1. Anya Taylor-Joy's career progressed with roles in the horror film Split and its sequel Glass, the black comedy film Thoroughbreds, and for playing Emma Woodhouse in the period drama Emma.
30 Facts About Anya Taylor-Joy
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Anya Taylor-Joy then starred in the horror film Last Night in Soho, the action films The Northman and The Gorge, and the black comedy The Menu.
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Anya Taylor-Joy voiced Princess Peach in the animated film The Super Mario Bros.
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Anya Taylor-Joy was born on 16 April 1996 in Miami, Florida, to Dennis Alan Taylor, a former banker, and Jennifer Marina Joy, a psychologist.
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Anya Taylor-Joy's father is an Argentine of English and Scottish descent, the son of a British father and an Anglo-Argentine mother.
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Anya Taylor-Joy's mother was born in Zambia to an English diplomat father, David Joy, and a Spanish mother from Barcelona.
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Anya Taylor-Joy has stated that her birth in Miami was a "fluke", since her parents had been vacationing in the city at the time; because of her birthplace, she holds American citizenship due to the country's jus soli nationality law.
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Anya Taylor-Joy is the youngest of six siblings, four of whom are from her father's previous marriage.
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Anya Taylor-Joy lived with her family in Buenos Aires and attended Northlands School until the age of six, when the family moved to the Victoria area of London.
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Anya Taylor-Joy experienced the move as "traumatic" and initially refused to learn English in hopes of moving back to Argentina.
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Anya Taylor-Joy attended Hill House International Junior School and Queen's Gate School, acting in school productions.
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Anya Taylor-Joy initially trained in dance, studying ballet until the age of 15.
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Anya Taylor-Joy signed with the agency on the condition that acting remain her first passion and pursuit.
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Anya Taylor-Joy later introduced her to his agent, with whom she signed as an actress.
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Anya Taylor-Joy made her acting debut in the 2014 fantasy comedy-horror Vampire Academy, but her scenes as a background "Feeder Girl" were dropped from the final cut.
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Anya Taylor-Joy made her television debut as Philippa Collins-Davidson in an episode of the detective drama series Endeavour, followed by a multi-episode arc in the 2015 fantasy-adventure drama series Atlantis.
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Anya Taylor-Joy played Lily, a high-school student who schemes to kill her stepfather via a contract with a drug dealer.
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Anya Taylor-Joy was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award, and was awarded the Trophee Chopard at the Cannes Film Festival that year.
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Anya Taylor-Joy voiced the character of Brea in the fantasy series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.
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In 2020, Anya Taylor-Joy starred as Emma Woodhouse in Autumn de Wilde's directorial debut Emma, an adaptation of Jane Austen's 1815 novel of the same name.
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The Guardian critic Mark Kermode described Anya Taylor-Joy as having created an "admirably spiky character who is less likable than some of her screen predecessors, and all the better for it".
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Anya Taylor-Joy received a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance.
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Anya Taylor-Joy starred in the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit as Beth Harmon, an orphaned chess prodigy on her rise to the top of the chess world while struggling with drug and alcohol dependency.
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Anya Taylor-Joy was included on Time magazine's 100 Next list that same year.
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In 2022, Anya Taylor-Joy reunited with The Witch director Robert Eggers for a starring role opposite Alexander Skarsgard in the historical epic The Northman.
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Anya Taylor-Joy then appeared in David O Russell's period comedy Amsterdam, which received mixed reviews and failed commercially.
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Anya Taylor-Joy began 2024 with a cameo role as Alia Atreides in Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two, a casting that was initially kept secret and was not publicly announced until she walked the red carpet at the film's London premiere.
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Anya Taylor-Joy next starred as the titular character in George Miller's action film Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, which served as a prequel to the 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road.
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Anya Taylor-Joy began a relationship with the American musician Malcolm McRae, frontman of the rock band More, in 2021.
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Anya Taylor-Joy won the Empire Award for Best Newcomer and being nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor in 2016.