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Her roles in films such as "The Witch", "Split", "Glass", "Emma", "The Queen's Gambit", and "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga".
Bio Dates and Places
Born Date: 16 April 1996.
Born Place: Miami, Florida, U.S.
Career
Current occupation: Actress and model.
Past occupations: Ballet dancer.
Achievements and Recognition
Awards: Golden Globe Award, SAG Award, and nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.
Education
Attended Northlands School, Hill House International Junior School, and Queen's Gate School. Left school at 16 to pursue an acting career.
Skills
Classically trained in ballet, experience in memorizing choreographies and enhancing stunts.
Languages
Languages Spoken: Spanish and English.
Lifestyle
Past Sport Activity and Training Regime: Trained in ballet until the age of 15.
Family
Parents: Dennis Alan Taylor (father), Jennifer Marina Joy (mother).
Siblings: Youngest of six siblings, four of whom are from her father's previous marriage.
Main Milestones
Birth
April 16, 1996
Anya Taylor-Joy was born in Miami, Florida, to Dennis Alan Taylor, a former banker, and Jennifer Marina Joy, a psychologist. Her birth in Miami was a result of her parents vacationing in the city, which granted her American citizenship due to the country's jus soli nationality law.
Move to London
Age 6
Taylor-Joy moved from Buenos Aires to London with her family, where they lived in the Victoria area. This move was significant as it marked a period of cultural adjustment and initial struggles in school.
Move to New York
Age 14
Using her savings, Taylor-Joy moved to New York at the age of 14, a decision that would eventually lead her to pursue her acting career more seriously.
Left School to Pursue Acting
Age 16
Taylor-Joy left school at 16 to focus on her acting career, a pivotal decision that set the stage for her future success in the entertainment industry.
Breakthrough Role in The Witch
2015
Taylor-Joy's outstanding performance as Thomasin in Robert Eggers' period horror film The Witch at the Sundance festival revealed her incredible potential to the world, marking her breakthrough in the film industry.
Roles in Morgan and Split
2016
She starred as the title character in the thriller Morgan and as Casey Cooke in M. Night Shyamalan's horror-thriller film Split, further establishing her versatility as an actress.
BAFTA Rising Star Award Nomination
2017
Taylor-Joy was nominated for the 2017 BAFTA Rising Star Award, recognizing her rapid rise and promising career in acting.
International Recognition with The Queen's Gambit
2020
She earned international recognition and critical acclaim for her role as Beth Harmon in the Netflix period drama miniseries The Queen's Gambit, winning a Golden Globe and SAG Award, and being nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.
Diverse Roles in Last Night in Soho, The Northman, and The Menu
2021-2022
Taylor-Joy continued to showcase her range with roles in the horror film Last Night in Soho, the action film The Northman, and the black comedy film The Menu, solidifying her status as a versatile actress.
Voice Role in The Super Mario Bros. Movie
2023
She voiced Princess Peach in the animated film The Super Mario Bros. Movie, expanding her repertoire to include voice acting.
Upcoming Roles in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
2024
Taylor-Joy is set to star as Imperator Furiosa in the apocalyptic film Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, marking another significant role in her ongoing career.
Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy (/ˈænjə/;[1] born 16 April 1996) is an actress.[a] Born in Miami and raised in Buenos Aires and London, she left school at the age of 16, following which she pursued an acting career. After a series of small television roles, her breakthrough came with a leading role in the horror film The Witch (2015). Her career progressed with roles in the horror film Split (2016) and its sequel Glass (2019), the black comedy film Thoroughbreds (2017), and for playing Emma Woodhouse in the period drama Emma (2020).
Taylor-Joy was born on 16 April 1996 in Miami, Florida, to Dennis Alan Taylor,[4] a former banker, and Jennifer Marina Joy, a psychologist. Her father is an Argentine of English and Scottish descent, the son of a British father and an Anglo-Argentine mother.[5][6][7] Her mother was born in Zambia to an English diplomat father, David Joy, and a Spanish mother from Barcelona, Montserrat Morancho.[8] She 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 solinationality law.[9] She is the youngest of six siblings, four of whom are from her father's previous marriage.[10]
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.[7][11] She is fluent in Spanish and English.[7][10][12] Taylor-Joy experienced the move as "traumatic" and initially refused to learn English in hopes of moving back to Argentina.[13] She attended Hill House International Junior School[14] and Queen's Gate School, acting in school productions. She struggled socially at school, recalling:
I didn't really feel like I fit in anywhere. I was too English to be Argentine, too Argentine to be English, too American to be anything ... The kids just didn't understand me in any shape or form ... I used to get locked in lockers.[7]
Taylor-Joy initially trained in dance, studying ballet until the age of 15.[15] At age 17, she was scouted as a model by Storm Management founder Sarah Doukas, while walking her dog outside Harrods department store in Knightsbridge, London.[7][16] She signed with the agency on the condition that acting remain her first passion and pursuit. During a modelling shoot promoting the television series Downton Abbey, which she had almost rejected because she was studying for her GCSE examinations, Taylor-Joy was noticed by the Downton Abbey actor Allen Leech while running errands for the crew and while reciting the Seamus Heaney poem "Digging" for a forthcoming screentest. He later introduced her to his agent, with whom she signed as an actress.[17]
