How old is effy

Unlike his former co-stars, Mike seems to have stepped away from the spotlight. His last on-screen roles were in , in a short film titled Faulty and a TV series called Hers and History. Surprisingly it is Katie, part of the parade, who notices Effy and despite their past, she helps Effy find Freddie. Effy has her own problems. Evidence that could destroy her reputation and even put her in jail. While Freddie tries to leave Foster wields a baseball bat and walks toward Freddie telling him that Effy truly loves him and that needs to be out of the equation for him to get anywhere with Effy and consequently murders Freddie with a baseball bat.

But it was in the third series that Effy would come into her own, becoming the principle character, inheriting Hoult's keystone role once he and the other year-old actors had outgrown the programme's sixth-form focus. Kaya had assumed she'd be off at the end of series two like the rest of them.

It was crazy. Becoming the key character meant that, within weeks of taking her GCSEs, Kaya, now 16 and chaperone-free, had to decamp from Camden full-time for six months' shooting on location.

This made for a much more intense experience on set. She's closest to the actors who play Freddie, Cook and JJ, their amateur-illusionist pal. I love them to pieces. We still see each other now; we hang out most weeks. She's seeing rather more of one of them, however: Jack O'Connell, who plays Cook, is her boyfriend. And then halfway though filming we got closer It's good that he's an actor because he understands it all. And we can practice our lines together.

It's just amazing that we manage to make it work. It just sort of happened. We don't need to try. There's also the knowledge that, at the end of the summer, they'll be reunited when they're locked inside their bubble in an alien city once again. Kaya doesn't know what tragedies lie in store for Effy in series four. I've given my opinion But they'll probably just do what they want anyway! One thing's for certain: this will be Kaya's final series of Skins, after which the series will move on to its third generation of students at Roundview Sixth Form College.

And I do an American accent which I'm really embarrassed about! Effy is Tony Stonem 's runaway sister and one of the few people he truly cares about. She usually goes to social events with her own group of friends, leaving Tony uninvolved in most of her social life, though he helped her on more than one occasion to deceive their parents as to her whereabouts.

The official website refers to "Tony's little sister and her shadowy ways. In her first speaking appearance, she describes how she feels toward others:. Tony sarcastically comments that she is participating in a sponsored silence, and when asked by Michelle why she never speaks, she simply doesn't answer.

On her blog she reveals that her parents had her see a counselor for withholding speech, but that proved ineffective. After Tony's life-threatening accident in the finale of the first series, Effy begins speaking again. After expressing her feelings of misanthropy to Tony, however, her brother snidely remarks to her that she "doesn't fool [him]", suggesting that she is more vulnerable than her guarded and apparent aloofness may lead others to believe.

She also proves to be perceptive and sly, as she almost single-handedly mends both Tony and Michelle's and Sid and Cassie's romantic relationships, a task that seemed essentially hopeless. In the third series Effy became a central character, developing into something of a femme fatale and the rebel of Roundview College. Despite her usual composure, she goes "off the rails" after her parents' separation and the love triangle between her and her classmates Freddie Mclair and James Cook , once close friends before their rivalry over Effy pushed them apart.

Of the two, she loves Freddie more, but she is afraid of dealing with real love, so she instead goes after Cook. Her mother, Anthea Stonem, justifies Effy's behavior to JJ Jones by saying that "showing her cards scares her to death". Effy's state is also exacerbated by Tony's absence, as he had proved to be a stabilizing force in her life, as also shown in a blog entry by Effy posted on the official Skins website.

In her eponymous episode in season three, Effy is depicted at her most fragile: she appears completely withdrawn from the world, participates in mindless sex with Cook and takes uncharacteristically little care with her appearance, appearing tired and fatigued.

These factors hint at the development of Effy's depression, which will descend into full-blown psychosis in the next series. In the fourth series, she returns to Bristol after being away in Venice for the summer. She and Freddie begin their relationship again deciding that she loves him, thus letting go of Cook for good. She begins to have psychotic episodes and delusional symptoms and Freddie realizes that Effy has developed psychotic depression.

She attempts suicide but Freddie, foreseeing this, saves her and she is taken to hospital and later, institutionalized. Anthea tells Freddie that they both need to be there to rebuild Effy, but Freddie tells her that only she will be there for her, seemingly letting go of Effy. Though they reconcile, when she leaves treatment in her centric episode, it is shown she is being abused by her obsessive psychiatrist and his unconventional hypnotic methods for treating her; Dr.

Foster attempts to make Effy "forget" her friends. At the site of Tony's accident, Effy suffers another breakdown and, in traffic, attempts suicide once again.

