Anya Taylor-Joy

Taylor-Joy was born in Miami, Florida, the youngest of six children.[5] Her mother worked in photography and interior design and is English of South African and Spanish descent; her father, a former international banker, is Scottish Argentine.[6][7] Taylor-Joy moved to Buenos Aires as an infant and spoke only Spanish before moving to London at age six. She attended the preparatory school Hill House in Kensington, then Northlands School in Argentina and Queen's Gate School in London.[8] She has trained in ballet dancing.[5][9]

At the age of 16, she was scouted as a model while walking outside Harrods Department Store by Sarah Doukas of Storm Management. It was through her work as a model that she met and signed with an acting agent.[10]

Taylor-Joy rose to prominence with the role of Thomasin in Robert Eggers' period horror film The Witch. The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2015, and had a wide release in 2016. She had declined a simultaneous offer of a part in a Disney Channel show.[11]

In 2016, Taylor-Joy starred in the sci-fi–horror film, Morgan, directed by Luke Scott.[12] The film was released on 2 September 2016.[13] She played one of Barack Obama's close friends in Vikram Gandhi's film Barry, which focused on a young Barack Obama in 1981 New York City.[14]

Taylor-Joy's likeness was used for the character Valkyrie Cain on the 10th anniversary cover of Skulduggery Pleasant, the first book in the series of the same name. In 2017, she headlined the horror–thriller film Split, written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, she was seen playing Casey Cooke, a girl abducted by a mysterious man with multiple personalities.[15] In 2019, she reprised her role as Casey in the film Glass, the last installment in the Unbreakable film series.[16]

Taylor-Joy was the lead actress in the music video for Skrillex's remix of GTA's song Red Lips.[17] She was nominated for the 2017 BAFTA Rising Star Award.[18]

Taylor-Joy also starred as Emma Woodhouse in comedy-drama film Emma., a film adaption of the 1815 novel of the same name, directed by Autumn de Wilde and written by Eleanor Catton, which was released on 14 February 2020.

Taylor-Joy will appear in the film Last Night in Soho, directed by Edgar Wright. Principal production began on 20 May 2019.[19][20] She is attached to star in Nosferatu, a remake of the film of the same name, to be directed by Eggers in her second collaboration with him.[21] She will also star in The Sea Change,[22] as well as in the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit.[23]

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