Icelandic professional strongman and actor best known for playing Gregor ‘The Mountain’ Clegane on TV series Game of Thrones, Hafthor Bjornsson’s birth name is Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro, Most Shocking "Game of Thrones" Character Death. He took over the role of Gregor "The Mountain That Rides" Clegane for the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth seasons. Presently, there is no information about his assets and monthly/annually salary. Björnsson comes from Iceland so it'd be a good idea to take a look at the average height there. He stands at 6 feet 9 inches tall (2.06 m), and weighs more than 400 pounds (180 kg).[1]. Hafthor Bjornsson was born in Reykjavík, Iceland. Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, aka “The Mountain” from Game Of Thrones, is a complete monster in every sense of the word.Standing at 6’9 and 395 pounds—this guy is seriously huge. His wife Kelsey is 5 feet 2 inches, making her just over a foot and a half shorter than he is. His genuine name is Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson. He as of late broke the record of heaviest deadlift for example 501 kg. List of references to Game of Thrones in other media, The Rains of Castamere (Histories & Lore), Telltale video game navigation sub-portal, Miguel Sapochnik - co-showrunner/director, https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Haf%C3%BE%C3%B3r_J%C3%BAl%C3%ADus_Bj%C3%B6rnsson?oldid=430366. He became the first actor to portray Clegane in more than one season with his appearances in season 5. He actually began as a basketball player until a knee injury at 20 years old forced him to consider other options. Official Sites. He has also won Europe's Strongest Man competition in 2014 and has appeared in four World's Strongest Man finals through 2011-2014, finishing in sixth, third, third, and second respectively only narrowly missing the title in 2014 to Lithuanian four time World's Strongest Man winner, and friend of Hafþór's, Žydrūnas Savickas. This was his first main acting role, and the third person to depict the character after Conan Stevens played the role in season 1 and Ian Whyte in season 2. |  On 31 January 2015, Björnsson beat a 1000-year-old record set by Orm Storolfsson at the World's Strongest Viking competition in Norway, where he carried a 10 m (33 ft) long 650 kg (1,430 lb) log for five steps According to his wife's social media accounts, the actual wedding took place in August 2018. Representing Iceland at the age of 30, Thor is the defending champion of the 2018 Tachi Palace World’s Strongest Man. Hafthor Bjornsson (conceived in 26 November 1988) is an Icelandic entertainer and world’s most grounded man. Icelandic professional strongman and actor best known for playing Gregor ‘The Mountain’ Clegane on TV series Game of Thrones, Hafthor Bjornsson’s birth name is Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson. He stands at 6 feet 9 inches tall (2.06 m), and weighs more than 400 pounds (180 kg). Where was Hafthor Bjornsson born? In 2010, he came third in Iceland's Strongest Man competition and has won every year since then. The World's Strongest Man and the lifestyle and fitness blogger have a 19-inch height difference. In keeping with Icelandic tradition, Björnsson is not a family name but a patronymic, meaning that his father was named Björn. |