<Tr> <Th> Kingdom </Th> <Td> The Crownlands </Td> </Tr> <P> Gendry is a fictional character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels by American author George R.R. Martin, and its television adaptation . Game of Thrones . He is a non-POV character, first appearing in 1996's A Game of Thrones, and subsequently appeared in A Clash of Kings (1998), A Storm of Swords (2000) and A Feast for Crows (2005). Gendry is an apprentice blacksmith in King's Landing, and an unacknowledged bastard of King Robert Baratheon . </P> <P> Gendry is portrayed by English actor Joe Dempsie in the HBO television adaptation . He and the rest of the cast were nominated for Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2014 . </P> <P> Gendry was born in King's Landing and is one of sixteen bastard children of King Robert Baratheon . He is portrayed as tall and very muscled, having blue eyes and thick black hair, very similar to his biological father Robert and uncle Renly in their youth (Brienne of Tarth once almost mistook him for Renly for a moment). He is stubborn and easily confused . </P>

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