Kit Harington

Kit Harington was born Christopher Catesby Harington in Acton, London

 His mother named him after 16th-century British playwright and poet Christopher Marlowe

Kit's eight times great-grandfather was King Charles II of England. 

Harington was a pupil at the Southfield Primary School from 1992 to 1998.

When he was 11, his family moved to Worcestershire, and he studied at the Chantry High School in Martley until 2003

 He became interested in acting after watching a production of Waiting for Godot when he was 14

He attended Worcester Sixth Form College, where he studied Drama and Theatre Studies, between 2003 and 2005.