Ed Sheeran cameoed as a Lannister soldier in the season 7 premiere, “Dragonstone.”
The episode is the first of Game of Thrones’ seventh season and aired on July 16, 2017. Sheeran appears as a soldier named Eddie, singing with fellow Lannister troops while Arya Stark travels through the Riverlands. Arya briefly joins the group and shares food and conversation with them before continuing her journey.
The cameo was deliberately kept separate from Sheeran’s real-life identity: within the story, he is simply a young soldier in the army serving House Lannister. The scene became widely discussed because Sheeran was already one of the world’s most recognizable recording artists, making the appearance difficult for viewers to treat as an anonymous extra.
“Dragonstone” also features Daenerys Targaryen’s return to Westeros, her arrival at Dragonstone and the opening of her campaign against Cersei. The cameo is sometimes confused with appearances by other musicians in the series, but Harry Styles, Sam Smith and Chris Martin did not play this Lannister role.