Maisie Williams
Maisie Williams is a Bristol-born English actress best known for playing Arya Stark in HBO’s Game of Thrones, for which she received two Emmy nominations. She has also appeared in the BBC’s Doctor Who, and played the main character in HBO’s comedy action miniseries Two Weeks to Live. In 2014, Williams took on her first role in a feature film – The Falling – for which she received several awards, and in 2020 she co-starred in X-Men spin-off, The New Mutants.
When she isn’t acting or designing vegan apple-leather handbags, Williams is advocating for wildlife and the environment. Williams is the first Global Ambassador for Climate and Nature for WWF and has worked with the Dolphin Project to ban the use of dolphins in captivity and “stood on-the-ground with [the Dolphin Project] team in Taiji, Japan, fighting the atrocities committed against dolphins there.”
When Williams appeared on Hot Ones, where celebrity guests are interviewed while eating progressively hot chilli sauces, she swapped the usual chicken wings and cow’s milk for cauliflower wings and oat milk.
“When I learned about climate change for the first time at school, I thought that it was common knowledge and everyone was working together to try and stop it. Later in life, I’ve realised that there are many people, some in really powerful places, who still seem to refuse the science. It’s got a lot worse since I first heard about it and all of these horror stories that my teachers were telling me back then are now becoming a reality. I have a little niece and nephew and I think I want children of my own in the future, but it scares me that the world they will live in could be unsafe. I don’t want to be denied the right to have a child because the world is burning.” – Maisie Williams
