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Freya Mavor

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Freya Mavor
Mavor in 2022
Born (1993-08-13) 13 August 1993 (age 31)
Glasgow, Scotland
EducationMary Erskine School
OccupationActress
Years active2010–present
RelativesJames Bridie
(great-grandfather)

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

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Mavor was born in Glasgow, but grew up in Inverleith, Edinburgh.[1] Her father, James Mavor, is a playwright who leads the MA screenwriting course at Napier University.[citation needed] 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.[2] 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.[3] Mavor's mother is Irish and also has some Danish ancestry.[citation needed] Mavor has two brothers, Hugo and Alex.[1] She can play the piano,[citation needed] and also speaks French.[4]

When she was nine years old, her family moved to La Rochelle, France, where she lived for four years.[5][4] She studied at Collège Eugène Fromentin in La Rochelle and at Mary Erskine School in Edinburgh,[6] In 2008, she joined the National Youth Theatre.[4] Mavor first became interested in acting after watching The Shining when she was ten years old.[1] Her first acting experience was in school productions of Shakespeare's The Tempest as Miranda[6] and in The Merchant of Venice, directed by John C. Allan, prior to a stint in the National Youth Theatre.[3][4] In 2005, she was a mezzo-soprano at the National Youth Choir of Scotland.[7]

Career

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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".[8] For her role, she was nominated for Best Actress at the TV Choice Awards 2012.[9]

Mavor became the face of Pringle of Scotland for its 2011 spring/summer campaign.[10] She also won the Fashion Icon of the Year Award at the 2011 Scottish Fashion Awards.[11] She was voted 78th in the UK edition of FHM's 100 World's Sexiest Women 2012.[12] In 2013, Screen International named her as one of the UK Stars of Tomorrow.[13]

In 2013, Mavor played Nicola Ball in the romantic comedy Not Another Happy Ending. It was first screened at the 2013 EIFF Closing Night. The film is about a writer suffering from writer's block and her publisher's campaign to get her writing again.[14] In the same year, she appeared as Liz in Sunshine on Leith, an adaptation of the stage musical based on the lyrics of The Proclaimers, first screened at TIFF 2013.[15] In 2015, she starred in Joann Sfar's French-Belgian mystery film The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun alongside Benjamin Biolay and Italian actor Elio Germano.[16] It was the first of a three consecutive French-speaking roles for Mavor, followed in 2016 by supporting roles in both Yvan Attal's satire about antisemitism Ils sont partout and the period drama Cézanne et moi, about the friendship between novelist Émile Zola and painter Paul Cézanne and starring Guillaume Canet and Guillaume Gallienne in the two leading roles.

On television, Mavor portrayed Princess Elizabeth of York in the 2013 period drama The White Queen for BBC One.[17] Later that year, she joined Will Merrick in stage production Boys at the Arcola Theatre in London.[18] Mavor's next television role was in Channel 4 historical miniseries New Worlds, where she played Jamie Dornan's love interest in a 17th-century story set in England.[19] In May 2014, she appeared in the episode "En apesanteur" ("At zero gravity") of the French TV show Casting(s) by Pierre Niney.

In 2017, Mavor had a supporting role in the mystery drama The Sense of an Ending, starring Jim Broadbent and Charlotte Rampling, then took a leading role in the romance film Modern Life Is Rubbish, which portrays the ups and downs throughout the years of a relationship between a man and a woman who share a passion for alternative rock. In 2018, she had a role in the black comedy Dead in a Week: Or Your Money Back, starring Aneurin Barnard and Tom Wilkinson. The same year she starred alongside John Malkovich in the BBC One miniseries The ABC Murders, based on the mystery novel by Agatha Christie; alongside David Kross in the biographical film The Keeper, about the life of German football player Bert Trautmann; and alongside Vincent Cassel and Olga Kurylenko in another French-language production, L'Empereur de Paris, about early 18th-century French criminalist Eugène François Vidocq, the man who's considered the first detective in history.

She also played the lead role of Catriona Miller in the 2018 Audible Original audio drama "The Darkwater Bride".

