Kaya Scodelario

Her mother, Katia Scodelario, is a Brazilian national who had worked as an accountant in Itu, São Paulo, and had moved to England in 1990; Scodelario's surname comes from her mother's Italian grandfather.

Kaya Rose Scodelario-Davis (née Humphrey; born 13 March 1992 ) is a British actress.

Scodelario was born Kaya Rose Humphrey on 13 March 1992, in Haywards Heath, West Sussex.

In 2006, at the age of 14 and with no acting experience, Scodelario was cast in the first series of Skins as Effy Stonem.

At the auditions, Scodelario became discouraged as she felt she was too young, but a producer told her to stay and she was asked to read for the part.

While Scodelario's role in the first series had minimal speaking lines, her character developed considerably during the second series.

She eventually became the central character in the third and fourth series after the cast had been replaced with a new generation of characters.

This made Effy one of the only characters to appear from series 1 all the way through to series 4.

She first came to prominence co-starring on E4's Skins (2007–2010, 2013), receiving two Golden Nymph nominations for her portrayal of Effy Stonem.

Filming began in July and Scodelario said that 18 November 2009 was her last day of filming the series and that she would miss being on the show.

Her performance was praised by critics, and she was nominated twice for Best Actress at the TV Quick Awards, in 2009 and 2010.

In the episode "Fire", one of three parts of the seventh (and final) season of Skins, Scodelario reprised the role of Effy.

It is a two-part depiction of her life as an adult, lasting two hours.

She claims "Fire" is "more like a movie" and that she could relate to Effy's struggle to change from a teenager into an adult.

Scodelario made her film debut in the science fiction-thriller film Moon, which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, receiving positive reviews.

Her father, Roger Humphrey, was English and died in November 2010.

Her parents divorced when Scodelario was one year old, and her mother took her to London when she was four.

They spent their first night on the street before finding a council flat on Holloway Road.

Scodelario adopted her mother's surname and spoke Portuguese at home.

She attended Bishop Douglass Catholic School and then Islington Arts and Media School.

She participated in school plays and found drama an escape from bullying.

Her mother took on multiple jobs to make ends meet and had clinical depression that worsened during Scodelario's teen years.

Scodelario said she wanted to help, but did not know how at the time and moved out to a flat in Camden.

In her second film, Shank, released on 26 March 2010, she played teenager Tasha.

In addition, she appeared in the 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans as Peshet.

In April 2010, Scodelario confirmed her casting as Cathy in an adaptation of Wuthering Heights directed by Andrea Arnold.

She then took on leading roles in a variety of films, such as Wuthering Heights (2011), the Maze Runner series (2014–2018), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017), Crawl (2019), and Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021).

The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September 2011 to generally positive reviews, and Scodelario was hailed as a "heart-wrenching revelation".

Wuthering Heights also played at several other international film festivals, including the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, the London Film Festival, and the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

In 2011, she signed on to play Sally Weaver in a British thriller, Twenty8k.

In late September 2011, Scodelario filmed a television serial for BBC One, True Love, an improvised series comprising five stand-alone episodes, each covering a different love-related dilemma.

She is cast in the third storyline as Karen, the love interest of her teacher, portrayed by Billie Piper.

The film was released in September 2012.

In late June, Scodelario announced that she had signed on to star in Now Is Good with Dakota Fanning.

The film is based on Jenny Downham's novel Before I Die, about a teenage girl with leukaemia who makes a list of things to do before she dies.

She portrays Zoey, the protagonist's best friend.

In January 2012, Scodelario made her first American film, The Truth About Emanuel, in Los Angeles.

She stars as the title character, Emanuel, a troubled 17-year-old girl who babysits her new neighbour Linda's "baby", which is actually a very lifelike doll.

In April 2012, Scodelario shot a cameo appearance for the film Spike Island.

It had a limited Release on 10 January 2014.