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).

Filmography

• 2026Addition — Seamus Joseph Rodgers
• 2025Merge — Neil (segment "Soulmate")
• 2025Soulmate — Neil
• Toxic Town — Derek Mahon
• 2025Truckload — Hot Doctor
• Get Millie Black — Luke Holborn
• PIECES OF HER — Young Nick Harp
• 2022The Love Box in Your Living Room
• Showtrial — DI Miles Southgate
• Adult Material — Rich
• 2020Aftertaste — Alfie
• Love, Death & Robots — Laird (voice)
• The Capture — James Whitlock
• 2018Been So Long — Kestrel
• 2017Come Out of the Woods — Ally
• 2017Dark River — David
• 2017StarGirl — Meteor Hunter 2
• 2016Burn Burn Burn — James
• 2016Ellen — Jason
• 2016Madly
• One of Us — Rob Elliot
• 2015The Gamechangers — Jamie King
• This Is England '90 — Higgy
• 2014Monsters: Dark Continent — Frankie
• New Worlds — Ned
• Southcliffe — Chris Cooper
• 2012Murder: Joint Enterprise — Stefan
• 2011Blitz — Theo Nelson
• Game of Thrones — Gendry
• 2011Happy Clapper — Marshy
• The Fades — John
• Accused — Martin Cormack
• 2010Edge — Philip
• This Is England '86 — Higgy
• Moving On — Kieran Murphy
• 2009The Damned United — Duncan McKenzie
• Merlin — William
• Skins — Chris Miles
• Doctor Who — Cline
• 2003Heartlands — Craig
• 2003One for the Road — TWOC'er
• Born and Bred — Humphrey 'Bogie' Locke
• Doctors — Lee Lindsay
• Peak Practice — Leon

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2019Game of Thrones: The Last Watch — Self
• Lily Allen and Friends — Self - Guest
• The Friday Night Project — Self