What All The Game of Thrones Actors Look Like, Sans the Wigs and Armor

Transformation on a 1 to 10 scale, 10 being the most drastic: 9. Cersei had the looks of a sweet fairy tale princess and the heart of a frozen b*tch; Lena, with her jet black hair, avant-garde ’dos, and bicep tattoo, looks like one tough lady...but seems to be

Transformation: 1. Is there anything different here other than a dollop of hair gel?

Transformation: 6. IRL, she's a) happy and b) not sickly pale.

Transformation: 8, because Khaleesi was as known for that blond hair as she was for those dragons.

Transformation: 6, because if Arya lived in present day she wouldn't be caught dead in Maisie's crop tops and hair extensions.

Transformation: 4, for added badass-ness. Less floppy hair and fewer kilts, more beanies and bombers.

Transformation: 2. You look basically the same either way, Nikolaj, which is to say: SEXY.

Transformation: 10. Skrillex hair, people, Skrillex hair. (Natalie Dormer sported it for another role, but still.)

Transformation: 4, because what is UP with his skin tone on the show? Toby Sebastian is so hot in real life. But on the show he was...kinda ghostly looking?

Transformation: 7. Amazing what a blowout and a coat of red lipstick can do, right?

Transformation: 5. The makeup's different, but height is the British actress' most marked physical characteristic (she's 6'3"), and that goes with her everywhere, on set and off.

Transformation: 7. Sure, Jonathan's real-life glasses change things, but dude? He doesn't even really look like the same person in the show. (The eyebrows, the facial hair...the dapper gent vs. the disenfranchised, doesn't-care-about-material-possessions man.)

Transformation: 5, because in real life the actress has naturally straight hair. It takes tiiiiime to get perfectly wavy waves, as we all know.

Transformation: 4, because the facial hair changes up his game.

Transformation: 10, for obvious reasons. It takes acting chops and a serious amount of time spent in the hair and makeup chair to play a giant.

Transformation: 3.6...all because of the brows. The arched, semicircle brow shape she prefers in real life gives her face a much different look than the straighter eyebrows she sported on the show.

Transformation: 10, but only because he's smiling. JOFFREY NEVER SMILES (unless he's torturing a kitten).

Transformation: 4, only because we never actually see Olenna's hair, just those scarves.

Transformation: 2, which is probably pretty arbitrary, but the real-life facial hair sort of made me think Stephen Dillane was Steven Spielberg.

Transformation: 8, because if Melisandre were THIS gorgeous on the show, it would be too distracting.