Mia Goth

About

Mia Gypsy Mello da Silva Goth (born 25 October 1993) is a British actress and model. After modelling as a teenager, Goth made her acting debut in the erotic drama Nymphomaniac (2013). She earned recognition with the films A Cure for Wellness (2016), High Life (2018), Suspiria (2018), and Emma (2020). She achieved a career breakthrough by playing Maxine Minx and Pearl in the X film series (2022–2024) which established her as a scream queen. She has since starred in Infinity Pool (2023) and Frankenstein (2025).

Mia Gypsy Mello da Silva Goth was born on 25 October 1993 in Guy’s Hospital in London. Her mother is Brazilian and her father is Canadian, originally from Nova Scotia. Her maternal grandfather is American artist Lee Jaffe, and her maternal grandmother is Brazilian actress Maria Gladys. Goth moved to Brazil when she was two weeks old, because her mother, who was 20 at the time, needed help from her family to raise her. They returned to the United Kingdom when she was five and briefly relocated to her father’s native Canada when she was 10. Goth said that the period when they tried living with her father was very difficult.
In Canada, Goth attended…