Mavor is set to make her directorial debut with the anthology film Kinked. The first chapter is written by Mavor, and stars Thalissa Teixeira, Fehinti Balogun, Skye Lourie, and Talitha Stone.[20]

Filmography

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Feature films

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Year Title Role Notes
2013 Not Another Happy Ending Nicola Ball
Sunshine on Leith Liz Henshaw
2015 The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun Dany French-language film
2016 The Jews Marie French-language film
Cézanne and I Jeanne French-language film
2017 The Sense of an Ending Young Veronica
Modern Life Is Rubbish Natalie
2018 Dead in a Week or Your Money Back Ellie
L'Empereur de Paris Annette French-language film
2019 The Keeper Margaret
Balance, Not Symmetry[21] Dolly
2022 Rogue Agent Mae Hansen
About Joan Joan Verra French-language film
My Policeman Julia
TBA Dalloway † TBA French-language film

Short films

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Year Title Role Notes
2011 Disco Girl in Queue [22]
2013 Hamburger Girl [23]
2017 Winning Marge Kim [24]

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
2011–2012 Skins Mini McGuinness E4 series, 18 episodes
Nominated — TV Choice Award for Best Actress
2013 The White Queen Princess Elizabeth of York BBC One miniseries, 3 episodes
2014 New Worlds Beth Fanshawe E4 miniseries, 4 episodes[25]
Casting(s) French-language Canal+ sitcom
2015 Virtuoso Marie TV movie directed by Alan Ball
2018 The ABC Murders Thora Grey BBC One miniseries, 3 episodes
2019 Twice Upon a Time Louise French-language ARTE miniseries, 4 episodes-
2020-present Industry Daria Greenock HBO series, Main Cast[26]

Stage

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Year Title Role Notes
2013 Boys Sophie Arcola Theatre
2016 Good Canary Annie Parker Rose Theatre

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Freya Mavor interview". SkinsFansite. 19 January 2011. Archived from the original on 9 February 2011. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
  2. ^ "Freya Mavor Skins Actress". The Scotsman. 27 January 2011. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
  3. ^ a b "The new star of Skins - Freya". SkinsFansite. Archived from the original on 27 October 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
  4. ^ a b c d Christie, Janet (27 July 2013). "Freya Mavor: 'The best female characters are mad'". The Scotsman. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
  5. ^ "Discovery: Freya Mavor". Interview Magazine. 29 March 2017.
  6. ^ a b Leonard, Sue (2012) In Tune with the Times Archived 8 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine The Sunday Times, Retrieved 8 March 2014
  7. ^ "Freya Mavor Credits". hamiltonhodell. Retrieved 31 August 2012.
  8. ^ "Freya Mavor plays Mini - Channel 4 - Info - Press".
  9. ^ "Nominations TV Choice Awards 2012". tvchoicemagazine. Archived from the original on 27 May 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
  10. ^ Milligan, Lauren. "Pringle's Girl". Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
  11. ^ "STV programmes news and information". Archived from the original on 29 May 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
  12. ^ Gold, Adam (2 May 2012). "100 sexiest women in the world 2012". FHM. Archived from the original on 5 May 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
  13. ^ "Screen unveils 2013 UK Stars of Tomorrow.She said in an interview that she hated Niall Horan from One Direction"
  14. ^ "Shooting begins in Glasgow on Not Another Happy Ending". Screendaily.
  15. ^ Kemp, Stuart (5 November 2012). "The Proclaimers Musical Adaptation 'Sunshine on Leith' Begins Filming". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
  16. ^ Lemercier, Fabien (27 October 2014). "La Dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil in post-production". Cineuropa. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
  17. ^ "The White Queen, a new ten-part drama for BBC One". BBC. 31 August 2012. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
  18. ^ Jeffery, Morgan (7 October 2013). "Will Merrick, Freya Mavor on new play 'Boys', 'Skins' and what's next". Digital Spy. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  19. ^ "Young cast announced for New Worlds". ScreenTerrier. 19 July 2013. Archived from the original on 3 July 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  20. ^ "Freya Mavor's directorial debut 'Kink' signs Star of Tomorrow Thalissa Teixeira (exclusive)". Screen Daily. 28 February 2022. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
  21. ^ Grater, Tom (5 October 2018). "Laura Harrier, Bria Vinaite, Lily Newmark board 'Balance, Not Symmetry' with Biffy Clyro (exclusive)". Screen International. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  22. ^ "Disco short film". IMDb Pro. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
  23. ^ "Hamburger, short film with Freya Mavor". youtube. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
  24. ^ "Winning Marge". maxlincolnfilm.com. Archived from the original on 10 April 2019. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  25. ^ "New Worlds". E4. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  26. ^ "Industry". IMDb.
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