Sonoia Mizuno is an English actress, model and former ballerina. Despite the fact that at the moment she was shot only in secondary roles, her acting career is rapidly going uphill. She took part in one of the most high-profile and successful film projects of recent years - in the films "From the Car" in 2014, "La La Land" in 2016, "Beauty and the Beast" in 2017, and "Insanely Rich Asians" in 2018. and the series "Maniac" in 2018 from Netflix.
Early life
Sonoia Mizuno was born on July 1, 1986 in Tokyo, Japan. Her father is Japanese, and her mother has English and Argentine roots. The future actress spent her childhood in the UK, in the city of Somerset. When she was 9 years old, she went to a ballet school. Sonoia Mizuno was educated at the Royal Ballet School, located in London. The school is one of the most famous educational institutions, whose graduates are a huge success not only in the field of ballet, but also in the field of television and cinema. Despite ten years spent in school and good results in ballet, she admitted in an interview with Interview Magazine that her acting career was always her main ambition in life.
Shot from the movie "From the Car", 2014
Carier start
The first steps on the career ladder of Sonoia Mizuno are connected with work in several ballet troupes. The actress worked at the Semper Opera House (Dresden, Germany), the Irish Ballet Company, the Scottish Ballet Company and the New English Ballet Theater.
When she was 20 years old, Sonoya Mizuno signed a contract with the modeling agency Profile Models in London and in parallel continued her ballet career. Sonya Mizuno was very popular in the modeling business. She managed to take part in advertising campaigns for such world-famous companies as Chanel, Alexander McQueen, Sen Lauren and Louis Viton.
In 2014, her ballet career ended with performances at the Royal Covent Garden Theater and participation in the acclaimed choreography by Arthur Pete's The Greatest Show in the World in Greenwich Dance.
Shot from the film "La La Land", 2016
Actor career
The actress made her acting debut in 2012 in the little-known film "Venus in Eros" as an extras.
The first significant film in the biography of Sonoia Mizuno was the loud directorial debut of Alex Garland "From the Car" in 2014. The novice actress got the secondary role of the female robot Kyoko, who helps the robot Ave to kill his creator and leave the laboratory under the guise of a man.
In 2015, the actress starred in an English short film about the priest Katatsumuri, directed by Steve Crowhurst.
In 2016, Sonoya Mizuno starred in three films. In Damien Chazel’s Oscar-winning film “La La Land”, she had an episodic role with dances and songs as one of the neighbors of the main character of the movie Mia Dolan. The actress got more voluminous roles in film projects less known to the world community. She starred in the English thriller Street Cats as Susie. And in the musical drama "Nerves to the Limit, " Sonoya Mizuno performed one of the key roles of the dancer Jezzie.
In 2017, the actress again got a cameo role in a major Hollywood musical project - Billy Condon’s adaptation of the classic Disney story Beauty and the Beast.
Shot from the movie "Madly Rich Asians", 2018
In 2018, four films were already released on the screens of cinemas with the participation of Sonya Mizuno. Two of them have received wide worldwide distribution and recognition by both viewers and critics. In the new film by Alex Garland, the actress again got the opportunity to successfully collaborate with the director in the film "Annihilation". Sonya Mizuno performed two roles at once - the role of Katie and the role of a humanoid. Another successful project was unexpectedly the film "Insanely Rich Asians." Easy summer comedy gained frenzied audience success. Sonoia Mizuno played one of the key roles of Araminta Lee, the bride of the best friend of the protagonist of the film and the heiress of the billion-dollar resort network.
The triumphant of the Tribeca festival “All About Nina” and the post-apocalyptic horror film “Local”, in which Sonoya Mizuno also played secondary roles, became less loud and successful at the box office.
In addition to four roles in feature films, Sonya Mizuno appeared on the small screen in the miniseries released by Netflix. The series "Maniac" has become one of the most ambitious projects of 2018. The director of the series was Carey Fukunaga, who was famous earlier for filming the first season of the series "True Detective." The black comedy about two heroes traveling across fictional universes with Emma Stone and John Hill in the lead roles was warmly received by both viewers and critics. Sonoia Mizuno performed the role of Dr. Azumi Fujita in the series, significant in timing and significance for the plot. The character of the actress leads a scientific study in which the main characters of the miniseries participate. Sonya Mizuno and Emma Stone worked together for the second time on one project, the first project was the film "La La Land".
Shot from the series "Maniac", 2018
Filming in music videos
In 2016, Sonoya Mizuno took part in the filming of two music videos. She performed the title dance part in the video for the song "Wide Open", performed by the English band The Chemical Brothers in a duet with American singer Beck.
In the same year, Sonoya Mizuno took part in the filming of the video "Nikes" by American rapper Frank Ocean.
