Turner was born in
Northampton
,
[3]
England
on 21 February 1996, the daughter of Sally, a nursery school teacher, and Andrew, who works for a pallet distribution company.
[4]
She moved to
Chesterton
,
Warwickshire
when she was 2 years old. She attended Warwick Prep School until she was 11, and later attended the independent
The King's High School for Girls
. Turner has been a member of the
Playbox Theatre Company
since she was 3 years old.
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[6]
She has two older brothers.
[7]
Her twin died in utero.
[8]
She grew up in a large Edwardian house, near
Leamington Spa
, saying, "My childhood was pretty fun. We had pigsties, barns and a paddock, and used to muck around in the mud." Turner had a
tutor
on the set of
Game of Thrones
until age 16. She achieved five
GCSE
A-grades and four Bs, including a B in Drama.
[7]
Turner was cast as
Sansa Stark
, a young noblewoman, in the
HBO
fantasy drama series
Game of Thrones
in August 2009.
[9]
Filming began in July 2010, when Turner was 14 years old.
[10]
Sansa was Turner's first television role.
[2]
Turner's drama teacher encouraged her to audition for the part,
[11]
and she dyed her blonde hair auburn for the role, although in season 7 she began wearing wigs. In 2012, she was nominated for the
Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Series ? Supporting Young Actress
for her performance as Sansa, alongside her on-screen sister,
Maisie Williams
. Turner appeared in all eight broadcast seasons.
[12]
Turner at the season 3 premiere of
Game of Thrones
in 2013
While playing Sansa Stark, Turner was told to lose weight and she said she suffered from mental health problems while spending her teenage years on screen.
[13]
[14]
She also had an
eating disorder
.
[15]
[16]
In 2013, she had her first movie role as the lead character in the
independent
thriller film
Another Me
, based on the novel of the same name by
Catherine MacPhail
. She starred as Adeline March in the 2013 television film
The Thirteenth Tale
.
In 2013, she was cast in the comedy film
Barely Lethal
, alongside
Hailee Steinfeld
, which was released on 29 May 2015 in a
limited release
and through
video on demand
.
[17]
[18]
Turner also narrated the
audiobook
version of the
Lev Grossman
short story ‘The Girl in the Mirror’,
[19]
which was included in the short fiction anthology
Dangerous Women
and was edited by
George R. R. Martin
. In 2014, she narrated the
audiobook
City of Heavenly Fire
by Cassandra Clare.
[20]
[21]
The same year, she was the face of
Karen Millen
's "The Journey" campaign.
[22]
Turner played mutant
Jean Grey
in
X-Men: Apocalypse
, which was released in May 2016 to mixed critical success.
[23]
During summer 2016, she hosted the web video
Powershift
in partnership with the
Huffington Post
.
[24]
[25]
Turner in 2017
In March 2017, she announced she had become patron of
Women for Women
, an organisation that supports female war survivors.
[26]
In August 2017, Turner said she believed her social media following was responsible for her successful casting in an unnamed project rather than her abilities as an actress, saying, "[I]t was between me and another girl who is a far better actress than I am, far better, but I had the followers, so I got the job."
[27]
In June 2017, she began a collaboration with Wella Hair, becoming its first international brand ambassador.
[28]
In November 2017, Turner was cast to play
Juliane Koepcke
in the movie
Girl Who Fell From the Sky
. She is also attached to produce the movie.
[29]
In March and April 2018, she filmed the independent film
Heavy
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
[30]
Turner reprised her role as Jean Grey in the
X-Men
film
Dark Phoenix
, which takes place in 1992 and follows the events of
Apocalypse
. The film was released in June 2019.
[31]
[32]
She has been featured in print work for the luxury designer brand
Louis Vuitton
.
[33]
In September 2019, Turner was cast in the thriller television show
Survive
.
[34]
In 2022, Turner appeared in a minor role as Erica in the teen black comedy
Do Revenge
. Turner figures in a pivotal scene where her character is accused of drug possession and has an "over-the-top" reaction. The scene went viral due to Turner's delivery of the line, which she admitted was intentionally played to emulate cinema outbursts from actors like
Leonardo DiCaprio
and
Jack Nicholson
.
[35]
Turner began dating American singer
Joe Jonas
in 2016.
[36]
They became engaged in October 2017
[37]
and were married on 1 May 2019 in
Las Vegas
,
Nevada
.
[38]
The couple lived in
New York City
as of May?2019.
[update]
[1]
[39]
They held a second wedding ceremony in
Carpentras
,
France
on 29 June 2019.
[40]
The couple have two daughters, born July 2020 and July 2022.
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Turner was the inspiration behind the song "Hesitate", written as a love letter to her by Jonas, for the
Jonas Brothers
reunion album,
Happiness Begins
.
[43]
In early September 2023, Jonas filed for divorce from Turner in
Miami
,
Florida
.
[44]
This was then confirmed by both Turner and Jonas via Instagram to be a mutual decision.
[45]
[46]
Later that month, she sued her estranged husband to allow their daughters, who were born in the United States, to return to England, as the former couple had registered the latter as their
permanent residence
in April earlier that year.
[47]
Jonas and Turner reached a temporary custody agreement in October.
[48]