Sonoya Mizuno
Biography
Sonoya Mizuno is an English actress who trained at the Royal Ballet School and danced with companies including Semperoper Ballet, Ballet Ireland and Scottish Ballet. She began professional modeling at 20 with Profile Models in London, working for Chanel, Alexander McQueen and Louis Vuitton, while taking acting classes. Her film debut came in Alex Garland's science-fiction thriller Ex Machina (2015), and she went on to appear in the dance film High Strung (2016), La La Land (2016), Crazy Rich Asians (2018) and Civil War (2024). On television she had roles in the Netflix series Maniac, the FX miniseries Devs, in which she played the lead, and the HBO series House of the Dragon. She also appeared in Garland's Annihilation (2018) and Men (2022), and on stage in A Child of Science at the Bristol Old Vic in 2024.
40years old
Turns 41 on July 1in 261 days
- Born Tokyo
- Star sign: CancerThe sign runs June 21 to July 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 12
- Career span
- 10 years2015 to 2025
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Early training
Mizuno trained at the Royal Ballet School and went on to dance with companies including Semperoper Ballet in Dresden, Ballet Ireland, New English Ballet Theatre and Scottish Ballet before turning to acting.
First role
Mizuno was still modeling and taking acting classes when she landed her first film role, appearing in 2014 in Alex Garland's science-fiction thriller Ex Machina.
Beyond film
Mizuno appeared in the Dom & Nic video for The Chemical Brothers' "Wide Open", which featured Beck. In it, she was a dancer who slowly became a 3-D lattice.
Sonoya Mizuno movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Worked with
Sonoya Mizuno shares two films with Oscar Isaac, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Oscar Isaac's page
Ronny Chieng's page
J.K. Simmons's page
Sean Bean's page
Jennifer Jason Leigh's page
Nick Offerman's page
All films by Alex Garland
Box office
What Sonoya Mizuno's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$968 million
8 of the 12 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 12 films: 8 worldwide figure; 4 figure not found.
- 8Worldwide figure
- 4Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$509M52.6% of the total
- 2$239M24.6% of the total
- 3$127M13.1% of the total
- 4$43M4.4% of the total
- 5$37M3.8% of the total
- 6$11M1.2% of the total
- 7$2.1M0.2% of the total
- 8$666K0.1% of the total
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