Sonoya Mizuno is a Japanese-born British actress, model and ballet dancer who has collaborated with director Alex Garland in works such as Ex Machina, Annihilation and Devs. She had minor roles in the films La La Land, Beauty and the Beast and Crazy Rich Asians. Mizuno also played a lead character in the Netflix miniseries Maniac.
Born in Tokyo, Mizuno was raised in Somerset, England. Her mother is of half British and half Argentine descent and her father is Japanese. She graduated from the Royal Ballet School before dancing with several ballet companies, including Semperoper Ballet in Dresden, Ballet Ireland, New English Ballet Theatre and Scottish Ballet.
Mizuno took up professional modelling at age 20 with Profile Models in London and has modelled for Chanel, Alexander McQueen, Saint Laurent and Louis Vuitton. During 2014, she appeared in Arthur Pita's work of dance theatre The World's Greatest Show at Greenwich Dance and the Royal Opera House.