--- description: On Sunday night's episode of Game of Thrones, Ramsay Bolton died with the bloody fanfare that only this series can deliver. title: 'Game of Thrones' Actor Talks About His Character's Death image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # _Game of Thrones_ Actor Talks About His Character's Gory Death Sunday Night by [Nash Jenkins](/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 20, 2016 3:08 AM CUT by [Nash Jenkins](/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 20, 2016 3:08 AM CUT **Warning:** This post contains spoilers for the sixth season of _Game of Thrones_. On Sunday night’s episode of _Game of Thrones,_ Ramsay Bolton died with the bloody fanfare that only this series can deliver: he was beaten senselessly by Jon Snow and then fed to his own dogs by Sansa Stark. Fans couldn’t have been happier with the turn of events, chalking it up to poetic justice. > [](https://twitter.com/ravnboy/status/744716546212245504) Iwan Rheon, who played Bolton for four seasons, [spoke](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/06/19/game-thrones-battle-death "undefined") to _Entertainment Weekly_ about his character’s gory demise. “I think it’s kind of right he goes down,” Rheon said. “Because what else is he going to do after this? He’s done so many things. It’s justified and it’s the right thing to do. It’s the right path.” He also spoke on how he learned that he’d be offed. “I had received half the scripts, five episodes, then I got the call,” he said. “They joked, ‘Isn’t it great Ramsay ends up on the Iron Throne?’ As soon as they said that I said, ‘He’s dead isn’t he?'” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4374348/game-of-thrones-ramsay-bolton/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4374348/game-of-thrones-ramsay-bolton/"},"headline":"Game of Thrones Actor Talks About His Character's Gory Death Sunday Night","datePublished":"2016-06-20T03:08:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T22:42:14.522Z","description":"\"It’s justified and it’s the right thing to do.\"","url":"https://time.com/4374348/game-of-thrones-ramsay-bolton/","keywords":["Television","game of thrones"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nash Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","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":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4374348/game-of-thrones-ramsay-bolton/","name":"Game of Thrones Actor Talks About His Character's Gory Death Sunday Night"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"'Thrones' Catching Up With Book Plot Means Spoilers For All","description":"The day","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/j83INjRk/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-16T18:30:15.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/j83INjRk.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4374348/game-of-thrones-ramsay-bolton/","duration":"PT2M2S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4374348/game-of-thrones-ramsay-bolton/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```