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Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy (; born 16 April 1996) is an actress. Born in , she grew up in and . She began pursuing an acting career at the age of 16. After a series of small television roles, her came with a leading role in the horror film (2015). She had roles in the horror film (2016) and its sequel (2019), the black comedy film (2017), and the television crime drama series (2019–2022). Taylor-Joy also played in the period drama (2020).
Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy was born 16 April 1996 in , to Dennis Alan Taylor, a former banker and offshore powerboat racer who won two (UIM) world offshore championships in the 1980s, and Jennifer Marina Joy, a psychologist. Her father is an of English and Scottish descent, the son of a British father and an mother. Her mother was born in to an English diplomat father, David Joy, and a Spanish mother from , Montserrat Morancho. Taylor-Joy says that her birth in Miami was a “fluke”, since her parents had been vacationing in the city at the time. Because of her birthplace, she holds American citizenship due to U.S. . She is the youngest of six siblings, four of whom are from her father’s previous marriage.
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Anya Taylor-Joy (left) as “Emma Woodhouse” and Johnny Flynn (right) as “‘George Knightley” in director Autumn de Wilde’s EMMA, a Focus Features release. Credit : Focus Features
Anya Taylor-Joy stars as “Emma Woodhouse” in director Autumn de Wilde’s EMMA, a Focus Features release. Credit : Focus Features
