Ruby Ann Barnhill
(born 16 July 2004) is a British actress. She played the lead role of Sophie in
Steven Spielberg's Disney live-action film of 2016, ''
The BFG
''The BFG'' (short for ''The Big Friendly Giant'') is a 1982 children's book written by British novelist Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake. It is an expansion of a short story from Dahl's 1975 book '' Danny, the Champion of the World ...
''.
"How schoolgirl landed a giant role in Hollywood's ''BFG''"
telegraph.co.uk; accessed 25 November 2016. She subsequently provided the voice of Mary Smith in the English dub of the 2017 film by Studio Ponoc
is a Japanese animation studio based in Musashino, Tokyo, Japan. The company was founded in April 2015 by Yoshiaki Nishimura, former lead film producer of Studio Ghibli. Its first feature film, ''Mary and The Witch's Flower'', was released on Ju ...
entitled ''Mary and the Witch's Flower
is a 2017 Japanese animated fantasy film co-written and directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, produced by Studio Ponoc founder Yoshiaki Nishimura, animated by Studio Ponoc, and distributed by Toho in Japan. Based on the 1971 book ''The Little Bro ...
''.
Early life
Barnhill was born on 16 July 2004 in Knutsford
Knutsford () is a market town in the borough of Cheshire East, in Cheshire, England. Knutsford is south-west of Manchester, north-west of Macclesfield and 12.5 miles (20 km) south-east of Warrington. The population at the 2011 Census was ...
, Cheshire, England. She lives with her parents and younger sister in Cheshire, and she is a member of the local youth theatre.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
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Ruby Barnhill biography and filmography
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2004 births
Living people
21st-century English actresses
Actresses from Cheshire
English child actresses
English film actresses
English television actresses
People from Knutsford