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.[18][19] She 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.[20] That same year, she starred in The Witch, a period horror film directed by Robert Eggers, which tells the story of a Puritan family that encounters forces of evil in the woods beyond their New England farm. It premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim.[21][22] The role was her breakthrough.[23][24]Anthony Lane of The New Yorker called Taylor-Joy "remarkable in the role, her wide-eyed innocence entwined with a thread of cunning—proof either of her quick wits, scarcely unusual in a clever and curious girl, or of some fell purpose."[25] She won the Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Actor and the Empire Award for Best Female Newcomer.[26][27]
The following year, Taylor-Joy starred in Luke Scott's science fiction horror film Morgan, playing the title character. It received negative reviews and was a commercial failure, but Booth Michigan's John Serba wrote that "Taylor-Joy disarms us with a performance that keenly teeter-totters between little-girl innocent and dead-eyed viciousness."[28] She next starred in the drama film Barry, which focused on a young Barack Obama during his first year at Columbia University in 1981; it premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.[29] The same year, Taylor-Joy's likeness was licensed from Storm Management to represent the character of Valkyrie Cain on the tenth anniversary book cover of Skulduggery Pleasant, and subsequently the covers of the seventh, eighth, ninth, and fourteenth books in the series,[30] before she appeared in the music video for Skrillex's remix of GTA's song "Red Lips".[31]
Taylor-Joy reprised her role as Casey Cooke in the 2019 psychological superhero film Glass, the final film in the Unbreakable film trilogy, appearing with McAvoy, Samuel L. Jackson and Sarah Paulson.[39] It was a commercial success, grossing $247 million worldwide,[40] Later that year, she appeared in the documentary film Love, Antosha, on the life and career of her late co-star Anton Yelchin; and in Hozier's music video for his song "Dinner & Diatribes".[41][42] Her next two 2019 films, the animated musical adventure film Playmobil: The Movie and biographical drama film Radioactive, were commercial failures.[43] She also voiced the character of Brea in the fantasy series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.[44] In her final role of 2019, she played the starring role of Gina Gray in the BBC One period crime drama series Peaky Blinders.[45]
In 2020, 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. Reviewing the film, Peter Travers of Rolling Stone deemed Taylor-Joy "incandescent".[46]The Guardian critic Mark Kermode described 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".[47] She received a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance.[48] Taylor-Joy also portrayed Illyana Rasputin/Magik, a Russian mutant and sorceress, in the superhero horror film The New Mutants. It was originally intended for release in April 2018 but experienced several delays; it was released in 2020.[49]
In 2022, Taylor-Joy reunited with The Witch director Robert Eggers for a starring role opposite Alexander Skarsgård in the historical epic The Northman. Based on the old Scandinavian legend of Amleth, the film was described as "a Viking revenge saga set in Iceland at the turn of century".[64] It received a positive critical reception.[65][66] Taylor-Joy then appeared in David O. Russell's period comedy Amsterdam, which received mixed reviews and failed commercially.[67][68] Released the following month was Mark Mylod's black comedy thriller The Menu, in which Taylor-Joy starred opposite Nicholas Hoult and Ralph Fiennes.[69] The film garnered largely positive reviews,[70][71] and her performance gained her a Golden Globe Award nomination.[72] The following year, Taylor-Joy had a voice role as Princess Peach in the animated film The Super Mario Bros. Movie.[73]
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.[74] She 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. Taylor Joy declared the film to have been an unpleasant working endeavor, stating: "I’ve never been more alone than making that movie ... I don’t want to go too deep into it, but everything that I thought was going to be easy was hard."[75][76] Nevertheless, she earned praise for her performance, being described by The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw as "an overwhelmingly convincing action heroine"[77]
Taylor-Joy began a relationship with the American musician Malcolm McRae, frontman of the rock band More, in 2021. They married in a private ceremony on 1 April 2022 in New Orleans.[80] They held a second ceremony in September 2023 at the Palazzo Pisani Moretta in Venice, Italy.[81][82]
The Hollywood Reporter named Taylor-Joy on their list of 2016 Hollywood's Rising Stars 35 and Under, and she was included in a similar list compiled by W magazine in 2017.[83][84] In 2019, she appeared on the annual Forbes 30 Under 30 list, a compilation of "the brightest young entrepreneurs, innovators and game changers in the world".[85] In 2020, she was named "Breakthrough Entertainer" of the Year by the Associated Press and "Breakout Star of 2020" by the New York Post.[86] In 2021, Time included Taylor-Joy on its 100 Next list of "emerging leaders who are shaping the future", with a tribute written by former World Chess ChampionGarry Kasparov.[87] She has been an ambassador for brands including Viktor & Rolf, Tiffany & Co.[88][89]Dior's fashion and makeup,[90] and Jaeger-LeCoultre.[91]
^ abTaylor-Joy is a dual national of the United Kingdom and United States, born in Miami to an Argentine-British father and British-Spanish mother, and raised in Argentina and the United Kingdom. Sources conflict on her citizenship status in Argentina, regarding whether she is an Argentine national or merely a legal permanent resident of Argentina without citizenship.[2][3]
^Craik, Laura (27 March 2016). "Anya Taylor-Joy casts her spell". The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 31 May 2022. Retrieved 1 February 2023. At its Sundance premiere in January last year, critics hailed it as a "horror masterpiece", but it's much more than a horror film.
^Spangler, Todd (23 November 2020). "'The Queen's Gambit' Scores as Netflix Most-Watched Scripted Limited Series to Date". Variety. Archived from the original on 24 November 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2020. The way Netflix reports viewing is based on the number of viewers who have watched at least two minutes of a piece of content, which is very different from how the TV industry measures audience
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