Sonoya Mizuno

Sonoya Mizuno (born 1 July 1986) is a British actress. She is known for her roles in the Netflix series Maniac (2018), the HBO series House of the Dragon (2022–), the FX miniseries Devs (2020) and the film 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. She 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.

Whilst modeling, she took acting classes and 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.

In 2017, Mizuno appeared in a small role as the debutante in Disney's live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, and in 2018, she acted in the Warner Bros. film Crazy Rich Asians.

She has appeared in television/streaming roles including Cary Joji Fukunaga's Maniac on Netflix. In 2018, she took the lead role of Lily Chan in Alex Garland's miniseries for FX, Devs. In 2024, she appeared in Alex Garland's war drama Civil War.

Mizuno has worked with Alex Garland five times: as the lead of Devs, as a supporting character in Ex Machina and Civil War, and as a featured extra in Annihilation and Men.