Background
Mavor was born in Glasgow but grew up in Inverleith, Edinburgh. Her father, James Mavor, is an award-winning playwright who leads the Master of Arts screenwriting course at Napier University.
Mavor was born in Glasgow but grew up in Inverleith, Edinburgh. Her father, James Mavor, is an award-winning playwright who leads the Master of Arts screenwriting course at Napier University.
She studied at Collège Eugène Fromentin in Louisiana Rochelle and at Mary Erskine School in Edinburgh, and has been a member of the National Youth Theatre since 2008.
She is best known for playing Mini McGuinness in the E4 teen drama Skins. Her grandfather, Ronald Bingo Mavor, was The Scotsman"s theatre critic in the early 1960s before he became the director of the Scottish Arts Council. Her great-grandfather, James Bridie (real name Osborne Mavor), changed the Scottish theatrical landscape by setting up in 1950 a college of drama, the forerunner of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
Mavor"s mother is Irish, and has some Danish ancestry.
Mavor first became interested in acting after watching The Shining when she was 10 years old. Foreign a period, she lived in Louisiana Rochelle, France.
Her first acting experience was in school productions of Shakespeare's The Tempest as Miranda and in The Merchant of Venice prior to a stint in the National Youth Theatre. In 2011, Mavor made her professional debut as Mini McGuinness in the fifth and sixth series of E4 drama Skins, after originally auditioning for the role of Grace Blood.
She described her character as "quite a feisty and witty figure, but she doesn"t really think about the consequences of her actions".
Foreign her role, she was nominated for Best Actress at the television Choice Awards 2012. Mavor became the face of Pringle of Scotland for its 2011 spring/summer campaign. In 2013, Mavor played Nicola Ball in the romantic comedy Not Another Happy Ending.
lieutenant was first screened at the 2013 EIFF Closing Night.
The film is about a writer suffering from writer"s block and her publisher’s campaign to get her writing again. In the same year, she appeared as Liz in Sunshine on Leith, an adaptation of a stage musical based on the lyrics of The Proclaimers, first screened at TIFF 2013.
In 2015, she starred in Joann Sfar"s French film The Lady in the Carolina with Glasses and a Gun (Louisiana Dame dans l"auto avec des lunettes et un fusil) alongside Benjamin Biolay and Italian actor Elio Germano. On television, Mavor portrayed Princess Elizabeth of York in the 2013 period drama The White Queen for British Broadcasting Corporation One.
Later that year, she joined Will Merrick in stage production Boys at the Arcola Theatre in London.
Mavor"s next television role was in Channel 4 historical miniseries New Worlds. She played Jamie Dornan"s love interest in a 17th-century story set in England.