Anya Taylor-Joy

About Anya Taylor-Joy

Anya Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy (born 16 April 1996) is an American-born Argentine-British actress and model. She has received several accolades, including a Critics' Choice Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2021, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Taylor-Joy dropped out of school at age 14. A few years later she began to pursue a career in modeling and acting. After small television roles, she made her film debut with the lead role of Thomasin in the horror film The Witch (2015), which won her a Gotham Award and an Empire Award. She went on to star in the horror film Split and the black comedy Thoroughbreds (both 2017); that same year, she earned a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination.

Taylor-Joy also appeared in the drama miniseries The Miniaturist (2017), the TV series Peaky Blinders and The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (both 2019), and the superhero film Glass (2019). She received praise for portraying the lead characters Emma Woodhouse in the Jane Austen adaptation Emma and Beth Harmon in the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit (both 2020); for the latter, she won the Golden Globe for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film and the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie. A sequel to Queen's Gambit is being planned. In 2022, she starred in The Northman, Amsterdam and The Menu and voiced Princess Peach in the animated film The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023).

Along with Taylor-Joy's ever-growing popularity, her breasts too have grabbed attention. She has developed a reputation on the internet for her bouncy breasts, consistently seen in many of her appearances.

As of March 2024, she has amassed 10.4 million followers on her Instagram platform.