The cast of Game of Thrones from the first episode to today

Series 1 sansa was a very different person to season 8 Sansa. You'd even be forgiven for finding early Sansa slightly annoying, but that changed pretty quickly and soon she was the Sansa that locked Ramsay Bolton in the dungeons with his own hounds. That Sansa.

Luckily for us Sophie and husband Joe Jonas keep us pretty up to date with their lives on Instagram. Plus, they just welcomed their first child together: a baby girl called Willa.

Who could have imagined that the Daenerys of episode one, for whom we felt endless sympathy, would end up being, well, a bit of a tyrant actually.

Emilia's career went from strength to strength after GOT ended when she starred in Netflix's much-loved film Last Christmas in 2019. She's also an active philanthropist and campaigner.

Baby-faced idealist Jon Snow spends most of the first episode practicing his sword fighting and preparing to travel to join the Night's Watch. The only slight hint that he might turn out to be someone comes when he names his rescued wolf Ghost. A sign of things to come...

Kit is a bit of a household name these days, although aside from a part in the second series of Netflix's Criminal he has mainly been busy getting married to co-star Rose Leslie and bringing up their first child together.

Robb was introduced to us as the next Lord of Winterfell with a bright future ahead of him. Sadly, we all know how that turned out...

Since his breakout role in GOT Madden it the big time, starring in Elton John biopic Rocketman as well as war epic 1917. And, obviously, as us Line of Duty fans know (of course we're all LOD fans), he played the all-important David in Jed Mercurio's Bodyguard.

Sean Bean aka Lord Eddard 'Ned' Stark was in just nine of the 73 episodes of Game of Thrones, and yet somehow he managed to have a huge and unending impact on the entire show. Ned Stark, Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones, Ned Stark - the two are inherently linked.

Although his role as Ned Stark didn't help his reputation for playing characters who die early on, Sean Bean was a big deal before GOT and he carried on being one after the fact. He even starred in Medici along with none other Richard Madden. A little Stark reunion.

Episode one wasn't kind to Bran. Not only did all his siblings mug him off in his archery lesson, but the pilot ended with Jamie Lannister pushing him out of a window.

Isaac Hemptead Wright was just 12 when he starred in his breakout role as Bran, and of course he became a crucial part of the show. After GOT ended Isaac headed to University to study neuroscience.

We all loved Catelyn and her glorious hair, but episode one revealed some tensions between her and Jon Snow that we did not love. Can't we all just get along?

Michelle Fairley is a huge acting success. She recently starred in Sky's crime drama Gangs of London a along with Fortitude and the Philippa Gregory TV adaptation The White Princess.

After people got over the fact that Theon was played by Lily Allen's brother Alfie Allen they realised that actually he's a pretty great actor, who took his character on a whirlwind journey.

Allen has since starred in the TV adaptation of Caitlin Moran's How to Build a Girl, Harlots and The Murders at White House Farm.

Robert Baratheon was the classic overindulgent king with the heart of gold always carrying a goblet full of wine. He was best friends with Ned Stark and was totally resigned to the fact that his wife was shagging her own brother. Ew.

Mark Addy is a pretty recognisable face in British cinema, thanks to his role in the iconic The Full Monty. Recently you'll have seen him in The Murders at White House Farm along with The Salisbury Poisonings.