Kaya Scodelario

Early Life Kaya Scodelario is a British actress famous with her role as Effy Stonem in a teenage drama “Skins”. She was born in London on 13 March, 1992 from a Brazilian mother and an English father. When she was very young, the parents split up and she was taken care of by her mother. Most of Kaya’s family live in Itu, a city in  Sao Paulo State Brazil where she sometimes goes visiting. Kaya managed to teach herself Portuguese and now she can speak the language fluently. Young Kaya had been suffering from dyslexia which actually became her drift to learn about acting.

Role in Skins Never learning about acting before, Kaya tried to attend an audition of Skins drama, but in the beginning she didn’t feel confident. She was about to leave the audition, but the producer gave her a chance to read a part, and then finally she won the role, but had very limited part of speaking act in the early role as Effy Stonem. Her debut started in January 2007.

Playing a role as Effy Stonem

As Effy, Kaya played as supporting role in the first series and only appeared few times, but the character developed to become more challenging in the next series. Effy Stonem was described as a teenager who had many disasters in life but somehow resolved to manage her life. Her role was the center of characters in season three. Kaya announced that she will leave the series and had her last day filming on 18 November, 2009 making the series prepared another generation to play the characters. Her appearance in Skins made her received a nomination for Best Actress in TV Quick Awards in 2009.

Other Work and Modeling After Skins, Kaya also appeared in other movies and had made her first performance in Moon, first premiered at The Sundance Film Festival in 2009. Shank (2010) became her second movie and followed by Clash of the Titans in the same year. There are four movies of her that are going to be released, Wuthering Heights and Invisible, which already in Post-Production and will be released in 2011, Twenty8K and Stay with Me which will be ready in 2012.

Kaya is also recognized as a model and had appeared in various magazine including Teen Vouge, Nylon, Instyle UK, Elle UK, Dazed & Confused, Vouge and i-D. Kaya joined with model agency Model 1. She was also a video model for Don Broco and appeared in Dreamboy.

Personal Life Kaya started a relationship with Jack O’Connel and they’ve been dating for a year before finally broke up in June, 2009 and still became good friends. Kaya lives by herself in an apartment in North London. She is now dating Elliot Tittensor since end of 2009 and had supported him during the court.

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