| Date of birth | 28 July 1996 [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Portumna, County Galway, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 119 kg (18.7 st; 262 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Garbally College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | Bow Street Academy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Peter Claffey (born 28 July 1996) is an Irish actor and former rugby union player set to star in the 2026 Game of Thrones prequel, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms [2] .
Claffey is from Portumna, in County Galway, he attended Garbally College and played rugby union for Galwegians RFC. [3] [4]
Claffey played rugby union for Ballinasloe RFC and then University of Galway, subsequently joining Galwegians . A lock forward, he joined the Connacht Rugby academy in 2015. He played for Ireland national under-20 rugby union team in the 2016 Six Nations Under 20s Championship. He signed a professional contract with Connacht Rugby in 2018. [5] [6] In 2019, he signed for Terenure College. [7]
Claffey trained in acting at the Bow Street Academy in Dublin. He made his professional stage debut in 2022 playing Iggy in Tom Murphy's A Whistle in the Dark at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. [8]
His onscreen career began in 2022 with television appearances on the shows Harry Wild and Apple TV dark comedy Bad Sisters . [2] That year, he played Cormac in BBC Three comedy series Wreck , for which he filmed a second series in 2023. [9]
Claffey appears in the third series of Vikings: Valhalla and the Cillian Murphy led film-adaptation of Small Things Like These . [10] [11]
In April 2024, Claffey was cast in the Game of Thrones prequel series in the lead role of the legendary Ser Duncan the Tall—aka Dunk, in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms , written by George R. R. Martin and Ira Parker. It is set a century before the events of Game of Thrones, but 72 years after the start of House of the Dragon . [12] [13]
In 2024, he could be seen in season two of Bad Sisters, recast as the character Joe Walsh, love interest to Becka (Eve Hewson). [14]
| † | Denotes works that have not yet been released |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2022 | Harry Wild | Billy | Episode: "An Unhappy Happy is a Dangerous Thing" |
| Bad Sisters | Callum | Episode: "Explode a Man" | |
| 2022–2024 | Wreck | Cormac Kelly | 12 episodes |
| 2024 | Vikings: Valhalla | Dunstan | 4 episodes |
| 2024 | Small Things Like These | Barry | Film |
| 2024 | Bad Sisters | Joe Walsh | Recurring role. Season 2 |
| 2026 | A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms † | Ser Duncan the Tall | Lead role |