Kaya Scodelario

  Kaya Rose Scodelario-Davis (nee Humphrey; born 13 March 1992) is an English actress best known for her roles as Effy Stonem on the E4 teen drama Skins (2007-2010, 2013), and Teresa in the Maze Runner film series (2014-2018). Other roles include Catherine Earnshaw in Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights (2011), Carina Smyth in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017), Carole Ann Boone in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019), Haley Keller in Crawl (2019), Katarina Baker in the Netflix original series Spinning Out (2020) and Claire Redfield in Resident Evil Welcome to Raccoon City. Scodelario was born Kaya Rose Humphrey in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, England. Her mother, Katia Scodelario, is a Brazilian accountant from Itu, Sao Paulo, who moved to England in 1990; Scodelario's surname comes from her mother's Italian grandfather. Her father, Roger Humphrey, was English and died in November 2010.Scodelario's parents divorced when she was one, and her mother brought her to London when she was four. They spent their first night on the street before finding a council flat on Holloway Road. Scodelario adopted her mother's surname and spoke Portuguese at home. She attended Bishop Douglass Catholic School and then Islington Arts and Media School. She participated in school plays and found drama an escape from bullying.Her mother took on multiple jobs to make ends meet and had clinical depression that worsened during Scodelario's teen years from the strain. Scodelario said she wanted to help, but did not know how at the time and moved out to a flat in Camden.