Freya Mavor

Freya Mavor (born 13 August 1993) is a Scottish actress. She is best known for her roles as Mini McGuinness in the E4 teen drama Skins and Daria Greenock in the HBO finance drama series Industry. Early life Mavor was born in Glasgow, but grew up in Inverleith, Edinburgh. Her father, James Mavor, is a playwright who leads the MA screenwriting course at Napier University. Her grandfather, named Ronald Bingo Mavor, was The Scotsman's theatre critic in the early 1960s before he became the director of the Scottish Arts Council. Her great-grandfather, James Bridie (real name Osborne Mavor), changed the Scottish theatrical landscape by setting up in 1950 a college of drama, the forerunner of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Mavor's mother is Irish and also has some Danish ancestry. Mavor has two brothers, Hugo and Alex. She can play the piano, and also speaks French. When she was nine years old, her family moved to La Rochelle, France, where she lived for four years. She studied at Collège Eugène Fromentin in La Rochelle and at Mary Erskine School in Edinburgh, In 2008, she joined the National Youth Theatre. Mavor first became interested in acting after watching The Shining when she was ten years old. Her first acting experience was in school productions of Shakespeare's The Tempest as Miranda and in The Merchant of Venice, directed by John C. Allan, prior to a stint in the National Youth Theatre. In 2005, she was a mezzo-soprano at the National Youth Choir of Scotland. Career In 2011, Mavor made her professional debut as Mini McGuinness in the fifth and sixth series of E4 drama Skins. She described her character as "quite a feisty and witty figure, but she doesn't really think about the consequences of her actions". For her role, she was nominated for Best Actress at the TV Choice Awards 2012.