20 Actors You Probably Forgot Were in YA Adaptation Movies

20. Patricia Clarkson - Maze Runner series

Patricia Clarkson has amassed a number of film, television and theater credits over her career. Among them was Pieces of April, for which she nabbed an Oscar nomination. Others include Miracle, The Green Mile and Jumanji.

One of her more high-profile roles begin with 2014's The Maze Runner. The film was the first in the series based on a group of novels, the first of which featured a group of amnesiac young people thrown into an apparent forest setting surrounded by a massive maze inhabited by deadly creatures.

Clarkson was tapped to play Ava Paige, a scientist in charge of the mysterious goings on, throughout the series. The character is a complex one. Often she is portrayed as a villain, but a sympathetic one whose motives and intentions are pure.