Maisie Williams

Williams is set to star as Marvel's Rahne Sinclair / Wolfsbane, a Scottish mutant who can turn into a wolf and struggles to reconcile this with her religious beliefs, in the repeatedly delayed Disney/Fox horror film in the superhero genre The New Mutants. The film is now scheduled to be released in the United States on August 28, 2020, after being pushed back due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. Later in 2020, she is due to star as Kim Noakes, a misfit on the run from a murderous gangster and the police, in Two Weeks to Live (a six-part dark comedy series, alongside actress Sian Clifford. The six-part UK series Written by Gaby Hull and produced by Kudos for Sky UK). Also planned for 2020, Williams will feature in a 1990s-set thriller titled The Owners, in which she plays a young woman who reluctantly agrees to participate in a botched robbery alongside her delinquent, no-hoper boyfriend. The film is directed by French director Julius Berg and is adapted from the graphic novel Une Nuit De Pleine Lune by Belgian artist Hermann and writer Yves H.

Williams is also an Internet entrepreneur. In 2019, she co-launched the social media platform Daisie, designed for creative people to network and collaborate on creative projects and help new artists and creators to gain exposure for their work, and to connect them with potential mentors.

In May 2019 Daisie raised £2 million ($2.5 million) in seed funding from Founders Fund, 8VC, Kleiner Perkins, and from the newer venture capital firm Shrug Capital, set up by AngelList's former head of marketing Niv Dror, who also separately invested. 11 days after the public launch, in May 2019, the number of users reached 100,000, most of whom were in London, as the bulk of its marketing efforts have taken place in the startup's home city; with 70 per cent of user base being female.

In 2019, Williams presented a TEDx talk in Manchester on the topic "Don't strive to be famous, strive to be talented", where she discussed Daisie.

Williams has 'cultivated a quirky, youthful' 'Street style', who as a celebrity has been courted by the fashion industry. In 2019 Williams and Reuben Selby appeared on the fashion scene as a couple, regularly in coordinated ensembles. She shares a mutual love for design with Selby, who is a fashion designer (he co-designed Williams' asymmetric dress for the 2019 Emmys awards), the founder of a modelling agency, co-founder of creative agency and former communications director of his girlfriend's social media platform Daisie. The Guardian noted in 2018 that Williams was popular on social media, with almost 2 million followers on Twitter, and nearly 8.4 million followers on Instagram.

Her character progressed 'from cute little sister to ruthless serial killer (of 64 victims)', Arya was "the serial killer everyone's rooting for." As one of the central protagonists in Game of Thrones, Williams character's story arc is one of trauma, tragedy and revenge, 'a pocket-sized killing machine' with a list of those who wronged her family and friends, before she finally heroically kills the Night King and his entire army with one strike, saving Westeros. Williams appeared in all eight broadcast seasons, in July 2018, she announced the completion of her role in series. The final episode aired in May 2019.

In 2017 Williams played Isabel Baxter in Mary Shelley a romantic period-drama film directed by Haifaa al-Mansour and written by Emma Jensen. In 2018 she was the voice actor for the character Goona a Bronze Age tomboy football enthusiast in Nick Park's animated prehistoric comedy adventure, Early Man alongside Eddie Redmayne and Tom Hiddleston. From 18 October to 24 November 2018, Williams starred as Caroline in the stage play I and You, which was written by Lauren Gunderson. The play premiered at the Hampstead Theatre in London. The play did well at the box office and Willliams stage performance was regarded a critical success, with the production later being broadcast free on Instagram from 30 November to 3 December 2018 and again during the last week of March 2020. She also starred in the short film Corvidae, a dark fairy tale that had been filmed in 2013 and was released in 2018.

In 2019 she starred in the voice cast of gen:LOCK, an animated series on the Rooster Teeth subscription service. Williams voices the role of Cammie MacCloud, a mischievous Scottish hacker, alongside a cast that includes Michael B. Jordan, David Tennant and Dakota Fanning. Also in 2019 Williams starred alongside Asa Butterfield and Nina Dobrev in the teen drama film Then Came You, in which she played a teenager with a terminal illness. The film premiered at the Woodstock Film Festival on 12 October 2018 and was released nationwide in 2019.

