A biography for Sonoya Mizunohasn’t been written yet.
“My mother's brother, my uncle, was an actor, quite well known in the West End. He used to come over to our house, and he and I would put on performances for my family. From that, this love of performing and acting grew.”
“Ballet is something for which you need so much control and composure. And there's an element to acting that is the complete opposite. You have to be able to completely let go and reveal everything about yourself. It's about being very vulnerable.”
“If I could throw a dinner party for anyone, I'd invite Lena Dunham, Dave Chappelle, and Gena Rowlands.”
“'Crazy Rich Asians' has been compared to 'Black Panther,' but I feel like that's a false equivalency. The idea that there's only this film for Asians and that film for African Americans - it's so binary. I don't think it's like that at all. There should be and will be many films and many stories. Hopefully this just opens the floodgates.”
“My vibe is a bit boyish: rock shirts, trousers.”
“I'm learning to let go of the idea of trying to be perfect.”
“I drink a glass of water and half a lemon as soon as I wake up. I heard that it's supposed to balance your body's pH. Not sure if that's true, but to be honest, it really helps with bloating.”
“I feel disheartened when I see stereotypes, because it's untrue and unfair. It just raises the level of inequality.”
“I grew up in Somerset in southwest England.”
“When I was, like, 10, I cooked a three-course meal for my family.”