With an image that contrasts with the fierce Arya Stark which embodied in Game of Thrones, Maisie Williams She is shown today as a woman committed to social causes and creative projects.
Its public transformation includes not only a obvious physical changevisible in their social networksbut also a personal evolution marked by activism, awareness of mental health and a career that expanded beyond the television success that consecrated it from childhood.
Maisie Williams, whose full name is Margaret Constance Williamsthe April 15, 1997 in Bristol, United Kingdom. Today has 28 years. His jump to fame occurred when he had alone 12 yearswhen selected to play Arya Stark in the series Game of Thronesproduced by HBO.
Since then, his life has been marked both by international recognition and by a personal healing and activism process, especially after revealing traumatic episodes of his childhood.
Over the years, Williams has consolidated a career that covers film, television, podcast and social projects, being active and relevant in the entertainment industry and in humanitarian causes.
The filming of Game of Thrones represented a significant challenge for Maisie Williams from the beginning. She was chosen for Arya Stark’s role when she was just 12 years old, and when she played a left -handed character, she decided to use the left hand in the fighting scenes. That initial choice, which seemed less, became a growing difficulty as the combat sequences became more complex, since it had to maintain that coherence throughout the series.
Maisie Williams He was an unknown British actress until His impressive role of Arya Stark in Game of Thrones –The series that was a huge success in HBO- catapulted her to fame with only 12 years. The girl who for a long time hid the abuses she suffered from her father Gary Williams was able to solve her problems and launched a solidarity project on the web.
Williams kept pain from his father Gary Williams throughout his early childhood. His father did not live with the family, because he had separated a few years ago from his mother, Hilary Frances Pittwhen Margaret was a baby, but he was going to spend a few days a week with him.
Continuing with this, a few months ago, Williams was encouraged to tell what had happened to him when he was a child in a podcast of the journalist Steven Bartlet called “The diary of a CEO” (The newspaper of a CEO in Spanish). In the podcast, he said that her mother had had to escape from the violence she suffered from her father when she had barely turned 4 months of life, that she stopped seeing him when she was just eight years old and that she had to cross moments of her very hard childhood.
Within this context, Maisie Williams is currently involved in several projects beyond her career as an actress:
- Pódcast “Frank Film Club”: Participate in this production that is part of its activities in digital and cultural media.
- The Mazi Project: He founded this solidarity initiative that is already in operation in his hometown, Bristol. The project is aimed at marginalized young people between 16 and 25 years old and seeks to help them reconstruct their lives. They are taught to cook with sustainable ingredients, take care of their health and access the labor market.
These activities reflect their sustained interest in mental health, youth and social justice, in response to their own life history.