On 1 August 2018, Williams and Santry, launched the beta version of a new iOS-compatible social media app called Daisie. Daisie is aimed at creative people from the across the creative industries, including art, fashion, TV, film, photography, music and literature. Its aim is to help foster collaboration amongst creatives across those various industries and provide an alternative route for new talent into those creative industries. The app is about users to building connections (‘chains’) rather than individuals gaining high follower popularity counts typical of most other social media apps. Williams said "Our main goal is to have a community of artists who are collaborating with each other, uploading their work, sharing their projects and ultimately ... help people with their own careers, rather than our own". She also explained in 2019 that Daisie's focus is on giving the power back to the creator. "Instead of [creators] having to market themselves to fit someone else's idea of what their job would be, they can let their art speak for themselves." The company is based in Shoreditch, a district in the East End of London.

Williams set up Daisy Chain Productions in early 2016 with Dom Santry and Bill Milner (both of whom she met during working on iBoy) to develop and produce UK-originated short films, theatrical features and high-end television drama, with a focus on opportunities for youth and development of talent in the UK. Stealing Silver was the company's first production.

Williams guest starred as Ashildr in four episodes of the science fiction series Doctor Who (2015) and voices the main role of Cammie MacCloud in the animated series Gen:Lock (2019–present). Williams made her feature film debut in the mystery drama The Falling (2014), for which she won the London Film Critics' Circle Award for Young Performer of the Year. She has since starred in the thriller iBoy (2017), the animated comedy Early Man (2018), and the romantic drama Then Came You (2019). She made her stage debut in Lauren Gunderson's 2018 play I and You at Hampstead Theatre.

In 2015 Williams delivered a feminist speech in New York at the launch of Always's 'Like a girl' campaign aimed at her fellow Generation Z . She sang "Let It Go", from the film Frozen, in an Audi commercial that aired during the broadcast of Superbowl LIV in early February 2020.

In 2014, Williams portrayed Lydia in the British film The Falling, which premiered on 11 October 2014, and was released on 24 April 2015 in the UK. In the same year, she also played Abbie in the Irish comedy drama film Gold. In January 2015, Williams appeared in one-off Channel 4 docu-drama Cyberbully, and in February she received European recognition with a Shooting Stars Award at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. In Autumn 2015, Williams guest starred in four episodes in series 9 of the BBC series Doctor Who (The Girl Who Died, The Woman Who Lived, Face the Raven and Hell Bent), in the recurring role of Ashildr, a Viking girl made immortal by the Doctor. Williams's performance in The Woman Who Lived was described as "superb".

Williams received critical acclaim for her performance in the series, especially in the show's second season and final season. HBO submitted Williams for consideration in the Outstanding Supporting Actress category for the 2012 Primetime Emmy Awards, although she did not receive a nomination. She won the 2012 Portal Award for Best Supporting Actress – Television, and the Portal Award for Best Young Actor. At 15 years of age, Williams was the youngest actress ever to win in the Best Supporting Actress category. In March 2013, she was nominated for a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Series – Supporting Young Actress for her work on the show and, in November 2013, won the BBC Radio 1 Teen Award for Best British Actor. In 2015 she won the Empire Hero Award and the Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Television Series In 2016 she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Her performance in final season of the drama (despite the Eighth season's mixed reviews) in 2019 resulted in her again winning the Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor in a Television Series as well as nominations for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series; Best Hero and Best Fight in the MTV Movie & TV Awards and People's Choice Awards for The Female TV Star and The Drama TV Star.

The personal forename Arya is a real world name for both sexes of Sanskrit and Persian origins long used in South Asia. In 2012, the girls name Arya, became the fastest-rising baby girl's name in the U.S., jumping in popularity from 711th to 413th position, largely due to the popularity of Williams' character "Arya Stark". The name also entered the top 200 most commonly used names for baby girls born in England and Wales in 2017. Though naturally some of the rise in popularity in the west, could have been partly due to the migration of South Asians to the west.

In 2012, Williams played Loren Caleigh in the BBC supernatural thriller series The Secret of Crickley Hall and appeared in a Funny or Die skit titled The Olympic Ticket Scalper. She also appeared in the independent film Heatstroke (2012), and the short film Up On The Roof (2013).

In 2011, Williams (then aged 14 years) made her professional acting debut as Arya Stark, a tomboyish young girl from a noble family, in the HBO fantasy drama television series Game of Thrones (based on George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire epic fantasy novel series). Chosen from a pool of 300 actresses across England, she nearly missed the audition, because it clashed with a school trip to a pig farm.

Margaret Constance "Maisie" Williams (born 15 April 1997) is an English actress. At the age of fourteen she made her professional acting debut and rose to international prominence as Arya Stark, a main cast role in the award winning HBO fantasy television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019). Williams received critical praise for her performance in the series, winning the EWwy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama and the Portal Award for Best Supporting Actress – Television and Best Young Actor, as well as the Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor twice. She was also twice nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, in 2016 and 2019.