Actor Joseph Gatt, who played Thenn Warg in HBO‘s ‘Game of Thrones‘, was recently arrested for having sexually explicit chats with a minor.
TMZ, citing the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), reported that Gatt was arrested from his home in Los Angeles on April 6, after getting served a search warrant.
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The 50-year-old actor was then taken into custody and booked on for contact with a minor for a sexual offence.
He was subsequently released on the same day on $5,000 bail.
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At the of writing this article, there was no information on whether Gatt had other victims, but the LAPD’s Juvenile Division is on the lookout for other victims.
The 50-year-old actor is perhaps most famous for his role in ‘Game of Thrones’, but has also featured in several other popular television shows and movies.
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Interestingly, Gatt was a dancer in the 2003 Bollywood film ‘Kal Ho Naa Ho’, before going on to appear as Frost Giant Grundroth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s (MCU) 2011 film, ‘Thor’.
Gatt made another Bollywood appearance as Leif Lungren in ‘I Am Singh’ (2011), before going on to play Science Officer 0718 in ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’.
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In 2014, Gatt joined ‘Game of Thrones’, where he played the role of Thenn Warg in 3 episodes.
Gatt also played the role of Bogden in the ‘Church in Ruins’ episode in Season 2 of ‘True Detective’, and in 2019, played Victor Zelko in two episodes in ‘NCIS: New Orleans’.
The most recent film he appeared in was ‘Dumbo’ (2019).