Kaya Rose Humphrey, celebrated as Kaya Scodelario, is an English actress by profession. She was born on 13th March, 1992 at Haywards Heath, West Sussex, England. She was born to Roger Humphrey and Katia Scodelario. Her mother is Brazilian, who also has an Italian background as her father was an Italian, and her father is English so she has a mixed ethnicity. Her surname comes from her grandfather. However, she holds a British nationality.
Kaya had a very disturbing childhood where she was bullied by her own friends and schoolmates. This may be one of the main causes of her suffering from dyslexia. However, she never let her weakness come in her way of success. She was always very fond of acting and thus, made her goal to pursue acting and get success in her chosen career.
At the age of 14, Kaya was casted in the first series of ‘Skins’ in 2007. With no prior acting experience, her first big break as Effy Stonem led her to a huge fame. In 2009, she made debut in film industry with science fiction-thriller film ‘Moon’. Some of the other perceptible works of her are Clash of Titans, Now is good, The Maze Runner and many more. She will also be seen in the upcoming production of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales’ as the main lead. She has been in the nominees of various awards shows and has won the title of ‘Best Acting Ensemble’ for ‘The truth about Emanuel’ at Ashland Independent Film Award.
Moving on to her personal life, Kaya is a happily married woman. Benjamin Walker, her spouse, and she met at the sets of ‘The moon and the Sun’ where they worked as co-actors. During the shoot, their love bloomed up and the couple announced their engagement in 2014. A year later, in 2015, they finally tied the wedding knot.
Before her marriage, she had couple of other love affairs too. Scodelario started to date Jack O’Connell, who was her Skins co-star, when she was just 16. Later, in 2009, the duo announced their official break up but they still are good friends. She was also in relationship with Elliott Tittensor, in 2009, but they too split up in 2014. However, she is now living a happy life with her husband and love of her life.
Apart from acting, she can be seen involved in various charity works and events.
Kaya Scodelario has an estimated net worth of $5 million and enjoys a very good salary. Standing 5 ft. 6 in. tall with the weight of 55 kg., the beautiful actress has been voted in the 13th position of FHM’s 100 World’s Sexiest Women 2010 in the UK edition.
To know more about Kaya Scodelario, she can be followed on different social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Wikipedia. Besides, there are different sites which provide a brief bio on her.
