Sophie Turner was barely a teenager when she auditioned for the role of Sansa Stark on "Game of Thrones." She filmed the first season a year later, and by the time the first season premiered, she was 15.
Right out of the gate, "Game of Thrones" was known as a brutal series. In the final episode of Season 1, there's a scene where Joffrey Baratheon — the sadistic king who just had Sansa's father killed right in front of her — takes her up on the ramparts so she can look at her father's severed head on a pike; again, this is a 14-year-old actor playing this, and doing a fantastic job.
