The New Look to Game of Thrones: The Best Maisie Williams Performances Ranked
Since her acting debut in Game of Thrones, Maisie Williams has been at the helm of a variety of different British films and TV series. Discover our official ranking of the best Maisie Williams performances and where to stream them below.
Back in 2011, the Bristol-born actress joined the cast of HBO’s medieval fantasy series, Game of Thrones as Arya Stark. For her role in the highly-acclaimed adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s novels, Williams was nominated for numerous awards including a Primetime Emmy for Best Supporting Actress. Over the course of eight seasons, the show was nominated for the most Primetime Emmy Awards on record (for a drama series), with 59 nominations in total.
After her early success, Williams went on to receive widespread praise for her feature film debut in the coming of age drama, The Falling. For her performance, Williams won the Shooting Stars Award at the Berlin Film Festival, before securing the Evening Standard’s Rising Star Award too.
In the years that followed, the actress appeared in several episodes of the British cult classic, Doctor Who as Ashildr, fronted a docudrama titled Cyberbully and starred in a Netflix thriller, iBoy. Williams continued to demonstrate her extensive range in a host of different genres such as the period drama, Mary Shelley, a romantic comedy, Then Came You, before landing in a lead role in the dark thriller, The Owners.
Williams has also dipped her toe into animation, lending her voice to the web series, Gen: Lock and taking a lead role in Aardman’s Early Man, alongside Eddie Redmayne and Tom Hiddleston.
More recently, Williams starred as the punk rock icon Jordan in the six-part biopic about the Sex Pistols rise to fame, Pistol, and debuted in the X-Men universe as Rahne Sinclair / Wolfsbane in the superhero horror movie, The New Mutants.
The actress is also revisiting a groundbreaking era in fashion history in Apple TV+’s The New Look that follows the origins of the major fashion houses in Paris (namely Christian Dior and Coco Chanel) after World War II. Williams stars as the revolutionary Catherine Dior, daughter of Christian Dior (Ben Mendelsohn), as the series unravels the rivalry between the two famous families, beneath the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of France in the 1940s.
With an eclectic filmography to discover, here are the best Maisie Williams performances ranked and where to watch them.
