---
name: "Anya Taylor-Joy"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/anya-taylor-joy"
fi1m_id: "anya-taylor-joy"
imdb_id: "nm5896355"
tmdb_id: 1397778
wikidata_id: "Q20882479"
roles: ["Actor","Producer"]
born: "16 April 1996"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 13
average_fi1m_score: 64
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 13
updated: "2026-10-23T04:05:49.996854+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Anya Taylor-Joy

## Identity

Anya Taylor-Joy

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/anya-taylor-joy
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** anya-taylor-joy
- **IMDb ID:** nm5896355
- **TMDB ID:** 1397778
- **Wikidata ID:** Q20882479
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anya_Taylor-Joy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20882479, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5896355/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1397778

Actor and producer. Born 16 April 1996 in Miami, Florida, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor, Producer
- **Born:** 16 April 1996, Miami, Florida, USA
- **Active:** 2013–present
- **Also known as:** Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy
- **Frequently works with:** [Aaron Horvath](https://film.one/person/aaron-horvath.md), [Charlie Day](https://film.one/person/charlie-day.md), [Chris Meledandri](https://film.one/person/chris-meledandri.md), [Chris Pratt](https://film.one/person/chris-pratt.md), [Jack Black](https://film.one/person/jack-black.md), [Keegan-Michael Key](https://film.one/person/keegan-michael-key.md), [Matthew Fogel](https://film.one/person/matthew-fogel.md), [Michael Jelenic](https://film.one/person/michael-jelenic.md)
- **Golden Globes:** 1 Golden Globe (1 won · 1 nominated)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 64, as actor, over 13 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 78 (3), 2020s 60 (10)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 64 to 62 across 13 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 7 at 60–79, 5 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 9 of 11 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Comedy 5, Drama 5, Adventure 4, Crime 3, Family 3, Mystery 3
- **Screen time:** 15 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $2,681m across 6 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anya_Taylor-Joy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20882479, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5896355/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1397778

## Coming up

- *Dune: Part Three* (2026-12-15), as Alia Atreides — [page](https://film.one/film/dune-part-three.md)
- *The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum* (2027-12-15), as Seren

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga*](https://film.one/film/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga.md) (72), [*The Gorge*](https://film.one/film/the-gorge.md) (70), [*Lucky*](https://film.one/tv/lucky.md) (57)
- **Netflix:** [*The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance*](https://film.one/tv/the-dark-crystal-age-of-resistance.md) (76), [*The Queen's Gambit*](https://film.one/tv/the-queens-gambit.md) (74)
- **Disney+:** [*The Menu*](https://film.one/film/the-menu.md) (72), [*Amsterdam*](https://film.one/film/amsterdam.md) (47)
- **Peacock:** [*The Super Mario Bros. Movie*](https://film.one/film/the-super-mario-bros-movie.md) (56), [*The Super Mario Galaxy Movie*](https://film.one/film/the-super-mario-galaxy-movie.md) (38)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Anya Taylor-Joy

> Anya Taylor-Joy's best work is done sitting still. She watches, waits and lets her opponent talk, and when a director gives her the time she is the reason to keep watching; when a film is in a hurry she is left with her costume.

Watch what Anya Taylor-Joy does when she loses. In *The Queen's Gambit* (2020) Beth Harmon is beaten, and her reaction is a hand going out to knock over her own king, nothing more. Most actors playing a genius on television reach for tics. She sits still, watches, and lets the man across the board talk himself out, and Scott Frank's camera gives her the time to do it. Some critics found her cold in the part. We thought cold was the part, and that she knew exactly when to let it slip, usually in a hotel room with a bottle. The moment we still think about is not a win. It is that hand.

She came up through small television parts and broke through in 2015 as Thomasin in Robert Eggers's *The Witch*. Horror followed, *Split* (2016) and *Glass* (2019) for M. Night Shyamalan, and then two leads in 2020, *Emma* and *The Queen's Gambit*, made her a name. Since then: *Last Night in Soho* (2021), *The Northman* (2022), *The Menu* (2022) and George Miller's *Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga* (2024). We have not reviewed the early films and will not judge them here. The pattern is plain: a wide, watchful face, cast again and again as someone the other characters take for harmless.

