Anya Taylor-Joy

Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy (/ˈænjə/ ANN-yə;[1] born 16 April 1996) is an actress who has won several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2021, she was featured on Time magazine’s 100 Next list of "emerging leaders who are shaping the future".

Born in Miami and raised in Buenos Aires and London, Taylor-Joy left school at the age of 16 to pursue an acting career. After small television roles, she made her film debut with a leading role in the horror film The Witch (2015), before starring in the horror film Split (2016) and its sequel, Glass (2019), and the black comedy Thoroughbreds (2017). She won the Trophée Chopard at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.

Taylor-Joy has since appeared in the fifth and sixth series of the television series Peaky Blinders (2019–2022), and played Emma Woodhouse in the period drama Emma. (2020), which gained her a Golden Globe nomination. The same year, she received critical acclaim for her performance starring as Beth Harmon in the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit (2020), winning several awards, including a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award. Taylor-Joy also portrayed Illyana Rasputin/Magik, a Russian mutant and sorceress, in the superhero horror film The New Mutants. It was originally intended for release in April 2018 but experienced several delays; it was released in 2020.

In September 2021, she was announced to have been cast as the voice of Princess Peach in Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic's The Super Mario Bros. Movie, set to be released on 7 April 2023.