Joe Dempsie

Acting

Joe Dempsie

Born 1987-06-22 · Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK

Joseph Maxwell Dempsie (born 22 June 1987) is an English actor, best known for his roles as Chris Miles in the E4 teen comedy-drama Skins (2007–2008) and Gendry Baratheon in Game of Thrones (2011–2013; 2017–2019). Dempsie's earlier acting credits include the medical dramas Peak Practice (2000), Doctors (2001–2003), and Sweet Medicine (2003), as well as the films One for the Road and Heartlands (2003). He also appeared in This is England '86 (2010) and This is England '90 (2015), Born and Bred, a BBC documentary-drama about Tony Martin, and as the villainous John in The Fades (2011).

Acting credits

Blitz poster
6.2

A tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers.

Blitz

2011

Game of Thrones: The Last Watch poster
7.0

For a year, acclaimed British filmmaker Jeanie Finlay was embedded on the set of the hit HBO series “Game of Thrones,” chronicling the creation of the show’s most ambitious and complicated season. Debuting one week after the series 8 finale, GAME OF THRONES: THE LAST WATCH delves deep into the mud and blood to reveal the tears and triumphs involved in the challenge of bringing the fantasy world of Westeros to life in the very real studios, fields and car-parks of Northern Ireland. Made with unprecedented access, GAME OF THRONES: THE LAST WATCH is an up-close and personal portrait from the trenches of production, following the crew and the cast as they contend with extreme weather, punishing deadlines and an ever-excited fandom hungry for spoilers. Much more than a “making of” documentary, this is a funny, heartbreaking story, told with wit and intimacy, about the bittersweet pleasures of what it means to create a world – and then have to say goodbye to it.

Game of Thrones: The Last Watch

2019

Merge poster
5.7

In a future where technology feels more human than ever, people confront love, loss, and identity as the boundaries between man and machine disappear.

Merge

2025

Monsters: Dark Continent poster
4.7

Seven years on from the events of Monsters, and the ‘Infected Zones’ have spread worldwide. Humans have been knocked off the top of the food chain, with disparate communities struggling for survival. American soldiers are being sent abroad to protect US interests from the Monsters, but the war is far from being won.

Monsters: Dark Continent

2014

The Damned United poster
7.2

Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous manager Don Revie and how much he is missing right-hand man Peter Taylor.

The Damned United

2009

Soulmate poster
7.3

2035. Anna, a lonely computer coder, has been nurturing an illegal romance with an AI in a computer simulation for the past six months. When her company uncovers the affair, she's forced into a desperate battle to save her precious relationship.

Soulmate

2025

Addition poster
6.2

Grace Lisa Vandenburg counts everything - the letters in her name, the poppy seeds on her orange cake. She counts because numbers hold the world together. But when a chance encounter with Seamus turns her world upside down, Grace's meticulously ordered life starts to unravel.

Addition

2026

Heartlands poster
6.0

Gentle Colin 'Col' Lawes happily lead a quiet life, running a news agency with his soiled-rotten wife Sandra and playing competition darts in the Atletic Arms team. Colin catches her committing adultery with team captain Geoff, a cop, who pretends Colin abused her. Col is thrown off the team just after it qualified for the league finals in Blackpool. He decides to travel there alone, hoping to win her back.

Heartlands

2003

Madly poster
4.9

Madly explores love in all its permutations in six short films from a vibrant group of filmmakers representing Japan, Argentina, the UK, the US, India, and Australia. All forms of love are on display in this anthology. And all manners of feelings expressed from jubilance to depression are done so strongly.

Madly

2016

Ellen poster
4.8

A tearaway teenage girl, at war with her mum, and trying to take control of her life, forms an amazing and unbreakable bond with a new friend. They raise hell, stick two fingers up at the world, and laugh like they never have before... but can Ellen avoid becoming just another statistic?

Ellen

2016

StarGirl poster
2.0

Stan is an ageing sheep farmer who's at odds with life and out of hope. During a meteor storm a mysterious female alien arrives on his farm, she appears to be lost. As they attempt to understand each other a bond is formed and Stan teaches Voyager about what it is to be human. Their fate and Stan's is sealed when the StarGirl confesses her real reason for visiting Earth.

StarGirl

2017

Truckload poster
9.0

Following a near-fatal traffic accident, Lizzie's moving out of her mum's care and back to London (or as Mum calls it, the city of death). But Lizzie's going to live.

Truckload

2025

The Gamechangers poster
5.9

The struggle of Houser's legal feud against American lawyer Jack Thompson, over the morality of the "Grand Theft Auto" video game series.

The Gamechangers

2015

Dark River poster
5.6

After her father dies, a young woman returns to her Yorkshire village for the first time in 15 years to claim the family farm she believes is hers.

Dark River

2017

Been So Long poster
5.5

A single mother in London's Camden Town hears music when she meets a handsome stranger with a past. But she's not sure she's ready to open her heart.

Been So Long

2018

Happy Clapper poster
NR

Wannabe gangster living alone in a caravan gets a visit from a born again Christian.

Happy Clapper

2011

The Love Box in Your Living Room poster
7.3

Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse tell the true story of Britain’s evolution over the last century through the life of the BBC, by turning complete fictions into a staggering array of hard facts.

The Love Box in Your Living Room

2022

Burn Burn Burn poster
6.5

Following the death of their friend, two girls in their late twenties embark on a road trip to spread his ashes. Seph and Alex take turns driving. Dan is in the glove compartment, in tupperware, decreasing in volume as the trip progresses.

Burn Burn Burn

2016

Murder: Joint Enterprise poster
7.8

A woman lies dead in a Nottingham flat, her terrified sister barricaded in the bathroom. At 2am a young man in a bloodstained shirt is pulled over for speeding. The three only met that afternoon – what happened in those fatal hours? All there is to go on is what the two survivors say.

Murder: Joint Enterprise

2012

One for the Road poster
5.8

One for the Road follows Jimmy, Paul, Richard and Mark who meet on a rehabilitation course for drink drivers. Jimmy is young, ambitious and desperate to sell his late father's business; Paul has been salesman of the year three times running, however, that was five years ago; Richard is a retired millionaire property developer and Mark is a taxi driver with a weakness for weed and philosophy.

One for the Road

2003

Edge poster
6.0

Six troubled strangers arrive at a hotel located on the south coast cliffs of Dover. Looking for something, or looking to lose themselves entirely, the guests spend time together in the cold, isolated setting. As tentative connections form, they begin to uncover a shared purpose that unites them.

Edge

2010

Come Out of the Woods poster
7.0

Three brothers living in rural Scotland struggle for intimacy and stability as they attempt to navigate their survival amongst a corrupt local police officer and the mysterious appearance of a girl's body on their land.

Come Out of the Woods

2017

Aftertaste poster
4.3

Moll and Alfie are getting together after a few years of friendship, but she has a secret that threatens not only their budding romance, but also his life.

Aftertaste

2020