Peter Claffey

Peter Claffey (born 28 July 1996) is an Irish actor and former rugby union player.

Early life
Claffey is from Portumna, in County Galway, he attended Garbally College and played rugby union for Galwegians RFC.

Rugby union
Claffey played rugby union for Ballinasloe RFC in the Connacht Senior League. A lock forward, he joined the Connacht Rugby academy in 2015. He played for Ireland national under-20 rugby union team in the 2016 Six Nations Under 20s Championship. He signed a professional contract with Connacht Rugby in 2018. In 2019, he signed for Terenure College.

Acting
Claffey trained in acting trained at the Bow Street Academy in Dublin. He made his professional stage debut in 2022 playing Iggy in Tom Murphy’s A Whistle in the Dark at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.

His onscreen career began in 2022 with television appearances on the shows Harry Wild and Apple TV dark comedy Bad Sisters. That year, he played Cormac in BBC Three comedy series Wreck, for which he filmed a second series in 2023.

Claffey appears in the third series of Vikings: Valhalla and the Cillian Murphy led film-adaptation of Small Things Like These.

In April 2024, Claffey was cast in the Game of Thrones prequel series in the lead role of the legendary Ser Duncan the Tall—aka Dunk, in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight, written by George R. R. Martin and Ira Parker. It is set a century before the events of Game of Thrones, but 72 years after the start of House of the Dragon.