--- title: Kit Harington Shaved His Beard: Photo description: The Game of Thrones star, who plays crowd favorite Jon Snow, has made a personal grooming move that's sending die-hard fans into a frenzy. canonical: https://time.com/4356316/kit-harington-beard/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-03T15:37:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:32:57.001Z og:title: Kit Harington, Lord Commander of Facial Hair, Shaved His Beard og:description: You know nothing about facial hair, Jon Snow og:url: https://time.com/4356316/kit-harington-beard/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kit Harington, Lord Commander of Facial Hair, Shaved His Beard twitter:description: You know nothing about facial hair, Jon Snow twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Kit Harington, Lord Commander of Facial Hair, Has Shaved His Beard > Sponsored content. 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And unlike the length of his tell-tale long locks — which were [carefully monitored](http://time.com/3921077/game-of-thrones-jon-snow-kit-harington/) for clues about Jon Snow’s fate after last season’s cliffhanger ending — his beard can easily grow back in time for filming the show’s seventh season. Or so we hope. Take a look at Harington’s fresh-faced look below: > [](https://twitter.com/izzy%5Fcatt%5F/status/738682323311468544) > [](https://twitter.com/LordSnow/status/737984402756653056) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4356316/kit-harington-beard/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4356316/kit-harington-beard/"},"headline":"Kit Harington, Lord Commander of Facial Hair, Has Shaved His Beard","datePublished":"2016-06-03T15:37:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:32:57.001Z","description":"You know nothing about facial hair, Jon Snow","url":"https://time.com/4356316/kit-harington-beard/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4356316/kit-harington-beard/","name":"Kit Harington, Lord Commander of Facial Hair, Has Shaved His Beard"}}]}] ```