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Anya Taylor-Joy
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Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy (/ˈænjə/; born 16 April 1996) is an actress. Born in Miami and raised in Buenos Aires and London, she left school at the age of 16 to pursue an acting career. After a series of small television roles, her breakthrough came with a leading role in the horror film The Witch (2015). She continued with roles in the horror film Split (2016) and its sequel Glass (2019), the black comedy film Thoroughbreds (2017), and the television crime drama series Peaky Blinders (2019–2022). For playing Emma Woodhouse in the period drama Emma (2020), Taylor-Joy received her first Golden Globe Award nomination. She earned international recognition for playing Beth Harmon in the Netflix period drama miniseries The Queen's Gambit (2020), winning a Golden Globe and SAG Award and being nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. She then appeared in the horror film Last Night in Soho (2021), the action film The Northman (2022), and the black comedy film The Menu (2022). She also voiced Princess Peach in the animated film The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) and starred as Imperator Furiosa in the apocalyptic film Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Anya Taylor-Joy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy (/ˈænjə/; born 16 April 1996) is an actress. Born in Miami and raised in Buenos Aires and London, she left school at the age of 16 to pursue an acting career. After a series of small television roles, her breakthrough came with a leading role in the horror film The Witch (2015). She continued with roles in the horror film Split (2016) and its sequel Glass (2019), the black comedy film Thoroughbreds (2017), and the television crime drama series Peaky Blinders (2019–2022). For playing Emma Woodhouse in the period drama Emma (2020), Taylor-Joy received her first Golden Globe Award nomination. She earned international recognition for playing Beth Harmon in the Netflix period drama miniseries The Queen's Gambit (2020), winning a Golden Globe and SAG Award and being nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. She then appeared in the horror film Last Night in Soho (2021), the action film The Northman (2022), and the black comedy film The Menu (2022). She also voiced Princess Peach in the animated film The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) and starred as Imperator Furiosa in the apocalyptic film Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Anya Taylor-Joy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Saturday Night Live
The Oscars
The Graham Norton Show
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Honest Trailers
Golden Globe Awards
Atlantis
Dune: Part Two
Peaky Blinders
Radioactive
Amsterdam
The Northman
Glass
The New Mutants
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Marrowbone
Here Are the Young Men
Scream VI
Last Night in Soho
Dune: Part Three
Thoroughbreds
Barry
Split
Emma.
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
The Queen's Gambit
The Witch
Playmobil: The Movie
The Menu
The Gorge
Creating The Queen's Gambit
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
How to Kill Your Family
The Miniaturist
Lucky
Production Credits
Last Night in Soho
How to Kill Your Family
Lucky
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