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Ever since being introduced in the fourth season of Game Of Thrones, Ellaria Sand and the Sand Snakes has been some of the more polarizing characters on the show. However, since the start of the seventh season, the Sand Snakes from Dorne have had quite a rough go, with only two of the four still alive. And given the fact that the two remaining are currently locked in a dungeon, it’s safe to assume that by the end of this season, there will be no Sand Snakes left.
So we figured it would be a good idea to take this time to appreciate Indira Varma, the actress who plays Ellaria Sand, the only bearable Sand Snake.
Varma is a British actress who made her film debut in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love. She has gone on to appear in the television series The Canterbury Tales, Rome, Luther, Human Target, and of course, Game of Thrones. In September 2016, she began starring in the ITV/Netflix series Paranoid, as DS Nina Suresh.
Ellaria Sand is a bastard from Dorne and is the paramour of Oberyn Martell’s. She is the mother of the youngest four Sand Snakes, who are Oberyn’s bastard daughters. She is a vengeful woman, and like Oberyn, bisexual.
And now that she’s in Cersei’s hands, she’s as good as dead.
