BBC Last Christmas: Emilia Clarke's off-screen love life from famous ex boyfriend to 'engagement' to

June 2024 · 3 minute read

Emilia Clarke burst onto our screens as Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones back in 2011 and has since gone to star in a whole range of films.

This includes the 2019 film Last Christmas - yes, based on the Wham! song - alongside Emma Thompson and Henry Golding.

In the film, Emilia plays an aspiring singer who works in a dead-end job as an elf at a year-round Christmas shop, falling for the mysterious Tom who she keeps encountering.

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While she played this love story on-screen, Emilia has kept her love life relatively private.

Back in 2012 she dated Family Guy actor Seth MacFarlane, but the pair split just a year later.

She was also linked to actor James Franco in June 2013 after they were spotted visiting an art fair together in New York.

Rumours began to surface that the two were prepping to walk down the aisle, but Emilia dismissed the speculation as ridiculous.

Emilia revealed to The Observer Magazine: "I had my aunt from America calling me up and being like, 'Where's the ring?'... It's hilarious. He is, of course, beautiful.

"But I feel there's only a handful of women who could form an engagement after two meetings, and I'm not one of them."

In 2015 she was linked to Australian actor Jai Courtney after meeting on the set of Terminator Genysis.

She later went on to date director Charlie McDowell, the son of A Clockwork Orange actor Malcolm McDowell and American actress Mary Steenburgen.

The two were pictured together for the first time arm in arm back in 2018 in Venice, California.

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Their relationship lasted for around a year, before they split in 2019.

Charlie has since gone on to marry Emily in Paris actress Lily Collins, the daughter of musician Phil Collins.

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