Born 20 May 1992 in Cork, Ireland he started acting at the age of seven in the Independent Theatre Workshop. Gleeson’ s first roles in feature films were minor roles in Batman Begins( 2005), Shrooms( 2007) and A Shine of Rainbows( 2009). In 2010 he appeared in a leading role in Alicia Duffy’ s All Good
Be Bpeared Children. The reviewer for the Variety magazine con- sidered Gleeson“ the pic’ s big discovery”. The 21 year old Gleeson plays the easy-to-despise boy king, Joffrey Baratheon, in the medieval drama which is causing waves on both sides of the Atlantic Game of Thrones. He was announced in the role on 19 July