Anya Taylor-Joy

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

2014: The Young Inspector Morse ( Endeavor , TV series, episode 2x02)
2014: The Viking ( Viking Quest , TV movie)
2015: The Witch
2015: Atlantis (TV series, 5 episodes)
2016: The Morgan Project (Morgan)
2016: Barry
2016: Split
2017: thoroughbreds (thoroughbreds)
2017: Marrowbone
2017: The Miniaturist (miniseries, 2 episodes)
2019: Glass
2019: Playmobil: The Movie (Playmobil: The Movie)
2019: Marie Curie - Elements of Life (Radioactive)
2019: Peaky Blinders - Gangs of Birmingham ( Peaky Blinders , TV series, 6 episodes)
since 2019: The Dark Crystal: era of resistance ( The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance , TV series)
2020: Emma
2020: Here Are the Young Men
2020: The New Mutants