Sansa Stark has become one of the leading and unpredictable characters on Gme of Thrones! She has been through a lot.
This caused for her to change a lot. So let’s find out some trivia and facts about her!
- Sansa Stark is a fictional character created by American author George R. R. Martin
- She is a prominent character in Martin’s award-winning A Song of Ice and Fire series
- Introduced in A Game of Thrones (1996), Sansa is the elder daughter
- And second child of Lord Eddard Stark
- And his wife Lady Catelyn Stark
- She subsequently appeared in the following three novels: A Clash of Kings (1998), A Storm of Swords (2000), and A Feast for Crows (2005)
- While absent from the fifth novel A Dance with Dragons
- As the books are separated geographically, Sansa is confirmed to return in the forthcoming next book in the series, The Winds of Winter
- In HBO’s adaptation of the series, Game of Thrones, Sansa is portrayed by English actress Sophie Turner
- The character has received critical acclaim
- Including praise as the 4th greatest character in the series by Rolling Stone
- She and the rest of the cast were nominated for Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2016
- Sansa Stark is the second child
- And elder daughter of Eddard Stark and Catelyn Stark
- She was born and raised in Winterfell
- Until leaving with her father and sister at the beginning of the series
- She was raised with a younger sister Arya Stark
- Two younger brothers Rickon Stark and Bran Stark
- As well as an older brother Robb Stark
- And an older illegitimate half-brother, Jon Snow
- Raised as a lady, Sansa is traditionally feminine
- Sansa’s interests are music, poetry, and singing
- She strives to become like the heroines of romantic tales by attempting to find a prince, knight, or gentleman to fall in love with
- For a companion animal, she owned a direwolf named Lady
- However, Lady was killed in place of Arya’s direwolf, Nymeria, in the first installment
- Lady is killed because Nymeria attacked the Crown Prince, Joffrey Baratheon and later fled
- Sansa has been described as tall, slim, womanly, and beautiful,
- Destined to be a lady or a queen
- She has blue eyes and thick auburn hair that she inherits from her mother
- Sansa is 11 years old in A Game of Thrones
- And nearly 14 in A Feast for Crows
- Arguably the most naive of the Stark children at the start of the series
- Sansa often finds herself used as a pawn in the machinations of the other characters
- However, as the story progresses, she matures
- And becomes more of a player of the game rather than a pawn for other characters
