The actor on her favourite singer, a woodland walk in the heart of London and why she can’t get enough of Gladiators

Born in West Sussex in 1992 and raised in London, Brazilian-British actor Kaya Scodelario rose to prominence playing Effy Stonem in E4’s Skins. In 2011, she played Cathy in Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights; her other film roles include the Maze Runner series, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and This Is Christmas. Last year, she starred in two Netflix series, Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen and the dual-language biographical miniseries Senna. Scodelario makes her stage debut in East Is South, a play about artificial intelligence at the Hampstead theatre from 7 February to 15 March. She lives in north London with her two children.