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She is best known for her roles as Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit (2020), Thomasin in the period horror film The Witch (2015), as Casey Cooke in the horror-thriller Split (2016), and as Lily in the black comedy thriller Thoroughbreds (2017).
- January 1, 1
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- Miami, Florida, USA
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- 15 'Marrowbone'
- 14 'The Super Mario Bros. Movie'
- 13 'Radioactive'
- 12 'Last Night in Soho'
- 11 'Split'
- 10 'Barry'
- 9 'Emma'
- 8 'Thoroughbreds'
- 7 'The Menu'
- 6 'The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance'
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 49%
Director Sergio G. Sánchez's psychological horror film follows four children – Jack, Jane, Billy, and Sam – who move into an old, isolated house. When their mother passes, a strange presence starts to haunt them. The tension escalates when a local girl, Allie, played by Anya Taylor-Joy, gets involved with the family, further complicating the situation. Atmosphere seeps from Marrowbone, and with the mansion itself feeling like a character, creaking floors and shadowy corners only add to the se...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 59%
The Super Mario Bros. Movie brings the iconic video game characters fans know and love to life in a very colorful and animated adventure. In this, brothers Mario (Chris Pratt) and Luigi (Charlie Day) accidentally find themselves in a magical world where one of them is captured by none other than Bowser (Jack Black). Mario teams up with Princess Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy) to come to the rescue. The two move on to race and battle against more recognizable characters in the game, including one on R...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 62%
Featuring Rosamund Pike in the starring role, Radioactive documents the significant achievement that defined Marie Curie as a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and chemist whose discovery of radioactivity changed the world. Focusing on Curie’s perseverance in an oppressive world following the death of her husband, it boasts some interesting ideas concerning both the good and the evil of what Curie’s discovery could yield. It is admirably grounded by a typically dazzling performance from Pike, tho...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 75%
From director Edgar Wright, Last Night in Soho is a psychological horror about Eloise Turner (Thomasin McKenzie), a young woman enrolled in fashion school with abilities to connect to the unseen. She begins having dreams and visions of the enigmatic '60s woman, Sandie (Taylor-Joy), whose aspiration of becoming a singer splinter into something much darker and dangerous that begins following Eloise in her real life. This dizzying tale of nostalgic glitz and glamour contrasted with horrifying re...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 78%
From director M. Night Shyamalan, 2016's psychological thriller Split functions as a rather sneaky successor to the filmmaker's 2000 movie, Unbreakable. Starring James McAvoy as a man with an exaggerated and fictionalized version of Dissociative Identity Disorder, it tracks the progression of his multiple personalities and how they interact with Casey Cooke (Taylor-Joy), a young girl who is kidnapped. All the while, the emergence of a new 24th personality, the Beast, is prepared for. Playing...
Rotten Tomatoes: 80%
An interesting film given its political context and insight into one of the most significant figures in American history, Barry offers a dramatized depiction of Barack Obama’s (Devon Terrell) college years. Going by the name Barry, it focuses on the issues of identity Obama faced as a young man studying at Columbia University, highlighting the social topics he took an interest in and the educational journey he embarked upon and the impact it had on his family. Taylor-Joy plays the integral ro...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 86%
Adapted from Jane Austen's novel of the same name, Emma stars Anya Taylor-Joy as the affluent and elegant Emma Woodhouse who entertains herself by playing matchmaker with those around her. The film follows her as she befriends Harriet (Mia Goth), tries to set her up with mixed results, and ultimately is forced to confront her own feelings when she realizes the love she has been looking for has been in front of her all along. The Regency-era period romantic comedy presented Taylor-Joy with the...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 87%
In this mid-budget black comedy thriller, upper-class high schooler Lily (Anya Taylor-Joy) is paid to hang out with her former childhood best friend Amanda (The House of the Dragon's Olivia Cooke), who cannot experience emotions. With Lily's stepfather constantly antagonizing her, they hatch a plan to get rid of him at any cost. Thoroughbreds was received well by critics who praised the writing of its nuanced and complex main female characters. Cooke and Taylor-Joy's lead chemistry becomes th...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 88%
In The Menu Anya Taylor-Joy plays Margot, a young woman accompanying her date Tyler (Nicholas Hoult) to a high-end restaurant on a private island where they will enjoy a decadent dining experience courtesy of Chef Slowik (Ralph Fiennes). However, what is initially meant to be a lavish night of fine dining takes a dark turn for the guests when Slowik reveals that each course will feature its own skewering, and sometimes even deadly, social message. This dark comedy horror film featured an ense...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 89%
From Netflix and The Jim Henson Company comes The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, an epic fantasy television series made as a prequel to the 1982 film The Dark Crystal. Set on the planet of Thra, it tells the story of three Gelflings – Rian, Brea, and Deet – as they uncover a secret about their rulers that puts their entire planet at risk. Anya Taylor-Joy voices Brea, the princess of one of the tribes on the planet of Thra. Like all other characters, Taylor-Joy's Brea is brought to life by i...
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.
Apr 16, 1996 · Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy (born 16 April 1996) is a British-American actress and model. She left school at age sixteen and began to pursue an acting career. After small television roles, she made her film debut with the lead role of Thomasin in the horror film The Witch (2015).
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