Emilia Clarke Admits Not Winning an Emmy for “Game of Thrones” Was &x27;Really Significant&x27; and Made Her Feel Like &x27;Old News&x27; Virginia ChamleeFri, May 29, 2026 at 9:02 PM UTC 0 Emilia ClarkeCredit: Kristina Bumphrey/Variety via Getty; Helen Sloan/HBO Emilia Clarke is opening up about never winning an Emmy for her role on Game of Thrones Clarke played Daenerys Targaryen on the fantasy drama from 2011 to 2019 In a new interview, she spoke about feeling like "old news" once the show had wrapped Emilia Clarke is opening up about never winning an Emmy during her time on the hit HBO seri...
Emilia Clarke Admits Not Winning an Emmy for “Game of Thrones” Was 'Really Significant' and Made Her Feel Like 'Old News'
Virginia ChamleeFri, May 29, 2026 at 9:02 PM UTC
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Emilia Clarke is opening up about never winning an Emmy for her role on Game of Thrones
Clarke played Daenerys Targaryen on the fantasy drama from 2011 to 2019
In a new interview, she spoke about feeling like "old news" once the show had wrapped
Emilia Clarke is opening up about never winning an Emmy during her time on the hit HBO seriesGame of Thrones, despite being nominated four times.
The 39-year-old actress, who played Daenerys Targaryen on the fantasy drama from 2011 to 2019, said in an interview with Variety, “I'm embarrassed to admit that not winning an Emmy was a really significant thing."
Speaking to the outlet, she recalled looking around the Microsoft Theater in her final Emmy show after the show had wrapped and thinking, “Everyone's over ‘Game of Thrones' now — you're old news.”
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Clarke survived two brain hemorrhages during her time on Game of Thrones, saying in a recent interview that she believed she had “cheated death.”
“I was just convinced that I had cheated death and I was meant to die,” Clarke said in an appearance on the How To Fail with Elizabeth Day podcast. “Every day, that's all I could think about.”
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The actress recounted suffering her first brain hemorrhage shortly after wrapping the show's first season, saying she had been stressed following the sudden changes in her life and career when she collapsed during a workout at a London gym.
“The closest thing to describe it is imagine an elastic band just snapping around your brain,” she said. “This insane pressure.”
Clarke recalled crawling to the bathroom and vomiting from the pain before realizing something was seriously wrong. “In that moment, I knew I was being brain-damaged,” she said.
Clarke later suffered a second aneurysm while living in New York and performing in a Broadway play. Doctors had been monitoring the aneurysm through regular scans after spotting it during treatment for the first hemorrhage.
The actress founded the brain injury recovery charity SameYou with her mother, Jennifer, in 2019.
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