When Freddie confronts Dr. Foster about Effy's treatment, the doctor kills him. In the finale of season four, Effy is once again out of treatment, and even following Freddie's mysterious disappearance is secure in that he loved her. Effy is one of few characters in the series who has broken the fourth wall, having looked straight at the camera and commented or smirking in some episodes; another person to do this and probably the most obvious was Rich Generation 3 in Series 6 episode 10 "Everyone finale , looking straight at the camera, saying the word "bye", resembling the end of Skins in its entirety, aside from Series 7 being a 6 episode redux.

On her official Skins page, Effy claims she is distantly related to the 18th-century French aristocrat Cecile DeLacroix, who was beheaded during the French Revolution. She also says her favorite smell is petrol, and describes a peculiar talent of being able to pick up objects with her toes.

Her favorite film is E. Her best friend is odd girl Pandora Moon , who despite their differences, "gives the detached and cool Effy a heart". Effy was born in to Anthea and Jim Stonem and from a young age expressed a mind of exceptional cognitive abilities, with her being able to successfully beat her mother at hide and seek and remain hidden for four hours before eventually being found.

She had a very close relationship with her equally intellectual and cunning older brother Tony and although the two didn't engage in many social activities together they truly loved each other and thought the world of one another. During her childhood she had the comfort object of a stuffed giraffe doll named Patto. Effy comes home in the early morning. In "Tony", Effy is seen one morning briefly walking home at the beginning of the episode, apparently from partying the night before.

Her brother Tony distracts her father so that she can sneak back into the house, a routine they are both clearly familiar with. In "Effy", Tony is forced to care about someone other than himself for once when Effy — one of the only people he cares about — disappears during a night of partying with a boy named Spencer. After taking various drugs, Spencer leads Effy to a party, where Josh Stock injects her with stolen clean pharmaceuticals.

When Effy overdoses, Josh tells Tony that he will only let him take her to the hospital if Tony has sex with his unconscious sister, which Josh demands in revenge for Tony scheming against his relationship with Michelle. After Tony begs for forgiveness, Josh lets them go, and Tony rushes to the hospital with Effy and Sid Jenkins , where Effy is told that she will be fine.

During this episode Effy shows some tendencies similar to an arsonist, setting certain objects alight with her cigarette lighter. Effy crying when Tony gets hit by a bus. In the series finale , we learn that Effy's parents have moved her to the private school in the aftermath of her drug episode. More layers to her character appear as she derides Tony verbally as a wanker for his treatment of ex-girlfriend Michelle , who had come to her previously in an attempt to understand Tony.

She witnesses as Tony is hit by a bus, and screams in horror, crying silently as the finale takes place. Effy sneaking out with Tony. In the second series, we learn that Effy has now begun to speak openly, at least amongst her family and presumably among others as well. She also continues to party, as seen in the first episode of the second series, despite the events of "Effy" last series where both she and Tony were put through a traumatic experience. In the sixth episode "Tony", it becomes clear that she is looking after Tony since his accident, where she is seen comforting him from his nightmares by reading him Greek myths.

She also speaks to Michelle and Sid, but is fairly unfriendly with both of them. In this series' Effy-centric episode, it is revealed that Effy and Tony's father is on a business trip in France while their mother stays at home each day, depressed and taking Tony's medication. Effy on the other hand has taken on the role of a parental figure somewhat, where she is seen washing and drying her and Tony's clothes albeit ineptly , and watching after her mother.

Effy meets her new friend Pandora Moon. At school Effy's art teacher appoints Effy to the task of helping new girl Pandora, and explains that she must do well on her GCSE Art coursework or else she'll be expelled.

Although Effy clearly objects to the former, she allows Pandora to follow her around, and even takes her home with her. Back at home Tony receives a parcel from Michelle, which is actually the watch he gave her for her birthday, prompting him to become further frustrated with Sid.

Sid explains to Effy his problems, in which she agrees that in exchange for doing her GCSE Art coursework, she promises to sort out Sid's struggling social enterprises; specifically concerning his love for the estranged Cassie Ainsworth. Effy, with Pandora in tow, picks up weed at Cassie's where she inquires about her relationship with Sid, but otherwise doesn't probe the subject. Effy is later seen taking the drugs to a club, where she sells them and is also seen by Tony selling Michelle's watch, prompting him to be angered with her.

It is revealed later that Effy didn't sell it, but instead had it repaired and sent back to Michelle with the word "forever" engraved in it, softening Michelle enough to speak to Tony again. As for Sid, Effy sends an acquaintance of hers called Jake to Cassie's — knowing the chances that they would sleep together — and takes a series of photos through the window.