Margaret Constance Maisie Williams is an English actress. She made her professional acting debut as Arya Stark in the HBO fantasy television series Game of Thrones, for which she won the EWwy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama, the Portal Award for Best Supporting Actress Television and Best Young Actor, and the Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor.
Williams was born in Bristol, UK. She has always been known as Maisie after the character from the comic strip The Perishers. Williams is the youngest of four children, her three older siblings being James, Beth and Ted. Born to Hilary Pitt , a former university course administrator, she grew up in Clutton, Somerset. She attended Clutton Primary School and Norton Hill School in Midsomer Norton, before moving to Bath Dance College to study Performing Arts.
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