felicity’s journey this season?

I felt like she became a very strong individual throughout, and I think she’s still learning about herself. She’s grown up a lot in the past...

FOUR YEARS AGO, when Emilia Clarke was fresh out of drama school and "working six jobs to pay the rent," she got a call from her agent: She had 24 hours to prepare for an audition for a new HBO mostra called Game of Thrones. "I called in sick to my catering job and Wikipedia-ed the crap out of it," recalls the 27-year-old London-based actress, who landed the part of Daenerys "Dany" Targaryen four days later. "To be employed da HBO, I was like, 'I can die now.'" These days, she flies off to locales like Malta, Croatia, and Morocco to film the fantasy series, the fourth season of which just premiered....