Anya Taylor-Joy wallpapers & Biography
Anya-Josephine Mary Taylor-Joy 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 number of minor television roles, her breakthrough came with a leading role in the horror film The Witch (2015). Her career progressed with roles in the horror film Split (2016) and its sequel Glass (2019), the black comedy film Thoroughbreds (2017) and the role of Emma Woodhouse in the period drama Emma (2020).
Taylor-Joy starred in the television crime drama series Peaky Blinders (2019–2022), and gained international recognition for playing Beth Harmon in the period drama miniseries The Queen's Gambit (2020), winning a Golden Globe Award and a SAG Award, in addition to a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award. She then starred in the horror film Last Night in Soho (2021), the action films The Northman (2022) and The Gorge (2025), and the black comedy The Menu (2022). She 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)
Early life
Taylor-Joy was born on 16 April 1996 in Miami, Florida, to Dennis Alan Taylor,a former banker, and Jennifer Marina Joy, a psychologist. Her father is Argentine of English and Scottish descent, the son of a British father and an Anglo-Argentine mother.Her mother was born in Zambia to an English diplomat father, David Joy, and a Spanish mother from Barcelona She has said that her birth in Miami was a "coincidence", as her parents were holidaying in the city at the time; because of her birthplace, she holds American citizenship due to the country's jus soli nationality law.She is the youngest of six siblings.
Taylor-Joy lived with her family in Buenos Aires and attended Northlands School until the age of six, when the family relocated to the Victoria area of London. She is fluent in both Spanish and English. Taylor-Joy experienced the move as "traumatic" and initially refused to learn English in the hope of moving back to Argentina. She attended Hill House International Junior School and Queen's Gate School , acting in school productions. She struggled socially at school,.
Taylor-Joy initially trained in dance and studied ballet until she was 15. At the age of 17, she was scouted as a model by Storm Management founder Sarah Doukas while she was walking her dog outside Harrods department store in Knightsbridge, London. She signed with the agency on the condition that acting remained her first passion and goal. During a modelling shoot to promote the television series Downton Abbey, which she nearly declined as she was preparing for her GCSE exams, Taylor-Joy was spotted by Downton Abbey actor Allen Leech while working out for the crew and reciting Seamus Heaney's poem "Digging" for an upcoming screentest.
Personal life
Taylor-Joy began a relationship with American musician Malcolm McRae, frontman of the rock band More, in 2021. They married in a private ceremony in New Orleans on April 1, 2022. They held a second ceremony at Palazzo Pisani Moretta in Venice, Italy, in September 2023.
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