Maisie Williams
Maisie Williams was born on April 15, 1997. She is best known for her role as Arya Stark in HBO’s Game of Thrones, which is currently filming it’s seventh season. The role earned her two Portal awards in 2012 for best supporting actress and best young actor in television - the youngest actor to achieve this – and were followed in 2013, by the Radio 1 Teen Award for Best British Actor and an Emmy nomination in 2016. In 2014 Maisie was named as one of the UK’s international screen stars of tomorrow and also picked up a European Shooting Star Award at the Berlin Film Festival for her role in Carol Morley’s feature The Falling. In 2016 She received the London Critic’s Circle Award for Best Young performer and The Evening Standard Rising Star Award for the same role. Her portrayal of teen-ager Casey, in Channel 4’s CyberBully, prompted critical acclaim and a BAFTA nomination for best single drama. Maisie recently completed filming on S7 of Game of Thrones and is currently providing the voice for Goona opposite Eddie RedMayne’s Dugin Aardman’s Early Man.
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