--- title: Why You Should Follow the Game of Thrones Night King Actor description: The stuntman who plays the Night King on 'Game of Thrones,' Vladimir Furdik, has an Instagram full of top-notch content. canonical: https://time.com/5581193/game-of-thrones-night-king-instagram/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-05-01T16:27:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-13T08:29:30.404Z og:title: The Night King From Game of Thrones Has a Delightfully Lively Internet Presence og:description: Vladimir Furdik has all the behind-the-scenes 'Thrones' content you need og:url: https://time.com/5581193/game-of-thrones-night-king-instagram/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt84ee530c8b3097a6/6989490797cdff66466b7ba7/game-of-thrones-season-8-episode-3-night-king.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3733 og:image:height: 2100 og:image:alt: game-of-thrones-season-8-episode-3-night-king og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Night King From Game of Thrones Has a Delightfully Lively Internet Presence twitter:description: Vladimir Furdik has all the behind-the-scenes 'Thrones' content you need twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt84ee530c8b3097a6/6989490797cdff66466b7ba7/game-of-thrones-season-8-episode-3-night-king.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Night King From _Game of Thrones_ Has a Delightfully Lively Internet Presence > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-brief-2026q3/newsletters?i=5ea437b5-7611-4ba5-822d-95df77dde092&cr=time-nl-brief-2026q3-v1) ## Video: Game of Thrones | Season 8 Episode 4 | Preview [Watch (HLS stream): Game of Thrones | Season 8 Episode 4 | Preview](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/hzNP5pHr.m3u8) (0:30)  _Published 2019-04-29. Game of Thrones | Season 8 Episode 4 | Preview_  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner May 1, 2019 4:27 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner May 1, 2019 4:27 PM UTC There’s a chance you may not yet know the name Vladimir Furdik. You may not even recognize his face. But if you look closely enough, you might just realize that the Slovakian stuntman and actor bears just the slightest resemblance to the now-infamous [Night King](http://time.com/3924852/every-game-of-thrones-death/item/the-night-king/), the ultimate villain on [_Game of Thrones_.](http://time.com/5578992/game-of-thrones-grey-worm-jacob-anderson-interview/) And it turns out that Furdik — who prepared for his role as the ruler of armies of undead by spending as long as six hours in the makeup chair — has an illustrious past in films, as well as a top-notch presence on social media, all aside from his charisma as the mysterious ruler of zombies with ice-blue eyes. Furdik’s [credits as a stuntman](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0298842/) go back to movies in the 1990s, and include everything from working in the James Bond action hit _Skyfall_ to stunt doubling for actors like Nicolas Cage and Channing Tatum. So it should come as no surprise that his Instagram is a treasure trove of throwback set pictures and actor selfies in beautiful set locations around the world. Furdik also appears to have a particularly special connection with horses, going so far as kissing one in one of his photos. In an [interview with _Vulture_](https://www.vulture.com/2019/04/game-of-thrones-vladimir-furdik-night-king-interview.html), he specified that the shot in question was taken in Malaysia on the set of the show Marco Polo. “And this horse was like a child. This horse wanted to play,” he explained. But most of his content doesn’t require explanation. It does give us an excellent peek into the behind-the-scenes world of [_Thrones_](http://time.com/5580286/game-of-thrones-theon-hint/), however — and behind the six-hour makeup mask of the Night King himself. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5581193/game-of-thrones-night-king-instagram/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5581193/game-of-thrones-night-king-instagram/"},"headline":"The Night King From Game of Thrones Has a Delightfully Lively Internet Presence","datePublished":"2019-05-01T16:27:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-13T08:29:30.404Z","description":"The Night King is great on Instagram","url":"https://time.com/5581193/game-of-thrones-night-king-instagram/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Social Media","viral","onetime","game of thrones 2019","clickmonsters"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt84ee530c8b3097a6/6989490797cdff66466b7ba7/game-of-thrones-season-8-episode-3-night-king.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt84ee530c8b3097a6/6989490797cdff66466b7ba7/game-of-thrones-season-8-episode-3-night-king.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"game-of-thrones-season-8-episode-3-night-king","caption":"Vladimir Furdik as Night King","creditText":"Courtesy of HBO","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/5581193/game-of-thrones-night-king-instagram/","name":"The Night King From Game of Thrones Has a Delightfully Lively Internet Presence"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Game of Thrones | Season 8 Episode 4 | Preview","description":"Game of Thrones | Season 8 Episode 4 | Preview","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/hzNP5pHr/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2019-04-29T03:15:39.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/hzNP5pHr.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5581193/game-of-thrones-night-king-instagram/","duration":"PT30S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5581193/game-of-thrones-night-king-instagram/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```