Sonoya Mizuno

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“mysaria veers quite far away from the character in the book, which is both liberating and a challenge for me. She is a self-made woman who is also making a lot of mistakes. There was something very human about her journey. It felt very relatable in terms of being a woman in her twenties and thirties, learning what you want and not pleasing other people. and realizing where your power truly lies.”

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ALSO KNOWN FOR

Ex Machina (2014)

Devs (2020)

La La Land (2016)

Crazy Rich Asians (2018)

Sonoya Mizuno is a Japanese-born British actress, model and dancer who was born on the 1st of July, 1986 in Tokyo, Japan. Mizuno was raised in Somerset, England. Her mother is of half British and half Argentine descent and her father is Japanese. She graduated from the Royal Ballet School before dancing with several ballet companies, including Semperoper Ballet in Dresden, Germany as well as Ballet Ireland, New English Ballet Theatre and the Scottish Ballet. Mizuno is best known for her roles in Alex Garland's works, such as the science-fiction films Ex Machina (2014) and Annihilation (2018), as well as his limited series Devs (2020).

Mizuno took up professional modelling at the age of twenty with Profile Models in London and has modeled for Chanel, Alexander McQueen, Saint Laurent and Louis Vuitton. During 2014, she appeared in Arthur Pita's work of dance theatre The World's Greatest Show at Greenwich Dance and the Royal Opera House. Mizuno then made her film debut in Alex Garland's science-fiction thriller Ex Machina in 2014, opposite Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander and Oscar Isaac. She later co-starred alongside Keenan Kampa, Nicholas Galitzine and Jane Seymour in the dance film High Strung, directed by Michael Damian, which was released in 2016. Also in 2016, Mizuno was the featured dancer in the music video for "Wide Open" by The Chemical Brothers and Beck, and appeared in the music video for Frank Ocean's song "Nikes". Later in 2016, she appeared in the Oscar-nominated musical film La La Land as the role of Caitlin, one of the three roommates of Mia, played by Emma Stone. In 2017, Mizuno then appeared in a small role opposite Emma Watson in Disney's live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. In 2018, she appeared in the Warner Bros. film Crazy Rich Asians, starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding and Michelle Yeoh, and then reunited with director Alex Garland in Netflix’s psychological sci-fi film Annihilation, starring Natalie Portman. Also in 2018, she co-starred in Cary Joji Fukunaga's Maniac for Netflix, and in 2020, Mizuno took the lead role of Lily Chan in Alex Garland's FX techno-thriller miniseries Devs. In August of 2021, it was announced that Mizuno had joined the cast as Mysaria in HBO’s House of the Dragon, a prequel spinoff of the hit fantasy series Game of Thrones, which is set to premiere in August of 2022.