page_title: Kaya Scodelario
section_title: 2007–2009: Skins
hierarchical_section_title: Kaya Scodelario / Career / 2007–2009: Skins
caption_attribution_description: English: Cropped image of Kaya Scodelario, 2009
context_page_description: Kaya Rose Scodelario-Davis is an English actress of Brazilian descent. She is best known for her roles as Effy Stonem on the E4 teen drama Skins, and Teresa in The Maze Runner film series. Other roles include Catherine Earnshaw in Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, Carol Ann Boone in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, and Katarina Baker in Netflix’s Original Spinning Out.
context_section_description: In 2007, 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 2008. She eventually became the central character in the 2009 and 2010 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. 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.
  Scodelario left after the fourth series, making way for the third generation of characters. 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.
caption: Scodelario in 2009
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