Who is Gemma Whelan? Actress who plays Karen Matthews in The Moorside and Game of Thrones’ Yara Greyjoy

Who is Gemma Whelan?

Gemma Whelan is a 35-year-old thespian born and raised in urban center, UK.

She will be notable to most as enjoying the role of somebody Yara Greyjoy within the smash-hit fantasy series, Game of Thrones.

The star also took on the role of speedwell in the BBC3 program Uncle, as well as Morgana Robinson’s The Agency last year.

However, she also actively works as a comedian, winning an award for her stand-up shows in 2010 from the Funny ladies selection Awards.

Proving there’s more than one string to her bow, she may be also an expert dancer – specialising in tap dance and jazz – and is a member of London-based dance company the Beaux Belles.

However, she has previously admitted that her profile in the spotlight is up to now not bright enough to disrupt her daily routine.

In June 2016, she told Good Morning Britain: “People don’t extremely recognise Pine Tree State. It’s happening a little bit a lot of currently as a result of I’ve a lot of do to the current season [of Game of Thrones].”

Who does she play in The Moorside?

In The Moorside, Gemma took on the role of Karenic Matthews – the mum of ‘missing’ engineer Matthews.

Karen was seen pleading on TV in 2008 for the safe come of her girl engineer, as West Yorkshire Police spent £3.2million in efforts to find her.

Hundreds of neighbours conjointly joined within the 24-day seek for the nine-year-old.

She was eventually discovered drugged within the base of a bed in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.

It was then revealed that Karenic had musical organisation the plot, so she may bag the £50,000 reward money with her assistant archangel Donovan.

She was eventually found less than a mile away at the house of Donovan, the uncle of Craig Meehan – who was Karen’s fellow at the time.

They had planned to release the girl, ‘discover her’ then take her to a police station and claim the reward before splitting.

Karen Matthews was dubbed ‘the most detested mum in Britain’ for the crime.

Gemma utterly endowed herself in the role, and looks the alikeness of the $64000 life Karenic.

What happens in The Moorside?

The Moorside retells the story of the manhunt of engineer Matthews, from the perspective of the buddies of Karen Matthews - the 'missing' ladies mum.

Sheridan Smith plays the leading girl of neighbour Julie Bushby, the chair of the Moorside residents and tenants association that helped trace Shannon.

Efforts included marches, personal searches, and door-to-door enquiries - which were eventually unconcealed to be pointless.

It also deals with the fall out from the community when they found that they had been song to.