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| Eddard Stark | |
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| A Song of Ice and Fire character Game of Thrones character | |
 Sean Bean as Ned Stark | |
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| Created by | George R. R. Martin |
| Adapted by | D. B. Weiss & David Benioff (Game of Thrones) |
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| Alias | The Quiet Wolf |
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Military Commander |
| Family | House Stark |
| Spouse | Catelyn Tully |
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| Origin | Winterfell |
Eddard "Ned" Stark, known as The Quiet Wolf, is a fictional character in the 1996 fantasy novel A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin and Game of Thrones, HBO's adaptation of Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. In the storyline, Ned is the lord of Winterfell, an ancient fortress in the North of the fictional continent of Westeros. Though the character is established as the main character in the novel and the first season of the TV adaptation, a plot twist involving Ned near the end of the novel and the end of the first season shocked both readers of the book and viewers of the TV series.[1][2]
Ned is portrayed by veteran English actor Sean Bean in the first season of Game of Thrones,[3][4] as a child by Sebastian Croft in the sixth season, and as a young adult by Robert Aramayo in the sixth and seventh seasons. Bean was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television and a Scream Award for Best Fantasy Actor for the role. He and the rest of the cast were nominated for Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2011.
- ^ Orr, David (August 12, 2011). "Dragons Ascendant: George R. R. Martin and the Rise of Fantasy". The New York Times. Retrieved July 12, 2014.
- ^ Hibberd, James (June 13, 2011). "HBO defends Game of Thrones shocker". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
- ^ "Game of Thrones: Lord Eddard 'Ned' Stark". HBO. Retrieved August 19, 2014.
- ^ Martin, George R. R. (July 16, 2010). "Not a Blog: From HBO". GRRM.livejournal.com. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016. Retrieved August 19, 2014.