Few actresses can boast of having debuted with one of the most provocative and controversial filmmakers of our time. Mia Goth's first movie was the controversial Nymphomaniac, in which she played a 15-year-old girl who gets involved in a destructive relationship with the protagonist, Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg).
It would take a few years for Mia Goth's career to really take off. However, with Luca Guadagnino's horror genre, which has been one of the most fruitful for her career. Here she plays Sara Simms, one of the students at a prestigious dance school that hides a sinister secret.
With legendary French filmmaker Claire Denis, Mia Goth made High Life, a science fiction movie alongside Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche. Here we see a rather bleak panorama, with a group of death-row criminals who accept an alternative: travel on an experimental space expedition to a black hole. Onboard, however, desolation, sexual repression, and the machinations of a scientist lead to perverse acts.
For the most avid followers of the actress due to her prolific horror career, seeing her in a period drama – adapted from Jane Austen, no less – might sound far-fetched. However, alongside Anya Taylor-Joy as the titular protagonist, Mia Goth shines in the role of Harriet, rounding out a cast of young British promises alongside Josh O'Connor (One Life).
Adding Brandon Cronenberg's name to her list of credits undoubtedly helped cement Mia Goth as a scream queen after her venture into Ti West's X Trilogy (more on that shortly). However, in Infinity Pool her role requires less screaming and more laughing like a genuinely disturbed maniac, in a horror and sci-fi story where money, corruption, and the full moral decay of the rich degrade human life to its lowest levels.