Emilia Clarke Net Worth: Is She Richer Than Her Game of Thrones Co-Star Kit Harington?
Actress Emilia Clarke is widely known for playing Daenerys Targaryen a.k.a., Mother of Dragons on HBO’s Game of Thrones, from 2011 to 2019. She received critical appreciation for her performance on the show. The actress also appeared in romantic movies including Me Before You and Last Christmas and managed to impress the audience with her acting. This was despite the fact that the role was very different from how the audience was used to seeing her on-screen.
Clarke entered the Star Wars franchise with 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story, in which she appeared as, Qi’ra. She later went on to portray the character of Gi’ah in Marvel Cinematic Universe’s mini-series Secret Invasion alongside Samuel L. Jackson. She is one of the highest-paid actresses on television. Fans have always been curious about how much Emilia Clarke earned per episode on Game of Thrones. Let’s find out.
Emilia Clarke; the third richest cast member of Game of Thrones
Just Jared reports that Emilia Clarke is the third richest member of The Game of Thrones cast. The popularity and success of the show not only during its run time but also after it ended in 2019 has been very impressive. Even though the eighth and final season of the show was disappointing for fans, it still managed to garner the attention of the audience. The anticipation of what would happen next made the fans tune into watching the episodes until the very end.
According to Celebrity Net Worth.com, the actress earned near about $1.1 million per episode for the final two seasons of the show. The reports suggest that her total earnings from the entire run time of Game of Thrones were about $30 million before taxes. So, Clarke’s net worth comes to about $20 Million. She was appointed as the first-ever brand ambassador of Clinique in 2020 and earned about $750,000 for Secret Invasion.
If we talk about another fan-favorite character from the show; Jon Snow, portrayed by Kit Harington, he comes in at a paltry $14 Million. Harington’s total earnings from the show have been near about $30 Million before taxes as he earned near about $1.1 million per episode for the final two seasons. He is regarded as one of the finest actors on the show who gained recognition as Jon Snow across the world. So, it will be accurate to say that Mother of Dragons is richer than Jon Snow.
Emilia Clarke admits keeping spoilers for Secret Invasion was easier than for Game of Thrones
Clarke appeared in MCU’s Secret Invasion, which unfortunately failed to impress the audience. Back in 2023, Emilia Clarke appeared in the EW’s Around the Table series where she admitted that keeping spoilers for Marvel’s mini-series was much easier, compared to keeping them for HBO’s GOT. She said,
“When we were doing Game of Thrones, when it started to get to the later seasons, some massive security changes happened. I was chatting with the show runners and they were like, ‘Marvel. We’re just learning from Marvel. Whatever Marvel’s doing, we just want to do that.’ So that became, you don’t print anything-and then there was like me and Peter Dinklage being like, ‘I need it on paper! I can’t learn my lines without it being on paper!’”
Emilia Clarke went on to reveal that when she joined Secret Invasion, she was utterly scared of Marvel security after a Zoom meeting. She recalled switching off her phone for the first few days of filming because she was worried that fans might track her down and leak something about the project. The actress expressed her disappointment as she recalled the spoilers of GOT being leaked at the time. She said,
“It just sucks. Not that I did the spoiling.”
Samuel L. Jackson shared that security had shot a drone down while they were filming Secret Invasion. He noted that the Marvel security tracked the person down and caught him as well.
Secret Invasion is streaming on Disney+ whereas Game of Thrones is streaming on HBO.
