Sophie Turner Biography

Sophie Turner (born 21 February 1996) is an English actress. Turner made her professional acting debut as Sansa Stark on the HBO fantasy television series Game of Thrones (2011-present), which brought her international recognition and critical praise. For her performance, she has received four nominations for Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, as well as a Young Artist Award nomination for Best Supporting Young Actress in a TV Series and a nomination for the EWwy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama.

Turner has also starred in the television film The Thirteenth Tale (2013) and she made her feature film debut in Another Me (2013). She has also starred in the action comedy Barely Lethal and in 2014, was cast as Mary Shelley in the upcoming biopic Mary Shelley's Monster. In 2016, Turner is to play a young Jean Grey in X-Men: Apocalypse.

Early life

Turner was born in Northampton, Northamptonshire. She moved to Chesterton, Warwickshire when she was two years old. She attended Warwick Prep School until she was 11, and later attended The King's High School for Girls. Turner has been a member of the theatre company Playbox Theatre Company since she was three years old. Turner has two older brothers, and stated in an interview with The Telegraph that "My childhood was pretty fun. We had pigsties, barns and a paddock, and used to muck around in the mud." Turner had a tutor on the set of Game of Thrones until the age of 16, sending homework back to her teachers at school. She achieved five A and four B grades at GCSE, including a B grade in drama.

Career

Since 2011, Turner has portrayed Sansa Stark, a young noblewoman, in the HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones. Sansa is her first television role. Turner's drama teacher encouraged her to audition for the part, and she dyed her blonde hair auburn for the role. She had her first big screen role in the 2013 film Another Me. In 2012, she was nominated for the Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Series - Supporting Young Actress for her performance as Sansa. To date, Turner has appeared in all five broadcast seasons. In 2013, Turner played the lead role in the independent thriller film Another Me, based on the novel of the same name by Catherine MacPhail. She also starred as Adeline March in the 2013 television film The Thirteenth Tale.

In 2013, she was cast in the comedy film Barely Lethal, alongside American actress Hailee Steinfeld, which was released on 29 May 2015 in a limited release and through video on demand. Turner also narrated the audiobook version of the Lev Grossman short story The Girl in the Mirror, which was included in the short fiction anthology Dangerous Women, and was edited by George R.R. Martin. On 12 August 2014, Deadline reported that Turner had been cast in the upcoming biopic Mary Shelley's Monster, portraying the title character Mary Shelley. On 22 January 2015, Turner was cast as Jean Grey in X-Men: Apocalypse, due out on 27 May 2016. Turner learned archery in preparation for the role.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2013	Another Me	Fay Delussey
2015	Barely Lethal	Heather	Direct-to-VOD
2016	Alone	Penelope	Post-production
2016	X-Men: Apocalypse	Jean Grey	Post-production
2016	Mary Shelley's Monster	Mary Shelley

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2011-present	Game of Thrones	Sansa Stark	TV series (main role)
2013	The Thirteenth Tale	Young Adeline March	Television film

Music Videos

Year	Artist	Song
2014	Bastille	"Oblivion"

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Work	Notes
2011	Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series	Game of Thrones
	Scream Award for Best Ensemble
2012	Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Series - Supporting Young Actress
2013	Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
2014
2015	Empire Hero Award
	EWwy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Drama
	Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series