In 2013, Clarke landed the role of Sarah Connor in “Terminator Genisys,” which grossed $440.6 million at the box office when it was released in 2015. She followed the movie with several more hits: 2016’s “Me Before You” (which grossed $208.3 million), 2018’s “Solo: A Star Wars Story” ($393.2 million), and 2019’s “Last Christmas” ($121.6 million). Emilia also appeared in supernatural thriller “Voice from the Stone” (2017), short film “Leading Lady Parts” (2018), and crime thriller “Above Suspicion” (2019) and lent her voice to the TV shows “Futurama” (2013), “Robot Chicken” (2016), “Animals” (2017), and “Thunderbirds Are Go” (2017).
Clarke was offered the role of Anastasia Steele in “Fifty Shades of Grey” but turned it down. In 2020, Clarke was cast as Nina in a production of Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull” at London’s Playhouse Theatre, but on March 16th, the production was suspended after less than a week of previews due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
For the final two seasons of Game of Thrones, 14 episodes that aired between July 2017 and May 2019, Emilia Clarke’s salary episode was $1.1 million. That works out to $14.3 million for those two seasons. That per episode salary is currently the sixth highest amount any actor has ever earned on TV show (tied with several of her GOT co-stars). For the 20 episodes she shot for seasons 5 and 6, she earned $500,000 per episode, $10 million total. Emilia’s total earnings from the entire run of Game of Thrones likely top $30 million before taxes.