Do we like Iain Glen?
Our score: 6 out of 10. Nothing harmful or dodgy turned up, but the record is quiet and there's not much on his views or causes to push the score higher.
Iain Glen is the Scottish actor most people know as Ser Jorah Mormont, the exiled knight who trailed after Daenerys in Game of Thrones. He grew up in Edinburgh and studied English at the University of Aberdeen, where the student drama society was, in his words, his “introduction to acting”.
On the scandal front, there's honestly nothing. I searched for court cases, lawsuits and allegations and found no reporting of any against him. The only stories of any heat are about other people with similar names, so don't let a stray Glover headline fool you.
On the harm test, I went looking for anything he's said about trans people, women, migrants, vaccines or the climate, and came up empty. No rants, no culture-war posts and no donations to anyone grim turned up in the reporting I could reach. A quiet record is not a glowing one, and I'd rather say so than invent a stance.
His interviews read as a working actor talking about the job. At the 2019 Game of Thrones premiere he talked about how fans misread Jorah's story and joked that he'd taken a couple of rings from the set but “asked permission”. It's cheerful and a bit cheeky rather than anything with an edge.
His recent work includes Quezon, the TBA Studios biopic of the Philippine president Manuel Quezon, where he was cast as the American governor-general Leonard Wood. That's a big Filipino production, and a decent one to be part of for P-pop and Philippines fans. I found no sign that his recent projects tie him to anyone pushing harm.