1. Kaya Scodelario first came to prominence co-starring on E4's Skins, receiving two Golden Nymph nominations for her portrayal of Effy Stonem.
27 Facts About Kaya Scodelario
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Kaya Scodelario then took on leading roles in a variety of films, such as Wuthering Heights, the Maze Runner series, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Crawl, and Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City.
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Scodelario was born Kaya Rose Humphrey on 13 March 1992, in Haywards Heath, West Sussex.
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Kaya Scodelario's mother, Katia Scodelario, is a Brazilian who had worked as an accountant in Itu, Sao Paulo, and had moved to England in 1990; Scodelario's surname comes from her mother's Italian grandfather.
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Kaya Scodelario's parents divorced when Scodelario was one year old, and her mother took her to London when she was four.
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Kaya Scodelario attended St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Highgate Hill and she attended Bishop Douglass Catholic School and then Islington Arts and Media School.
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Kaya Scodelario participated in school plays and found drama an escape from bullying.
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Kaya Scodelario's mother took on multiple jobs to make ends meet and had clinical depression that worsened during Scodelario's teen years.
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Kaya Scodelario said she wanted to help, but did not know how, and moved to a flat in Camden.
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In 2006, at age 14 and with no acting experience, Kaya Scodelario was cast in the first series of Skins as Effy Stonem.
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Kaya Scodelario eventually became the central character in the third and fourth series after the cast had been replaced by a new generation of characters.
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Kaya Scodelario made her film debut in the science fiction-thriller film Moon, which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, receiving positive reviews.
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The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2011 to generally positive reviews, and Kaya Scodelario was hailed as a "heart-wrenching revelation".
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In September 2011, Kaya 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.
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Kaya Scodelario is cast in the third storyline as Karen, the love interest of her teacher, portrayed by Billie Piper.
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In January 2012, Kaya Scodelario made her first American film, The Truth About Emanuel, in Los Angeles.
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Kaya Scodelario participated in an advertising campaign for Korean jewelry brand J Estina.
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Kaya Scodelario signed on to the film franchise The Maze Runner in April 2013 as the lead female character, Teresa, in the first film, based on the novel of the same name by James Dashner.
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Kaya Scodelario filmed the lead role in the film adaptation of The Moon and the Sun in 2014, but the film was not released until 2022, under the title The King's Daughter.
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Kaya Scodelario starred in the home-invasion thriller Tiger House, released in 2015, and had a starring role in the sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, which was released on 26 May 2017.
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Kaya Scodelario reprised the role of Teresa in Maze Runner: The Death Cure.
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Kaya Scodelario then signed up to lead a new Netflix series, an edgy figure skating drama called Spinning Out in 2019.
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In spring 2019, Kaya Scodelario became the face of Cartier's new jewelry line, Clash de Cartier, and filmed the latest Agatha Christie miniseries adaptation, The Pale Horse, for Amazon and BBC.
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Kaya Scodelario filmed two series for Netflix in 2023: The Gentlemen, inspired by the Guy Ritchie film of the same name, and Senna, a biographical drama about the Brazilian Formula One driver Ayrton Senna, where she played a fictional, though important character of a reporter called Laura Harrison.
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Kaya Scodelario dated her Skins co-star Jack O'Connell for about a year before they split up in June 2009, remaining good friends.
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Kaya Scodelario was in a relationship with Elliott Tittensor from late 2009 to early 2014.
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On 18 September 2021, Kaya Scodelario announced she was pregnant with her second child.