Anya Taylor-Joy Bio
Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy (born April 16, 1996) is a British-American actress. She is best known for her roles as Beth Harmon in The Queen’s Gambit (2020), Thomasin in the period horror film The Witch (2015), as Casey Cooke in the horror-thriller Split (2016), and as Lily in the black comedy thriller Thoroughbreds (2017). She has been the recipient of the Cannes Film Festival’s Trophée Chopard and was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award.
Anya’s outstanding performance as Thomasin in Robert Eggers’ period horror film The Witch (2015), and the positive reviews it got at the Sundance festival revealed her incredible potential to the world; it was widely released and viewed in 2016. She then starred as the title character in the thriller Morgan (2016), directed Luke Scott and also starring Kate Mara.
She also starred in Vikram Gandhi’s film Barry, which focused on a young Barack Obama in 1981 New York City. Taylor-Joy played one of Obama’s close friends. In 2017, she headlined M. Night Shyamalan’s horror-thriller film Split (2016), playing Casey Cooke, a girl abducted by a mysterious man with split personalities. In 2019, she reprised her role as Casey in the film Glass. Anya was also the lead actress in the music video for Skrillex’s remix of GTA’s song Red Lips. She was nominated for the 2017 BAFTA Rising Star Award.
Taylor-Joy is attached to star in Nosferatu, a remake of the film of the same name, to be directed by Eggers in her third collaboration with him. She will also star in The Sea Change.
Family
Spouse
Malcolm McRae (April 1, 2022 – present)
Parents
Dennis Taylor
Jennifer Marina Joy
Trademark
Large, wide-set eyes
High cheekbones
Her British accent.
Trivia
Spoke only Spanish until she was 8 years old, when she learned English after moving to London. She is fluent in Spanish and English. When she speaks in Spanish, she has a highly notorious Argentine accent.
The first film she watched in cinema after moving to England was Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002). Although she didn’t speak English at the time, she said that it didn’t matter. During the Basilisk scenes, her mother held her hand in front of Anya’s eyes. But she was able to peek through her mother’s fingers, which gave her the opportunity to witness what was going on. She described it as the moment that made her fall in love with cinema.
Though primarily seen with dark hair, she is a natural blonde.
She can play the ukulele and the guitar.
She became a model after being scouted in London by Sarah Doukas, founder of Storm Model Managment. However, she almost missed that chance, because she initially mistook Doukas for a stalker. While walking outside of a Harrods department store, she noticed a car trailing her, and she tried to run away.
She then heard someone calling from the car “If you stop you won’t regret it… please, there’s someone in this car who would really like to meet you.” Anya consented and was signed to Storm the following day. Through her modeling job, she would later meet an acting agency where she signed up, and it all went from there.
Is the youngest of six sibling, four of whom are from her father’s previous marriage.
She did buy an electric guitar while shooting Split (2016).
Has a fear of revolving doors, especially the thought of getting stuck between the curved enclosures, something that happened to her on the set of Peaky Blinders (2013) and freaked her out.
When Anya was born, her father, Dennis, was already in his mid fifties.
Invited to join the actor’s branch of AMPAS in 2022.
Net worth
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) – $1,800,000
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