She won the 2012 Portal Award for Best Supporting Actress - Television, and the Portal Award for Best Young Actor. Williams continued to garner praise for her performance in the show's second season, and HBO submitted her for consideration in the Outstanding Supporting Actress category for the 2012 Primetime Emmy Awards, although she did not receive a nomination. She has received critical acclaim for her performance in the series. Arya was Williams' first role in any professional capacity.

Since 2011, Williams has played Arya Stark, a tomboyish young girl from a noble family, in the HBO fantasy drama television series Game of Thrones. She attended Clutton Primary School and Norton Hill School in Midsomer Norton, before moving to Bath Dance College to study Performing Arts. Born to Hilary Pitt (now Frances), a former university course administrator, she grew up in Clutton, Somerset. Williams is the youngest of four children her three older siblings are James, Beth and Ted. She has always been known as 'Maisie' after the character from the comic strip The Perishers. In addition to television, she made her feature film debut in the mystery The Falling, for which she won the London Film Critics' Circle Award for Young Performer of the Year. Williams has also had a recurring role in Doctor Who as Ashildr in 2015. She made her professional acting debut as Arya Stark in the HBO fantasy television series Game of Thrones, for which she won the EWwy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama, the Portal Award for Best Supporting Actress - Television and Best Young Actor, and the Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor. Margaret Constance 'Maisie' Williams (born 15 April 1997) is an English actress.

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