*Furiosa* shows what she can do and what a script can stop her doing. She does not arrive until well into the film and then barely speaks. She is fierce, and her scenes with Tom Burke's Praetorian Jack are played almost entirely in glances, which suits her. But we know where Furiosa ends up, so the film cannot make us fear for her, only show what it cost, and she is given less to play than the child was. Some reviewers took a while to accept her in a part built for a bigger frame. That was not the trouble; the trouble was a character whose ending had been written before she walked on. The same thing, smaller, happens to Princess Peach in the two *Super Mario* films (2023 and 2026): capable, dry, and given a costume, a sprint and nothing to watch.

*Lucky* (2026) is the useful case, because the series repeats itself and she does not. Playing a con artist with a new name in every town, she builds each identity out of habits rather than voices: how Lucky stands in a doorway, how long she lets a stranger look at her before she looks back. She never lets us see her choose until the choice is made. It is the same trick as the king going over, and it kept us watching seven episodes the scripts had not earned.

Cast her where the camera has time to wait. Frank did, and got six episodes out of it. Miller did, for the middle hour. Anyone who hands her a plot in a hurry will get the princess, and she will do it capably, and we will wait for the next director who lets her sit down.

## Biography

Anya Taylor-Joy is an actor. Born on 16 April 1996 in Miami, Florida, she was raised in Buenos Aires and London, and left school at 16 to pursue an acting career.

She first gained attention for leading roles in the horror films *The Witch* (2015) and *Split* (2017), and its sequel *Glass* (2019). Taylor-Joy appeared as Gina Gray in the series *Peaky Blinders* and as Beth Harmon in the miniseries *The Queen's Gambit* (2020), winning a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for the latter.

She voiced Princess Peach in *The Super Mario Bros. Movie* (2023) and *The Super Mario Galaxy Movie* (2026). Taylor-Joy starred as Furiosa in *Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga* (2024) and as Luciana 'Lucky' Armstrong in the series *Lucky* (2026).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (13)

- *Lucky* (2026), Fi1m 57, as Luciana 'Lucky' Armstrong — [page](https://film.one/tv/lucky.md)
- *Sacrifice* (2026), Fi1m 52, as Joan — [page](https://film.one/film/sacrifice.md)
- *The Super Mario Galaxy Movie* (2026), Fi1m 38, as Princess Peach (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-super-mario-galaxy-movie.md)
- *The Gorge* (2025), Fi1m 70, as Drasa — [page](https://film.one/film/the-gorge.md)
- *Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga* (2024), Fi1m 72, as Furiosa — [page](https://film.one/film/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga.md)
- *The Super Mario Bros. Movie* (2023), Fi1m 56, as Princess Peach (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-super-mario-bros-movie.md)
- *Amsterdam* (2022), Fi1m 47, as Libby Voze — [page](https://film.one/film/amsterdam.md)
- *The Menu* (2022), Fi1m 72, as Margot — [page](https://film.one/film/the-menu.md)
- *Last Night in Soho* (2021), Fi1m 64, as Sandie — [page](https://film.one/film/last-night-in-soho.md)
- *The Queen's Gambit* (2020), Fi1m 74, as Beth Harmon — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-queens-gambit.md)
- *The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance* (2019), Fi1m 76, as Brea (voice) — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-dark-crystal-age-of-resistance.md)
- *Endeavour* (2013), Fi1m 82, as Philippa Collins-Davidson — [page](https://film.one/tv/endeavour.md)
- *Peaky Blinders* (2013), Fi1m 77, as Gina Gray — [page](https://film.one/tv/peaky-blinders.md)

