The New Look to Game of Thrones: The Best Maisie Williams Performances Ranked

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Since her acting debut in Game of Thrones, Maisie Williams has been at the helm of a variety of different British films and TV series. Discover our official ranking of the best Maisie Williams performances and where to stream them below.

Back in 2011, the Bristol-born actress joined the cast of HBO’s medieval fantasy series, Game of Thrones as Arya Stark. For her role in the highly-acclaimed adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s novels, Williams was nominated for numerous awards including a Primetime Emmy for Best Supporting Actress. Over the course of eight seasons, the show was nominated for the most Primetime Emmy Awards on record (for a drama series), with 59 nominations in total.

After her early success, Williams went on to receive widespread praise for her feature film debut in the coming of age drama, The Falling. For her performance, Williams won the Shooting Stars Award at the Berlin Film Festival, before securing the Evening Standard’s Rising Star Award too.

In the years that followed, the actress appeared in several episodes of the British cult classic, Doctor Who as Ashildr, fronted a docudrama titled Cyberbully and starred in a Netflix thriller, iBoy. Williams continued to demonstrate her extensive range in a host of different genres such as the period drama, Mary Shelley, a romantic comedy, Then Came You, before landing in a lead role in the dark thriller, The Owners.

Williams has also dipped her toe into animation, lending her voice to the web series, Gen: Lock and taking a lead role in Aardman’s Early Man, alongside Eddie Redmayne and Tom Hiddleston.

More recently, Williams starred as the punk rock icon Jordan in the six-part biopic about the Sex Pistols rise to fame, Pistol, and debuted in the X-Men universe as Rahne Sinclair / Wolfsbane in the superhero horror movie, The New Mutants.

The actress is also revisiting a groundbreaking era in fashion history in Apple TV+’s The New Look that follows the origins of the major fashion houses in Paris (namely Christian Dior and Coco Chanel) after World War II. Williams stars as the revolutionary Catherine Dior, daughter of Christian Dior (Ben Mendelsohn), as the series unravels the rivalry between the two famous families, beneath the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of France in the 1940s.

With an eclectic filmography to discover, here are the best Maisie Williams performances ranked and where to watch them.

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  1. Game of Thrones

    Game of Thrones

    2011

    IMDB 9.2 (2m)

    #1

    Nine noble families fight for control over the lands of Westeros, while an ancient enemy returns after being dormant for millennia.

  2. Doctor Who

    Doctor Who

    2005

    IMDB 8.6 (246k)

    #2

    The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.

  3. The Falling

    The Falling

    2015

    IMDB 5.3 (7k)

    #3

    England, 1969. The fascinating Abbie and the troubled Lydia are great friends. After an unexpected tragedy occurs in the strict girls' school they attend, a mysterious epidemic of fainting breaks out that threatens the mental sanity and beliefs of the tormented people involved, both teachers and students.

  4. The New Look

    The New Look

    2024

    IMDB 7.4 (5k)

    #4

    Explores the rise of fashion designer Christian Dior, as he dethrones Coco Chanel and helps return spirit and life to the world with his iconic imprint of beauty and influence.

  5. The New Mutants

    The New Mutants

    2020

    IMDB 5.3 (72k)

    #5

    Five young mutants, just discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save themselves.

  6. Pistol

    Pistol

    2022

    IMDB 7.6 (8k)

    #6

    The story of a band of spotty, noisy, working-class kids with “no future,” who shook the boring, corrupt Establishment to its core, threatened to bring down the government and changed music and culture forever.

  7. Two Weeks to Live

    Two Weeks to Live

    2020

    IMDB 6.7 (4k)

    #7

    A woman sets out on a secret mission to honour her father, who died under mysterious circumstances when she was a young girl.

  8. The Owners

    #8

    A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score - an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there comes home early, the tables are suddenly turned. As a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, the would-be thieves must fight to save themselves from a nightmare they could never have imagined.

  9. Then Came You

    Then Came You

    2018

    IMDB 6.9 (13k)

    #9

    An American hypochondriac who is working as a baggage handler is forced to confront his fears when a British teenager with a terminal illness enlists him to help her carry out her eccentric bucket list.

  10. Cyberbully

    Cyberbully

    2015

    IMDB 6.8 (7k)

    #10

    A chilling real-time thriller featuring a teenager, Casey, battling with an anonymous cyber-stalker.

  11. iBoy

    iBoy

    2017

    IMDB 6.0 (22k)

    #11

    After an accident, Tom wakes from a coma to discover that fragments of his smart phone have been embedded in his head, and worse, that returning to normal teenage life is impossible because he has developed a strange set of super powers.

  12. Early Man

    Early Man

    2018

    IMDB 6.1 (23k)

    #12

    Dug, along with his sidekick Hognob, unite a cavemen tribe to save their hidden valley from being spoiled and, all together as a team, to face the menace of a mysterious and mighty enemy, on the turf of an ancient and sacred sport.

  13. Mary Shelley

    Mary Shelley

    2017

    IMDB 6.4 (17k)

    #13

    The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”