Anya Taylor-Joy

At 28 years old, Anya Taylor-Joy has this physical status:

Anya Josephine Taylor-Joy (born 16 April 1996), an American-born Argentine-British actress and model. She was named on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2021, and she has received a number of prestigious awards, including a Golden Globe Award.

Early life

Taylor-Joy was born in Miami, Florida, on April 16, 1996, to Dennis Alan Taylor, OBE, a former banker, and Jennifer Marina Joy, a psychologist. Since her parents were holidaying in Miami at the time, she has described her birth as a "fluke," but she claims she was granted American citizenship as a result of her birthplace; according to the country's jus soli nationality law. Her father, a British father and an Anglo-Argentine mother, is an Argentine of English and Scottish descent. Her mother was born in Zambia to an English diplomat father, David Joy, and a Spanish mother from Barcelona. She is the youngest of six children, four of whom are from her father's earlier marriage.

Taylor-Joy and her family lived in Buenos Aires and attended Northlands School until the age of six, when the family moved to London's Victoria neighborhood. She is fluent in both Spanish and English. Taylor-Joy found the change "traumatic" and refused to study English in the hopes of returning to Argentina. She appeared in school plays at Hill House International Junior School and Queen's Gate School. She left school at the age of 16, blaming bullying from her classmates as the reason; she recalled:

Taylor-Joyne began training in dance and was studying ballet before being 16 years old. When walking her dog outside a Storm Management founder Sarah Doukas' Harrods department store in Knightsbridge, London, she was spotted as a model by age 17. She hired the company on the understanding that acting was her passion and aspiration. Taylor-Joy was noticed by Downton Abbey actor Allen Leech running errands for the crew and reciting the Seamus Heaney poem "Digging" for a forthcoming screentest during a modelling shoot promoting the television series Downton Abbey, which she had almost turned down for because she was studying for her GCSE examinations. He later introduced her to his agent, with whom she registered as an actor.

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Career

Taylor-Joy was dropped from the final cut of her first acting role as a background 'Feeder Girl' in the 2014 fantasy comedy-horror Vampire Academy, with her name left uncredited. Philippa Collins-Davidson made her television debut in an episode of Endeavour's detective drama series Endeavour, and she followed this up with a multi-episode arc of the 2015 fantasy-adventure drama series Atlantis. She starred in The Witch, a period horror film directed by Robert Eggers, which tells the tale of a Puritan family who encounters powers of evil in the woods beyond their New England farm. Taylor-Joy's performance at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival earned critical acclaim, and critics lauded it. "Taylor-Joy is a marvel in the role, her wide-eyed innocence interwoven with a thread of cunning," Anthony Lane of The New Yorker wrote, "testing whether she is observant and curious in a young girl with a fine and curious personality is the source of her intrigue." The film was a commercial success, and she received the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Female Newcomer and the Empire Award for Best Female Newcomer.

Taylor-Joy starred in Luke Scott's science fiction horror film Morgan, playing the title character. It received poor feedback and was a commercial failure, but Booth Michigan's John Serba wrote, "Taylor-Joy disarms us with a show that teeters between little-girl innocent and dead-eyed brutality." She appeared in the drama film Barry, which focuses on a young Barack Obama in his first year at Columbia University in 1981; it premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. Taylor-Joy's likeness was licensed from Storm Management to portray Valkyrie Cain on the tenth anniversary book cover of Skulduggery Pleasant's seventh, eighth, and fourteenth books in the series, shortly after she appeared in a music video for Skrillex's remix of GTA's "Red Lips."

In 2016, she played Casey Cooke, a teenage girl kid abducted by a man with multiple personalities in M. Night Shyamalan's Split, where she was cast opposite James McAvoy. (McAvoy). It was a commercial success, grossing $278.5 million on a budget of $9 million. Cory Finley's debut film in the year Thoroughbreds was her next film of the year. In his last film role, Olivia Cooke and Anton Yelchin co-starred. Taylor-Joy portrayed Lily, a high school student who intends to murder her stepfather through a deal with a drug dealer. It premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and IndieWire's David Ehrlich called her role "captivating." Sergio G. Sánchez's horror mystery Marrowbone, which ensemble cast members applauded, was her third book outing; Tasha Robinson of The Verge wrote that Taylor-Joy added "a shy, appealing warmth" to an unstable character. Taylor-Joy was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award and was honoured Trophée Chopard at the Cannes Film Festival this year. Petronella Oortman was the central protagonist of a BBC One period drama miniseries The Miniaturist, based on Jessie Burton's book of the same name.

