Carita Rizzo From her unforgettable strut down the water-filled aisle as Araminta Lee in Crazy Rich Asians, to her turn as a chain-smoking scientist in Cary Joji Fukunaga’s Netflix series Maniac, Sonoya Mizuno has in the past few years proven that she can disappear into characters, even without a costume as extreme as the faceless humanoid she portrayed in Alex Garland’s Annihilation. But taking on the role of software engineer Lily Chan, in Garland’s first foray into television, forced the British-Japanese dancer-turned-actress to access all of her professional skills, showing once and for all that she is capable of taking center stage.
