content: '''Gilly''' is a fictional character in the ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin, and its television adaptation ''Game of Thrones''.
  Introduced in 1998's ''A Clash of Kings'', she is a wildling from the wild lands north of the Wall who is befriended by Samwell Tarly and Jon Snow. She subsequently appeared in Martin's ''A Storm of Swords'' (2000), ''A Feast for Crows'' (2005), ''A Dance with Dragons'' (2011), and will appear in the upcoming novel ''The Winds of Winter''.
  Gilly is portrayed by Hannah Murray in the HBO television adaptation.