All of a sudden I was in a big city and didn't speak the language. She recalled:Īrgentina is all green and I had horses and animals everywhere. She left school at age sixteen, citing bullying from her fellow pupils as the reason. She was educated at Hill House and attended Queen's Gate School, acting in school productions. Taylor-Joy experienced the move as "traumatic" and refused to learn English in hopes of moving back to Argentina. She is fluent in both Spanish and English and holds dual British and American citizenship. Taylor-Joy lived with her family in Buenos Aires and attended Northlands School until age six, when the family relocated to the Victoria area of London. She is the youngest of six siblings, four from her father's previous marriage. Her mother was born in Zambia, to an English diplomat father, David Joy, and a Spanish mother from Barcelona. Her father is an Argentine of English and Scottish descent, son of a British father and an Argentine-British mother.
She has said her birth in Miami was a "fluke", since her parents had simply been holidaying in the city at the time however, because of her birthplace she holds American citizenship due to the country's jus soli nationality law.
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Taylor-Joy 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 Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Movie/Miniseries, the Golden Globe for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie and received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. Taylor-Joy will voice Princess Peach in the upcoming Mario film (2022) and portray the title character in Furiosa (2024). She also appeared in the drama miniseries The Miniaturist (2017), the fifth series of Peaky Blinders and The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (both 2019), and the superhero film Glass (2019), reprising her role from Split. 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 and won the Trophée Chopard from the Cannes Film Festival. 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. īorn in Miami and raised in Buenos Aires and London, Taylor-Joy left school at age sixteen and began to pursue an acting career. In 2021, Time magazine placed her on the Time 100 Next list. She has received several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, a SAG Award, and a Critics' Choice Television Award, and nominations at the BAFTA Film Awards and the Primetime Emmy Awards.
Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy ( / ˈ æ n j ə/ ANN-yə born 16 April 1996) is an actress, model and singer.
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