Isaac Hempstead Wright Disappeared After GoT Ended; What Is He Up To These Days?
Game of Thrones is, without doubt, one of the most impactful television series of the last couple of decades.
Despite controversies of its later seasons and particularly the finale, it set records of viewership for HBO and was showered with prestigious awards. Consequently, it gave a major boost to careers of almost every actor who appeared on it in significant roles.
Actors like Emilia Clarke and Kit Harington about whom no one would have ever heard without Game of Thrones, went on to get roles in big blockbusters. Veterans of the industry like Charles Dance and Liam Cunningham achieved international renown and saw resurgences in their careers thanks to their roles in this series.
But some actors, even those who played major characters, haven't been able – or did not want – to pave their ways to new roles using the success of Game of Thrones. One of them is Isaac Hempstead Wright, who played the role of Bran Stark throughout all 8 seasons of the series.
To be fair, his role was not especially suited to demonstrating one's acting talent – he started playing Bran as a child, and child actors often fail to continue their career upon growing to become adults. Then his character got crippled in the very first episode of the series.
While Bran was an important character to the plot due to the magical powers he eventually learned from the Three-Eyed Raven, acting as Bran mostly involved looking mysterious and staring blank-facedly around. Particularly as while Isaac Hempstead Wright himself got older, Bran Stark was supposed to gradually lose pretty much all of his personality.
Though Bran ended on the Iron Throne in the end, by that time he was supposed to be little more than a living terminal for ancestral memories and future sight.
So, it is not surprising that after Game of Thrones was completed Isaac Hempstead Wright did not have much success as an actor, particularly as he also shares his time between acting and continuing his education. Curiously – in the light of what happened to Bran – he's studying neuroscience in London. His only past-GoT role so far has been Richard in Voyagers (2021), a relatively low-budget sci-fi movie, only notable for how badly it flopped.