Before Irish swimmer Daniel Wiffen took home a gold and a bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics , he was part of an iconic television moment. Wiffen, 23, and his twin brother, Nathan , were extras in the infamous “Red Wedding” scene from HBO’s Game of Thrones . Billed simply as “Red Wedding Twin” on his IMDb page , Wiffen opened up to Olympics.
com about the experience in 2022. “My parents wouldn’t really let me watch it, but I guess my dad watched it all the time, and then my sister [ Elizabeth ] got a really good role in Game of Thrones — she was one of the Frey daughters [Neyela Frey, granddaughter of Lord Walder Frey],” Wiffen, who was 11 when the shocking episode aired in 2013, recalled. “So, she came in and did her bit and then we came in for the Red Wedding, in the background — which was pretty cool.
” The season 3 episode, which is titled “The Rains of Castamere,” is one of the most talked-about in the show’s history. The “Red Wedding” scene depicts the murder of Robb Stark ( Richard Madden ), Catelyn Stark ( Michelle Fairley ), pregnant Talisa Stark ( Oona Chaplin ) and several others at the hands of Walder Frey’s men. In addition to his Game of Thrones appearance, Wiffen acted in a 2015 episode of The Frankenstein Chronicles .
He has since focused his efforts on swimming and made his Olympics debut at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo where he competed in the men’s 800m freestyle and the 1500m freestyle. Wiffen returned for the .