Anya Taylor-Joy biography, Career, Family, Networth, Marriage

Who is Anya Taylor-Joy?

Anya Taylor-Joy is an American-Argentine-British actress and model. The recipient of various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a SAG Award, she was listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2019 and was named by Time magazine as one of the “emerging leaders

who are shaping the future”, in 2021.

Born in Miami and raised in Buenos Aires and London, Taylor-Joy began acting in school productions and eventually dropped out to pursue acting. After small television roles, she made her film debut with the lead role in the 2015 horror film The Witch. She received further attention for her roles in the horror film Split and the black comedy Thoroughbreds, both released in 2017; she earned a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination. This was followed with starring roles in two BBC One drama miniseries The Miniaturist (2017) and Peaky Blinders (2019) and in the Netflix fantasy drama series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019) and Split’s sequel Glass (2019).

Taylor-Joy gained wider recognition in 2020 as the lead characters Emma Woodhouse in the Jane Austen adaptation Emma and Beth Harmon in the Netflix miniseries The Queen’s Gambit; for the latter, she won the Golden Globe for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie.

Anya Taylor-Joy’s Career

Acting career

Early roles and breakthrough

Taylor-Joy was removed from the final cut of her first acting role in the 2014 horror-comedy Vampire Academy, with her role left uncredited. She made her television debut as Philippa Collins-Davidson in an episode of the detective drama series Endeavour and followed this with a multi-episode arc in the 2015 fantasy-adventure drama series Atlantis. Her breakthrough came the same year with her leading role in her feature film debut The Witch, a period horror film directed by Robert Eggers. The Witch tells the story of a Puritan family who encounters forces of evil in the woods beyond their New England farm.

The film premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim and Taylor-Joy’s performance as Thomasin was considered a revelation. Anthony Lane of The New Yorker wrote “Taylor-Joy is 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.” The film was a commercial success, grossing $40.4 million against its $4 million budget. She won the Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Actor and the Empire Award for Best Female Newcomer.

Critical acclaim and awards success

Taylor-Joy starred in three dark films released in 2017. The first of these was opposite James McAvoy in M. Night Shyamalan’s Split. The film has her playing Casey Cooke, a young girl abducted by a mysterious man with multiple personalities (McAvoy). The film was a commercial success, grossing $278.5 million on a budget of $9 million, and Katie Walsh of the Chicago Tribune was particularly impressed with Taylor-Joy’s and McAvoy’s “exceptional” performances. Her most critically acclaimed film that year was Cory Finley’s directorial debut Thoroughbreds.

She was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award and was awarded the prestigious Trophée Chopard at the Cannes Film Festival, which is given by a jury of professionals to young actors in order to recognise their accomplishments. That December, Taylor-Joy portrayed Petronella Oortman in the BBC One period drama miniseries The Miniaturist, based on Jessie Burton’s novel of the same name. Jack Shepherd of The Independent thought that Taylor-Joy’s casting heightened the series and praised the “excellent” and “masterfully” controlled performance.

Upcoming projects

Taylor-Joy will next appear in the drama film Here Are the Young Men, directed by Eoin Macken and based on the novel of the same name by Rob Doyle, which will be released in April 2021. She will then star in Edgar Wright’s psychological horror film Last Night in Soho, which is scheduled for release in October 2021. She will also re-team with filmmaker Robert Eggers for a starring role in the historical revenge film The Northman, which has been described as “a Viking revenge saga set in Iceland at the turn of the 10th century.”

Later in October 2020, it was announced that Taylor-Joy had been cast as the titular character in the Mad Max: Fury Road prequel Furiosa. In December 2020, Scott Frank, the writer-director of The Queen’s Gambit, announced that he hoped to film an adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Laughter in the Dark with Taylor-Joy. In January 2021, she was cast in David O. Russell’s yet-untitled film, which will also star Robert De Niro, Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, and Mike Myers. Since 2017, Taylor-Joy has been attached to star in Robert Eggers’ remake of F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu. That same year, she was also cast in the drama film The Sea Change.

How Old is Anya Taylor-Joy?

Tylor-Joy was born on 16 April 1996 in Miami, Florida, U.S. She is currently 25 years old.

Anya Taylor-Joy‘s Family

Who are Anya Taylor-Joy’s parents?

Tylor-Joy’s parents are Dennis Alan Taylor, a former international banker turned two-time Union Internationale Motonautique world champion powerboat racer (who was awarded an MBE in the 1982 New Year Honours (for services to the British community in Buenos Aires) and an OBE in 1998 (for services to British trade with Argentina) and Jennifer Marina Joy, a psychologist. Her father, who also was the director of a private jet hire company, is an Argentine of Argentinian and Scottish ancestry and her mother is a Zambian of Spanish and English ancestry.

Does Anya Taylor-Joy have siblings?

Tylor-Joy is the youngest of six siblings.

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Anya Taylor-Joy‘s Education

Tylor-Joy attended Northlands School until age six when the family relocated to the Victoria area of London. She is fluent in both Spanish and English and holds triple British, American, and Argentine citizenship. Taylor-Joy experienced the move as “traumatic” and refused to learn English in hopes of moving back to Argentina. She was educated at Hill House and attended Queen’s Gate School, acting in school productions. She dropped out of school at the age of 14, citing bullying from her classmates as the reason.

Anya Taylor-Joy‘s Relationship

Taylor–Joy was romantically linked to photographer Ben Seed. it was also earlier reported Anya Taylor, and her co-star Eoin Macken from Crossmaglen (2018) are dating.