Ross Mullan
Ross Mullan is a Canadian-British actor and puppeteer. He is mostly known for his work portraying The White Walker on HBO's Game of Thrones in its second through fourth seasons. He has appeared in episodes of Doctor Who and in the film Clash of the Titans.
Early life
Mullan grew up in Montreal and attended Children’s Theater in the West End of Montreal. Later he did the theater program at John Abbott College and then Ryerson University for their Theater program.[1]
Career
Canada
After completing University he moved to Ottawa and worked at the Oddyssey theater developing skills in mask and puppet movement theater.
UK
Mullan moved to the UK on a whim after going there on vacation. He immediately started touring with theater companies all over Europe, the Middle East, and Asia doing musical productions of David Coperfield, Gulliver’s Travels and Sherlock Holmes. He later transitioned to television doing puppet for a show called Dinotopia, the effects department wanted someone to animate this dinosaur and make it emote like a person.
Ross also played Orsino in l, Bath Theatre Royal's production of Twelfth Night, the title role of the Selfish Giant for Leicester Haymarket Theatre and brought the critically acclaimed play Thick from the Edinburgh festival to New York City with sold out performances.[2]
More recent work includes Clash of the Titans where he plays Pemphredo one of the three blind Stygian witches, the White Walker on Game of thrones and The Silence and The Teller on Dr. Who.
He is currently the voice of Nev the Bear on CBBC's Bear Behaving Badly.