VIDEO : Emilia Clarke's Journey To Becoming Mother of Dragons on 'Game of Thrones'

Just a few short years ago, actress Emilia Clarke had just two filming credits on her résumé: walk-on roles on a soap opera and a made-for-TV movie. Now the Mother of Dragons earns a reported $500,000 per episode on "Game of Thrones," the most-watched show in HBO history. Let's take a look back at how Clarke rose to fame. Melia Robinson contributed to a previous version of this post. 1/20 Born in the fall of 1986, Emilia Clarke grew up in the picturesque county of Buckinghamshire, in the south of England.