Mia Goth

A lineage of film and avant-garde

Mia Goth was born in London in 1993, but her passport tells a story of back-and-forth travel between Brazil and Canada. Her grandmother is Brazilian actress Maria Gladys, and her grandfather is American artist Lee Jaffe. That family environment explains why drama runs in her veins, ever since Storm Management signed her at fourteen at a music festival.

In 2013, Lars von Trier gave her first real break in Nymphomaniac: Vol. II. It was a trial by fire, surrounded by names like Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe. But what could have been an anecdotal debut became the start of a career tied to the unsettling.

Industry insiders quickly labeled her as an unusual face.

In 2015, she starred in The Survivalist, and it became clear that genre cinema was her natural habitat. She wasn't looking for conventional girl-next-door roles, because her look practically demanded dark, twisted stories. That decision to step away from the most obvious commercial circuit is what began to build her reputation at European film festivals.

Building an Unsettling Face

In 2018, Luca Guadagnino cast her in the remake of Suspiria. She played Sara and shared the set with Tilda Swinton in a production that divided international critics over its aesthetic violence. That same year she appeared in High Life under the direction of Claire Denis, confirming that cult directors trusted her ability to unsettle audiences.

And the risk was worth it.

In 2022, she signed a double deal with director Ti West to shoot X and Pearl back to back. In the first, she played two different characters through six hours of daily prosthetic makeup. For the second, she co-wrote the screenplay with the director to explore the madness of a would-be star in 1918.

Wrote the Pearl screenplay in just two weeks during mandatory quarantine in New Zealand, before production began on the first installment. That creative involvement moved her out of the drawer of actresses who simply wait for instructions and into the ranks of creators of their own monsters.

The trilogy wrapped up in 2024 with the release of MaXXXine, set in a decadent 1980s Hollywood. Goth not only lent her face to the project but also served as executive producer to ensure the ending kept the original's raw edge. For her, horror isn't a formality but a tool for dissecting society.

Total Control of Production

Guillermo del Toro selected her in 2024 to join his version of Frankenstein. Filming took place on locations in the United Kingdom and Eastern Europe alongside Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi. The project marked her entry into a large-scale production financed by a global streaming platform.

Earned one million dollars for her role in the final installment of Ti West's saga, according to film industry financial sources.

In 2025, her schedule included auteur projects that moved away from visceral horror to explore pure psychological drama. Still, her professional identity will always be tied to that eyebrowless gaze that makes the camera uneasy.

And the gamble paid off.

The actress lives primarily in Los Angeles with her son, born in 2022. Her contract to promote luxury brands in 2024 was limited to occasional appearances at Paris runway shows. Filming of Frankenstein officially wrapped in the final quarter of that same year after several months of intensive production in Scotland.