Shooting Stars 2015. - 10 Most Talented Young European Actors
Each year, European Film Promotion (EFP), a network of promotion and marketing organisations from 35 European countries, presents the most talented young actors from throughout Europe to the press, public and industry during the Berlin International Film Festival. Actors with established national careers are suddenly on the international stage at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival. Among the actors recognized with the SHOOTING STARS AWARD over the years are such top-flight actors as Rachel Weisz, Franka Potente, Daniel Craig, Nina Hoss, Ludivine Sagnier, Daniel Brühl, Lucy Punch, Mélanie Laurent, Anamaria Marinca, Carey Mulligan, Sarah Bolger, Andrea Riseborough, Alicia Vikander and Bill Skarsgård.
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Margaret Constance "Maisie" Williams (born April 15, 1997) is an English actress. 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.
Williams has also had a recurring role in Doctor Who as Ashildr in 2015. 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 was born in Bristol, UK. She has always been known as "Maisie" after the character from the comic strip The Perishers. Williams is the youngest of four children; her three older siblings are James, Beth and Ted. Born to Hilary Pitt (now Frances), a former university course administrator, she grew up in Clutton, Somerset. She attended Clutton Primary School and Norton Hill School in Midsomer Norton, before moving to Bath Dance College to study Performing Arts.
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. Arya was Williams' first role in any professional capacity. She has received critical acclaim for her performance in the series. 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 won the 2012 Portal Award for Best Supporting Actress - Television, and the Portal Award for Best Young Actor. At 15 years of age, Williams was the youngest actress ever to win in the Best Supporting Actress category. 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. To date, she has appeared in all seven broadcast seasons.
In 2012, Williams played Loren Caleigh in the BBC series The Secret of Crickley Hall and appeared in a Funny or Die skit titled The Olympic Ticket Scalper. She also appeared in the independent films Heatstroke (2012) and Gold (2013), and the short films Corvidae (2013) and Up On The Roof (2013).
Williams also signed on to play Lorna Thompson in the Sci-Fi film We Are Monsters, which was set for a 2014 release.
In 2014, Williams portrayed Lydia in the British film The Falling, which premiered on October 11, 2014, and was released on April 24, 2015 in the UK. In December, Williams was in talks with Naughty Dog to star as Ellie in the film adaptation of the video game The Last of Us.
In January 2015, Williams appeared in one-off Channel 4 doc-drama Cyberbully, and in February she received European recognition with a Shooting Stars Award at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.
In February 2015, Williams played the leading role in the video-clip of Oceans by the British band Seafret. The theme of this clip is also bullying.
On March 30, 2015, the BBC announced that Williams would guest star in two episodes of Doctor Who ("The Girl Who Died" and "The Woman Who Lived"). Williams later returned to the series in the first and third episodes of the three-part series finale, entitled "Face the Raven" and "Hell Bent" respectively.UNITED KINGDOM- Actor
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Sven Schelker is known for Goliath (2017), The Circle (2014) and Paradise War: The Story of Bruno Manser (2019).SWITZERLAND- Actress
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Natalia de Molina was born on 19 December 1989 in Linares, Jaén, Andalucía, Spain. She is an actress, known for Food and Shelter (2015), Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed (2013) and Adiós (2019).SPAIN- Actress
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Emily Abigail Ashley Hoes was born on May 20th, 1994 in the city of Rotterdam. At the age of 10 she started taking singing, dancing and acting lessons at the Hofplein Children's theatre. After a couple of auditions for musical-theater she discovered that acting instead of singing was where her heart was and landed a role in a television commercial for Roosvicee soft drink. She made her screen debut in 2009 as Maite in the critically acclaimed "Maite Was Here". She went on to star in the films "Furious", "To Be King" and "Nina Satana" and had supporting roles in "Lover or Loser", "Tirza" and the award-winning "Finnemans". She was named one of the "Most promising young talents" of the 2012 Dutch Film Festival. In 2014 she won the Dutch Film Award (Gouden Kalf) for Best Actress in a Feature Film and in 2015 she was one of the Shooting Stars at the Berlinale, both for her starring role in "Nena". On television Abbey was featured in the popular youth series "Vrijland", "Spangas", "2012, The year zero" and had a recurring role in the series "Feuten", "The Black Tulip" and "Dr. Deen". She was the voice of "Violetta" in the Dutch version of the popular Disney series. In 2017 she won the Dutch Film Award (Gouden Kalf) for Best Actress in a TV series; "Petticoat" an 8-episode television series, in which she shows her ability of singing and dancing.THE NETHERLANDS- Actress
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Aiste Dirziute is known for Men in Black: International (2019), The Summer of Sangaile (2015) and Paradise (2023).LITHUANIA- Actor
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Jannis Niewöhner was born on 30 March 1992 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor, known for Munich: The Edge of War (2021), Ruby Red (2013) and Godless Youth (2017).GERMANY- Actor
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Moe Dunford was born on 11 December 1987 in County Waterford, Ireland. He is an actor and producer, known for Vikings (2013), Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) and Patrick's Day (2014).IRELAND- Actress
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Hera Hilmar is an Icelandic actress. She is mostly known, outside of Iceland, for her role as Vanessa in the television series Da Vinci's Demons (2013) (2013-2015), as Varya in Anna Karenina (2012), as Eik in the Icelandic film Life in a Fishbowl (2014), and as Lillie in The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017). She was nominated for an Edda in 2007 for her role in The Quiet Storm (2007). She won the Edda Award for Actress of the Year in 2015 for Vonarstræti (2014) and in 2017 for Eiðurinn (2016). She is a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Art. She is the daughter of actress Þórey Sigþórsdóttir and film director Hilmar Oddsson.ICELAND- Actress
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Emmi Parviainen is one of Finland's most promising and appreciated young actresses. Her first film was Aleksi Mäkelä's Esa and Vesa (1994). Since then she has had roles in TV series, several short films, and has had several successful leads in stage plays, including her roles in The Finnish National Theatre. She started her studies at the Theatre Academy Helsinki in 2008, and got her Master's degree in 2014. She is best known for her big breakthrough role in Jan Forsström's The Princess of Egypt (2013).FINLAND- Actor
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Joachim Fjelstrup was born in Herlev, Denmark. He graduated from The Danish National School of Performing Arts in 2013. Leading actor in Ole Christian Madsen's 1960's set romantic biopic "Steppeulven / Itsi Bitsi" about the great myth in Danish rock history Eik Skaløe. He has a great singing voice allowing him to sing and perform live.
Apart from numerous theatre plays in Copenhagen, Joachim has also worked on Aske Bang's graduation film "Den Fremmede / The Stranger" and will also play an important part in Josefine Kirkeskov Nielsen graduation film "Sol, Måne & Stjerner / Sun, Moon & Stars" from the same school, The National Film School of Denmark.DENMARK