“God, I think I’ve played every role there is at this point,” Olivia Cooke quips over Zoom. “I mean, I’m even playing a grandma on House of the Dragon .”

To be fair, the 31-year-old’s playing older is a result of the show’s decades-spanning story, which has seen her character age from a young woman to, well, a young grandma. But Cooke’s right to tout her extensive resume, from her early breakthroughs in Bates Motel and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl to more recent fare like Sound of Metal and the Game of Thrones prequel series — the latter of which has made her a household name.

She’s approached that spotlight with down-to-earth affability and some very relatable nerves, too, voicing her discomfort with celebrity and, recently, telling Jimmy Fallon that her firs

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