Mia Goth
Birthdate: October 25, 1993 (32 Years Old)
Birthplace: Southwark, London, England, UK
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/20th 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.
Personal life
Mia Goth was born in London, England, and was raised in Brazil, Canada, and the United Kingdom primarily by her Brazilian-born mother, Rachel; Goth’s father was born in Nova Scotia, Canada, but Goth’s mother raised her as a single parent mainly in south London, working as a restaurant server. Goth, after attending Sydenham School, completed her sixth form (secondary education) studies just before starting her film acting career. Goth married Shia LaBeouf in 2016; although the couple filed for divorce in 2018, they reconciled and had a daughter, Isabel, in 2022. Goth’s height is 5’ 9¾ ”. Goth’s estimated net worth is $2 million.
Awards
Two-time Nominee, Best Actress/Best Film Writing, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Film Awards (2024); Nominee, Most Promising Newcomer, British Independent Film Awards (2015); Winner, Best Lead Performance, Fangoria Chainsaw Awards (2023); Winner, Robert Altman Award, Independent Spirit Awards (2019); Nominee, Most Frightened Performance, MTV Movie + TV Awards (2022); Winner, Best Actress, Sitges Catalonian Film Festival (2022).
Mia Goth Movies
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- 2025 |
Frankenstein
asElizabeth
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
- 2024 |
- 2023 |
Infinity Pool
asGabi Bauer
James and Em Foster are enjoying an all-inclusive beach vacation in the fictional island of La Tolqa, when a fatal accident exposes the resort's perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence and surreal horrors.
- 2022 |
- 2022 |
- 2021 |
- 2020 |
- 2019 |
- 2018 |
Marrowbone
asJane
A young man and his three younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.
- 2018 |
- 2017 |
- 2017 |
A Cure for Wellness
asHannah
An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps, but soon suspects that the spa's treatments are not what they seem.
- -- | Blade
- -- | as Melantho
Producer
Facts About Mia Goth
Discovered: Mia Goth was discovered by fashion photographer Gemma Booth during the Underage Festival at age 14, leading to her signing with a modeling agent.
Wedding?: Goth was wed to Shia LaBeouf in Las Vegas by an Elvis impersonator, which a city official later termed a “commitment ceremony” rather than a marriage ceremony, though LaBoeuf confirmed their marriage a month later on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Sued: Mia Goth was reported by The Guardian in January 2024 to have been sued by actor James Hunter, who alleged that Goth “bullied” him and “intentionally kicked” him “in the head” on the set of MaXXXine while he was playing a corpse.