Taylor-Joy reprised her role as Casey Cooke in the 2019 psychological thriller Glass, the final film in the Unbreakable film trilogy, starring McAvoy, Samuel L. Jackson, and Sarah Paulson. It was a commercial success, grossing $247 million around the world, but unlike its predecessor, it received mixed feedback. She appeared in the documentary film Love, Antosha, on Anton Yelchin's life and work as well as in Hozier's music video for his song "Dinner & Diatribes" later this year. Playmobil, the animated musical adventure film, and biographical drama film Radioactive were both disappointing commercial failures for the next two films in 2019—the animated musical adventure film Playmobil: Playmobil: The Movie and biographical drama film Radioactive. She also portrayed Brea in the Netflix animated fantasy series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. In her last role as a woman in the BBC One period crime drama series Peaky Blinders, she appeared as Gina Gray in her final role of 2019.

Taylor-Joy starred Emma Woodhouse in Autumn de Wilde's debut Emma, an adaptation of Jane Austen's 1815 book of the same name. Rolling Stone's Peter Travers called Taylor-Joy "incandescent." In the superhero horror film The New Mutants, Taylor-Joy portrayed Illyana Rasputin/Magik, a Russian mutant and sorceress. It was originally planned to be released in April 2018, but it was delayed several times before being released in 2020.

Taylor-Joy starred in the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit as Beth Harmon, an orphanage chess prodigy battling with heroin and alcohol use on her climb to the top of the chess world, as well as struggling with heroin and alcohol dependence. The series and her performance have received brisk critical acclaim. Netflix revealed on November 23, 2020, that it had been seen by 62 million households since its debut, becoming the nation's "most scripted limited series to date." Taylor-Joy's appearance "darkly stunning" and she wrote how she "excels in the quiet moments, [with] her eyelids narrowing as she defides an opponent, [and] her entire body physical appearance when the game turns against her," according to Entertainment Weekly's Darren Franich. In the same way, Caroline Framke of Variety discovered she was "so magnetic" that when she gazes down the camera lens, her flinty glare threatens to cut right through it. Taylor-Joy received several awards for her performances, including winning a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild, and a Critics' Choice Television Award.

She appeared in the drama film Here Are the Young Men, directed by Eoin Macken and based on Rob Doyle's book; it wasn't announced until April 2021. She appeared in Edgar Wright's psychological thriller Last Night in Soho in 2021, and she was released in October 2021. She appears in the film as "Downtown," Petula Clark's song; a music video of Taylor-Joy performing the song out of character in a recording studio was released to coincide with the film's release.

Taylor-Joy re-teamed with filmmaker Robert Eggers in 2022 for a leading part in the classic epic The Northman, which was described as "a Viking revenge saga set in Iceland at the start of the twentieth century." The film was released in April 2022 to a warm critical reception.

Taylor-Joy is expected to appear in David O. Russell's time film Amsterdam and Mark Mylod's The Menu, both set for release in November 2022. In the Mad Max: Fury Road prequel Furiosa, she is expected to play the titular character. Taylor-Joy had been attached to perform in Robert Eggers' adaptation of F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu, but it was announced in September 2022 that Taylor-Joy had been postponed due to scheduling conflicts. She appeared in The Sea Change, a drama film from that year. Scott Frank, the writer-director of The Queen's Gambit, announced in December 2020 that he wanted to film a version of Vladimir Nabokov's book Laughter, starring Taylor-Joy. She was announced in September 2021 to appear in Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic's The Super Mario Bros. film, which is set to be released on April 7th 2023. Taylor-Joy appeared in Scott Derrickson's "action love story" The Gorge in October 2022.

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