## Complete filmography (41)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum* (2027), as Seren
- *Dune: Part Three* (2026), as Alia Atreides — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/dune-part-three.md)
- *Lucky* (2026), series, as Luciana 'Lucky' Armstrong · Executive Producer — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/tv/lucky.md)
- *Sacrifice* (2026), as Joan · Executive Producer — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/sacrifice.md)
- *The Super Mario Galaxy Movie* (2026), as Princess Peach (voice) — Fi1m 38, [page](https://film.one/film/the-super-mario-galaxy-movie.md)
- *The Gorge* (2025), as Drasa — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/the-gorge.md)
- *Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga* (2024), as Furiosa — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga.md)
- *Dune: Part Two* (2024), as Alia Atreides (uncredited) — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/dune-part-two.md)
- *The Super Mario Bros. Movie* (2023), as Princess Peach (voice) — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/the-super-mario-bros-movie.md)
- *The Menu* (2022), as Margot — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-menu.md)
- *Amsterdam* (2022), as Libby Voze — Fi1m 47, [page](https://film.one/film/amsterdam.md)
- *The Northman* (2022), as Olga of the Birch Forest
- *Last Night in Soho* (2021), as Sandie, Songs — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/last-night-in-soho.md)
- *Here Are the Young Men* (2021), as Jen
- *Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas* (2020), as Cinderella
- *The Queen's Gambit* (2020), series, as Beth Harmon — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-queens-gambit.md)
- *The New Mutants* (2020), as Illyana Rasputin
- *Radioactive* (2020), as Irène Aged 18
- *Emma.* (2020), as Emma Woodhouse
- *The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance* (2019), series, as Brea (voice) — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-dark-crystal-age-of-resistance.md)
- *Playmobil: The Movie* (2019), as Marla
- *Glass* (2019), as Casey Cooke
- *Crossmaglen* (2018), as Ana
- *Thoroughbreds* (2018), as Lily
- *The Miniaturist* (2017), series, as Petronella Brandt
- *The Miniaturist* (2017), as Petronella 'Nella' Oortman
- *Marrowbone* (2017), as Allie
- *The Making of 'Split'* (2017), Assistant Dialogue Editor
- *Split* (2017), as Casey Cooke
- *Barry* (2016), as Charlotte Baughman
- *Morgan* (2016), as Morgan
- *The Witch* (2016), as Thomasin
- *Viking Quest* (2014), as Mani
- *Vampire Academy* (2014), as Feeder Girl
- *Atlantis* (2013), series, as Cassandra
- *Peaky Blinders* (2013), series, as Gina Gray — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/peaky-blinders.md)
- *Endeavour* (2013), series, as Philippa Collins-Davidson — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/endeavour.md)
- *Untitled Joni Mitchell Biopic*, as Joni Mitchell
- *How to Kill Your Family*, series, as Grace Bernard · Executive Producer
- *Dinner and Diatribes*, Actor
- *She comes for revenge*, as Melissa (voice)

## Gallery

- ![Anya Taylor-Joy](https://film.one/media/person/6902/gallery-52b3889cd0cb.jpg) Anya Taylor-Joy — Sara Komatsu, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Anya_Taylor-Joy_at_the_2025_Toronto_International_Film_Festival._07_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Anya_Taylor-Joy_at_the_2025_Toronto_International_Film_Festival._07_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
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- ![Anya Taylor-Joy at the Glastonbury Festival in 2025](https://film.one/media/person/6902/gallery-bbf3e1b2c492.jpg) Anya Taylor-Joy at the Glastonbury Festival in 2025 — Raph_PH, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Anya_Taylor-Joy_2025.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
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- ![Anya Taylor-Joy leaving the Furiosa press conference at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.](https://film.one/media/person/6902/gallery-202d3279dc9f.jpg) Anya Taylor-Joy leaving the Furiosa press conference at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. — Frank Sun, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Anya_Taylor-Joy_at_the_2024_Cannes_Film_Festival.jpg/1280px-Anya_Taylor-Joy_at_the_2024_Cannes_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Anya Taylor-Joy leaving the Furiosa press conference at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.](https://film.one/media/person/6902/gallery-c7937e389a7d.jpg) Anya Taylor-Joy leaving the Furiosa press conference at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. — Frank Sun, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Anya_Taylor-Joy_at_the_2024_Cannes_Film_Festival_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Anya_Taylor-Joy_at_the_2024_Cannes_Film_Festival_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
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- ![Anya Taylor-Joy](https://film.one/media/person/6902/gallery-d73648556707.jpg) Anya Taylor-Joy — Image via TMDB
- ![Anya Taylor-Joy](https://film.one/media/person/6902/gallery-b56179d180b2.jpg) Anya Taylor-Joy — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Golden Globes — 1 won, 1 nominated

- 2023: Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (nominated), for *The Menu*
- 2021: Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film (won), for *The Queen's Gambit*

### SAG Awards — 1 won

- 2021: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie (won), for *The Queen's Gambit*

### Other awards — 2 won

- Critics' Choice Awards 2021: Best Movie/Miniseries Actress (won), for *The Queen's Gambit*
- Trophée Chopard 2015: Trophée Chopard (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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