Anya Taylor-Joy

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Anya Taylor-Joy (2018)

Anya Taylor-Joy (born April 16, 1996 in Miami , Florida ) is an Argentine - British actress .

Life

Taylor-Joy is the youngest of six children. Her mother is Spanish-British and her father is Scottish-Argentine. In her childhood and youth, she therefore commuted between Argentina and Great Britain. Before Taylor-Joy played her first film roles, she worked as a model. Her international breakthrough as an actress came in 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 feature film The Morgan Project (2016). M. Night Shyamalan engaged Taylor-Joy in 2016 for the psychological thriller Split , in which she played a leading role alongside James McAvoy . She was also hired for its sequel Glass , which was released in 2019.

In 2020 Taylor-Joy appeared as the heroine in the Jane Austen film adaptation of Emma by the director Autumn de Wilde .

Filmography

Awards (selection)

British Academy Film Award

  • 2017 : Nomination for the Rising Star Award

Gotham Award

  • 2016: Award for Best Young Actress (for The Witch )

London Critics' Circle Film Award

Web links

Commons : Anya Taylor-Joy  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Servant, Andrea: She doesn't need to please us. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 4, 2020, p. 9.
  2. Jack Shepherd: Baftas 2017: Tom Holland, Ruth Negga, and Anya Taylor-Joy amongst nominees for Rising Star award In: independent.co.uk, January 5, 2017.
  3. Nancy Tartaglione: 'Moonlight', 'Love & Friendship' Lead London Critics' Circle Nominations In: deadline.com, December 20, 2016.