Mia Goth

Mia Goth (birthname: Mia Gypsy Mello de Silva Goth) is an actor whose seemingly innocent-looking features belie a ferocity in many of the roles she’s tackled since her movie debut in “The Gun” segment in Lars von Trier’s two-part erotic epic, Nymphomaniac (2013), with the eclectic cast of Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater, Jamie Bell, Uma Thurman, Willem Dafoe, Jean-Marc Barr, and Udo Kier, and which premiered (part one) in the Berlin film festival.

Mia Goth had her first lead role in filmmaker Stephen Fingleton’s The Survivalist (2015), released by IFC Midnight—which was a feature version of his short, Magpie (2014), in which Goth played the same role—and then Goth joined her first Hollywood production under the direction of Baltasar Kormakur, Everest (2015), written by William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy and co-starring Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Emily Watson, Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, and Jake Gyllenhaal, and which opened the Venice film festival before a $203-million-grossing released by Universal Pictures.

Goth co-starred in director/story writer/producer Gore Verbinski’s psychological horror film for Regency Enterprises/20^th Century Fox, A Cure for Wellness (2017), co-starring Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, and Harry Groener, but grossed a weak $26.6 million. Goth continued in the horror mode in her co-starring role in director-writer Sergio G. Sanchez’ Spanish-backed production launched at the Toronto film festival, Marrowbone (2017), with George MacKay, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Charlie Heaton, after which Goth played a major feature role in Luca Guadagnino’s unsuccessful remake of Dario Argento’s giallo classic, Suspiria (2018), starring Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Angela Winkler, Ingrid Caven, Sylvie Testud, and Chloë Grace Moretz, and released to poor box office by Amazon Studios after premiering at the Venice film festival.

Mia Goth joined renowned French filmmaker Claire Denis for her English-language death-row-in-space drama, High Life (2018), starring Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Andre Benjamin, and Lars Eidinger, released in the U.S. by A24 after premiering at the Toronto film festival. Goth played in her first-period movie opposite Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Josh O’Connor, Callum Turner, and Bill Nighy in screenwriter Eleanor Catton’s clever screen adaptation of Jane Austin’s Emma. (2020), directed by Autumn de Wilde and released by Focus Features/Universal Pictures to $27.4 million box office.

Goth co-starred with Grace Van Patten in director-writer-producer Karen Cinorre’s action-stuffed Mayday (2021), with Juliette Lewis, premiering at the Sundance Film Festival before bombing at the box office via distributor Magnolia Pictures. Goth did her first voice performance in an animated feature with the U.K.-made Netflix Animation stop-motion anthology movie, The House (2022), with the voices of Matthew Goode, Miranda Richardson, and Helena Bonham Carter.

Mia Goth had her breakthrough role as the psycho-killer Maxine in Ti West’s extraordinary Gothic horror movies, X (2022) and (also as co-writer) Maxine’s origin tale, Pearl (2022), which were separate but connected chapters of the bloody Maxine saga, taking in a combined gross of $25 million on $2 million costs for A24 after premiering at the Venice film festival. Goth played another lethal character in a co-starring role in writer-director Brandon Cronenberg’s twisted drama, Infinity Pool (2023), with Alexander Skarsgård, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival before a Neon release.

Goth returned to her most colorful role as Maxine and as a producer with filmmaker Ti West for the third movie in the X series, MaXXXine (2024), set in Los Angeles during the Night Stalker serial killing spree, and co-starring Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Lily Collins, Giancarlo Esposito, and Kevin Bacon, and released wide by A24. Goth took on the guise of The Bride of Frankenstein in director-writer-producer Guillermo del Toro’s version of Frankenstein (date to be announced), starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Christoph Waltz, Felix Kammerer, and Charles Dance, and which was released by Netflix.