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SOPHIE TURNER is best known for her
high-pro;ile role as Sansa Stark in the HBO series Game of Thrones and in the 2016 blockbuster X-Men: Apocalypse.
Sophie was born in Northampton, England, along
with her two brothers, to a nursery school teacher mother and a pallet distribution worker father. She and her family moved to Chesterton, Warwickshire when she was just two years old. There she became a member of the Playbox Theatre Company and attended Warwick Prep School until she was eleven.
In 2011, at age 14, while
attending The King's High
School for Girls, Sophie got her
very ;irst television role in one
of the most hotly anticipated TV
series of that year, Game of
Thrones. She was cast as the eldest Stark daughter, Sansa. Her hectic shooting schedule also had her quit school and turn to homeschooling. Two years after
her big break, Sophie landed her ;irst feature ;ilm role in the Spanish-British horror ;ilm Another Me. She also starred in
the television ;ilm The Thirteenth Tale that same year. Her next feature came in 2015, in the comedy ;ilm Barely Lethal.
Sophie's acting credits began to increase greatly in 2016, when she was cast as young Jean Grey in the superhero sequel X-Men: Apocalypse(2016). She had the role in Dark Phoenix (2019). She also starred in the romantic comedy Time Freak (2018) and the thriller Josie (2018).
Now that Game of Thrones has come to an end, Sophie will focus on her ;ilm career.
Sophie married Joe Jonas on May 1, 2019 after three years of dating.
  

















































































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