To date, she has appeared in all seven broadcast seasons. In March 2013, she was nominated for a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Series - Supporting Young Actress and, in November 2013, won the BBC Radio 1 Teen Award for Best British Actor. At 15 years of age, Williams was the youngest actress ever to win in the Best Supporting Actress category. She won the 2012 Portal Award for Best Supporting Actress - Television, and the Portal Award for Best Young Actor. Williams continued to garner praise for her performance in the show's second season, and HBO submitted her for consideration in the Outstanding Supporting Actress category for the 2012 Primetime Emmy Awards, although she did not receive a nomination. She has received critical acclaim for her performance in the series. Arya was Williams' first role in any professional capacity. Since 2011, Williams has played Arya Stark, a tomboyish young girl from a noble family, in the HBO fantasy drama television series Game of Thrones. She attended Clutton Primary School and Norton Hill School in Midsomer Norton, before moving to Bath Dance College to study Performing Arts. Born to Hilary Pitt (now Frances), a former university course administrator, she grew up in Clutton, Somerset. Williams is the youngest of four children her three older siblings are James, Beth and Ted. She has always been known as "Maisie" after the character from the comic strip The Perishers. In addition to television, she made her feature film debut in the mystery The Falling, for which she won the London Film Critics' Circle Award for Young Performer of the Year. Williams has also had a recurring role in Doctor Who as Ashildr in 2015. 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. I can't find any interviews which suggest she deliberately change her pronunciation, so I'm going to say it's simply an incidental thing.Margaret Constance "Maisie" Williams (born 15 April 1997) is an English actress. Perhaps George RR Martin had other things to concern himself with and didn't care. Perhaps she didn't know the real pronunciation to begin with. She's a young woman who has filmed all across the world, probably picking up various bits of regional dialect along the way. However, with the loss of her family and with her becoming more and more wild, she fell back on her preferred, less sweet-sounding pronunciation and has stuck with it ever since!Īs for an out of universe explanation. Much like Sansa is a very flowery name, perhaps Arya was encouraged to over pronounce her name to give it a more feminine, dainty feel. When we first meet Arya, she's the tomboy of Winterfell - but is still in Winterfell and being brought up as a lady. What I'm interested in is the last section - to be a contrast to the flowery Sansa. They refer to this video as their citation. Sound, to be a contrast to the flowery 'Sansa'." Wanted something that was like a knife, that was a sharp and hard 'are-ee-uh', not like an operatic thing, but 'Are-ya', very sharp. MartinĮxplained: "I say it 'Are-ya', two syllables not three. Three (like how the "aria" of an opera is pronounced). People pronounce it incorrectly: it consists of two syllables, not Martin himself has pointed out that a surprisingly large number of I'll attempt a complete guess at an in universe explanation.
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