A version of this story on Kit Harington first appeared in the print edition of TheWrap Magazine’s Down to the Wire Emmy Issue.
He came back from the dead in Episode 2 and he beat the sadistic baddie Ramsay Bolton to a pulp with his fists in Episode 9. Those two moments alone made HBO’s Game of Thrones hero Jon Snow the man who set pop culture ablaze this television season.
But Snow and the man who plays him, Kit Harington, also had an entire season to remember on “Game of Thrones” — a series that leads all shows in Emmy nominations this year, and is the defending champ in the marquee Outstanding Drama Series category.