Anya Taylor-Joy

Biography

Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy is an actress. Born in Miami, she grew up in Buenos Aires and London. She began pursuing an acting career at the age of 16. After a series of small television roles, her breakthrough came with a leading role in the horror film The Witch (2015). She had 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). Taylor-Joy also played Emma Woodhouse in the period drama Emma (2020).