page_title: Maisie Williams
section_title: Other acting roles (2012–present)
hierarchical_section_title: Maisie Williams / Acting career / Other acting roles (2012–present)
caption_attribution_description: Maisie Williams speaking at the 2015 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Game of Thrones", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
context_page_description: Margaret Constance "Maisie" Williams is an English actress. In 2011, she debuted in a professional acting role at age fourteen, starring as Arya Stark, a main-cast role in the HBO medieval fantasy epic drama series Game of Thrones, a portrayal that quickly brought the acting newcomer global attention. Williams received critical praise and accolades for her work on the show, including two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. In 2014, she starred in her first feature film, the melodramatic coming-of-age mystery drama The Falling, for which she received critical acclaim and awards recognition. In 2018, she made her stage debut in Lauren Gunderson's play I and You at the Hampstead Theatre in London, to positive critical reviews.
  Williams' other television appearances include guest starring in four episodes of the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, the British docudrama television film Cyberbully, and the British science-fiction teen thriller film iBoy.
context_section_description: In 2012, Williams took part in The Olympic Ticket Scalper a Funny or Die skit. In the same year Williams portrayed Loren Caleigh in the three part BBC supernatural thriller series The Secret of Crickley Hall. She also appeared in the independent film Heatstroke (2012), and the short film Up on the Roof (2013).
  In 2014, Williams was cast in the role of Lydia in the British melodramatic coming of age mystery film drama The Falling, set in an all-girls school, for which she was awarded the London Film Critics' Circle Award for Young Performer of the Year, Evening Standard British Film Award Rising Star and the European Shooting Stars Award at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival for her role in Carol Morley’s feature. The film premiered at the BFI London Film Festival on 11 October 2014 and was released theatrically on 24 April 2015 in the UK. Guy Lodge of Variety described Williams as "prodigiously gifted" and giving a "brilliantly articulated ... bristling, often spikily funny performance."
  In 2015, she played Abbie in the Irish comedy drama film Gold. In January 2015, Williams (a victim of cyberbullying herself) starred as Casey Jacobs in the one-hour-long BAFTA nominated Cyberbully, a Channel 4 docudrama television film. Writing for The Guardian, Filipa Jodelka described Williams' central, almost solo, performance as a "tour-de-force". In Autumn 2015, Williams guest starred in four episodes of series 9 of the BBC science fiction 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" by Patrick Mulkern of the Radio Times. 
  In 2017, Williams starred, alongside Bill Milner, as Lucy in the Netflix science-fiction teen superhero thriller film iBoy. Tristram Fane Saunders of the Daily Telegraph felt she brought "depth, humour and honesty to the role." Also in 2017, Williams appeared as Isabel Baxter in, Mary Shelley a romantic period-drama film directed by Haifaa al-Mansour and written by Emma Jensen. In 2018, she voiced the character Goona, a Bronze Age fearless rebel tomboy football enthusiast in Nick Park's animated prehistoric comedy sports film Early Man that also featured Eddie Redmayne and Tom Hiddleston, though both Gwilym Mumford of The Guardian and Kate Stables of the British Film Institute noted that her accent varied during the film. 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 eleven-minute short film Corvidae, a dark fairy tale filmed in 2013 and released in 2018, of which Craig Holton of flickfeast commented that Williams brought "an undeniably ethereal quality to this short film, helping it make the leap from grounded realism to eldritch bucolic fantasy".
  In 2019, she starred in the voice cast of gen:LOCK, an American animated web series, set in a dystopian future, which is broadcast on the Rooster Teeth subscription service. Williams voiced the role of Cammie MacCloud, a mischievous Scottish hacker, in a cast that included Michael B. Jordan, David Tennant and Dakota Fanning. Also in 2019, Williams starred alongside Asa Butterfield and Nina Dobrev in the coming of age romantic comedy-drama film Then Came You, in which she played a teenager with a terminal illness. Frank Scheck of the Hollywood Reporter felt that Williams made her "sprightly character appealingly vulnerable". The film premiered at the Woodstock Film Festival on 12 October 2018 and was released nationwide in 2019.
  Original set for release on the 13 April 2018, in late August 2020, Williams co-starred in the repeatedly delayed Disney/Fox superhero horror 
caption: Williams at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con
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