Peter Claffey

Claffey is from Portumna, in County Galway, he attended Garbally College and played rugby union for Galwegians RFC.[2][3]

Claffey played rugby union for Ballinasloe RFC in the Connacht Senior League. 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.[4][5] In 2019, he signed for Terenure College.[6]

Claffey trained in acting trained 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.[7]

His onscreen career began in 2022 with television appearances on the shows Harry Wild and Apple TV dark comedy Bad Sisters.[8] 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 Ser Duncan the Tall—aka Dunk, in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight, written by George R. R. Martin and Ira Parker, and set a century before the events of Game Of Thrones, but 72 years after the start of House of the Dragon.[12][13]

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