Sonoya Mizuno

Sonoya Mizuno (born 1 July 1986) is a British actress, model, and ballet dancer. On television, she is known for her roles in the Netflix series Maniac (2018) and the HBO series House of the Dragon (2022–). She has worked with Alex Garland on his films Ex Machina (2014), Annihilation (2018), Men (2022), and his FX miniseries Devs (2020). Her other films include La La Land (2016), Beauty and the Beast (2017), and Crazy Rich Asians (2018). Early life Born in Tokyo, Mizuno was raised in Somerset, England. Her mother is of half English and half Argentine descent and her father is Japanese. She graduated from the Royal Ballet School before dancing with several ballet companies, including Semperoper Ballet in Dresden, Ballet Ireland, New English Ballet Theatre and Scottish Ballet. Career Mizuno took up professional modelling at age 20 with Profile Models in London and has modelled for Chanel, Alexander McQueen, Saint Laurent and Louis Vuitton. During 2014, she appeared in Arthur Pita's work of dance theatre The World's Greatest Show at Greenwich Dance and the Royal Opera House. She made her film debut in 2014, in Alex Garland's science-fiction thriller Ex Machina, and in 2016 appeared in the dance film High Strung, directed by Michael Damian. Later that year she appeared in the music video for Frank Ocean's song "Nikes" and starred in the Dom & Nic video for The Chemical Brothers' "Wide Open", featuring Beck, where she played a dancer gradually transformed into a 3-D lattice. Also in 2016, she appeared in La La Land, playing the role of Caitlin, one of the three roommates of Mia, played by Emma Stone.