Kaya Scodelario

About Kaya Scodelario

Kaya Rose Scodelario-Davis is an English actress, who was born on March 13, 1992 in Hayward Heath, West Sussex, England.
She is best known for her roles in Skins (2007–2010, 2013) and the film Arrangement (2014–2018), from The Maze Runner.

Her mother, Katia Scodelario, is a Brazilian who moved to England in 1990; Scodelario's surname comes from her mother's Italian grandfather.
Her father, Roger Humphrey (who died 22 November 2010), was British.
As a young woman, her parents separated and her mother raised her in London, thus acquiring her surname and becoming familiar with Portuguese.

Kaya Scodelario was 14 years old and had no acting experience.
During the audition, she was disappointed that she thought she was too young, but a producer asked her to stay and she was asked to read the part.
While Scodelario had a minor role in the first series, her character developed significantly during 2008.
She ended up becoming a central character in the 2009 and 2010 series, when the cast was replaced by a new generation of characters.

She played Ted Bundy's wife, Carol Ann Boone, in 2019.
She acted in Alexandre Ajani's horror film Crawl, which was filmed in Belgrade and released in July 2019 to positive reviews.

Scodelario and Benjamin Walker began dating during the filming of The King's Daughter in early 2014, getting engaged in December 2014 and marrying in December 2015

In February 2024, the couple announced that they had separated.