--- title: Game of Thrones Maisie Williams Sophie Turner Friends PHOTOS description: The Stark family resemblance is uncanny canonical: https://time.com/4531199/maisie-williams-sophie-turner-game-of-thrones-friend/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-14T17:21:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:40.626Z og:title: Game of Thrones' Stark Sisters Just Took the Most Epic Photo og:description: The Stark family resemblance is uncanny og:url: https://time.com/4531199/maisie-williams-sophie-turner-game-of-thrones-friend/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdb1e4757f319361f/6988aa1b97cdff40266ae2e4/gettyimages-520388248.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1834 og:image:height: 1032 og:image:alt: Premiere Of HBO's "Game Of Thrones" Season 6 - Red Carpet og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Game of Thrones' Stark Sisters Just Took the Most Epic Photo twitter:description: The Stark family resemblance is uncanny twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdb1e4757f319361f/6988aa1b97cdff40266ae2e4/gettyimages-520388248.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Game of Thrones'_ Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner Created the Most Adorable Stark Sister Portrait > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Todd Williamson/Getty Images) Todd Williamson—Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 14, 2016 5:21 PM UTC When a [_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/4429346/game-of-thrones-season-7-cast-news/?iid=sr-link1) fan asked [Maisie Williams](http://time.com/4492903/maisie-williams-commercial-beauty-industry-parody/?iid=sr-link2) for a selfie, she delivered a photo so epic, it could be the cover of the _Song of Ice and Fire_ final book by George R. R. Martin. In the picture, which she posted to Twitter, Williams swapped faces with Sophie Turner, a.k.a. her TV sister Sansa. The result was a Sansa family portrait so epic that it would absolutely look right at home hanging in the grand halls of Winterfell—or it could be used on the battlefield to scare off the Lannister armies. This isn’t the first time that [Williams](http://time.com/4284168/game-of-thrones-maisie-williams-feminist/?iid=sr-link3) and Turner have [swapped faces](https://www.instagram.com/p/BKn8A-ShiJj/). The [_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/4493244/game-of-thrones-gendry-return-theory/?iid=sr-link3)co-stars are close friends (or at least appear to be on social media) and have even come up with their own portmanteau—[Mophie](https://www.instagram.com/p/9cFrBWKolT/). Face-swapping isn’t just for the Stark sisters, though. Back in 2014, Williams asked fans to swap her mug with that of the Hound and the results were both [terrifying and awesome](https://twitter.com/Maisie%5FWilliams/status/463041073112424449). > [](https://twitter.com/Maisie%5FWilliams/status/786680458834747392) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4531199/maisie-williams-sophie-turner-game-of-thrones-friend/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4531199/maisie-williams-sophie-turner-game-of-thrones-friend/"},"headline":"Game of Thrones' Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner Created the Most Adorable Stark Sister Portrait","datePublished":"2016-10-14T17:21:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:40.626Z","description":"The Stark family resemblance is uncanny","url":"https://time.com/4531199/maisie-williams-sophie-turner-game-of-thrones-friend/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","game of thrones","celebrity","Maisie Williams","Sophie Turner"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdb1e4757f319361f/6988aa1b97cdff40266ae2e4/gettyimages-520388248.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdb1e4757f319361f/6988aa1b97cdff40266ae2e4/gettyimages-520388248.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Premiere Of HBO's \"Game Of Thrones\" Season 6 - Red Carpet","caption":"Premiere Of HBO's \"Game Of Thrones\" Season 6 - Red Carpet","creditText":"Todd Williamson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/4531199/maisie-williams-sophie-turner-game-of-thrones-friend/","name":"Game of Thrones' Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner Created the Most Adorable Stark Sister Portrait"}}]}] ```