Emilia Clarke and her mother Jenny are made MBEs for founding a brain injury recovery charity after the Game Of Thrones star suffered two aneurysms

Emilia Clarke has been made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) alongside her mother Jenny for their brain injury charity work.

The actress, 37, and her mother Jenny decided to set up brain injury recovery charity SameYou after Emilia survived two brain haemorrhages.

Emilia and her mother Jenny have now been recognised for their charity work as they were made MBEs as part of the New Years Honours.

Emilia said it was ‘life-enhancing and magical’ to see her mother, who has also had surgery to remove a brain aneurysm, recognised for her charity work alongside her.

‘To have this near-death experience and to have gone through the sort of the darkness of it all, and then come out of it, we’re so lucky.’

Emilia first had a bleed on her brain in 2011, just after the first series of Game Of Thrones had finished filming, and she lost her ability to speak as she almost slipped into a coma.

Her second bleed in 2013 needed surgery after scans showed it had doubled in size, and Emilia has previously told how she was in the ‘really small minority’ of people who have survived and been left with ‘no repercussions’.