Anya Taylor Joy

Biography of Anya Taylor Joy

Anya Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy was born on April 16, 1996 in Miami, Florida. She is an Argentine-British actress.

Taylor-Joy is the youngest of six children. She was born in Miami in 1996. Her mother is Hispanic-British and her father is Scottish-Argentinian. In her childhood and youth she therefore commuted between Argentina and Great Britain. Taylor-Joy was a model before she landed her first film roles. Her international breakthrough as an actress came with her role as Thomasin in the horror film The Witch (2015), directed by Robert Eggers.

Since then, she has appeared in the TV movie Viking Quest (2015), the TV series Atlantis (2015), and the motion picture Morgan (2016). M. Night Shyamalan signed Taylor-Joy to the 2016 psychological thriller Split, in which she starred opposite James McAvoy. She was also engaged for its sequel Glass, which was released in cinemas in 2019.

In 2020, Taylor-Joy appeared as the title heroine in the Jane Austen film Emma by director Autumn de Wilde, where she played the Minuet Trio in G major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the Irish folk song The Last Rose of Summer on the pianoforte in the film and sang.

She starred in the Netflix mini-series The Queen's Gambit, which earned her a Golden Globe Award and a Critics' Choice Television Award in 2021.

In 2022 she was appointed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which awards the annual Oscars.