Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy is an American-born English actress and voice actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award. She won the Trophée Chopard at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. In 2021, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Born in Miami, Florida and raised in Buenos Aires and London, Taylor-Joy left school at age 16 and began to pursue an acting career. After minor television roles, she made her film debut with a lead role as Thomas in the horror film The Witch (2015). She went on to star in another horror film Unbreakable (2000) and its sequels: Split (2016) and Glass (2019) as Casey Cooke, as well as the black comedy thriller film Thoroughbreds (2017) as Lily Reynolds. She also starred as Beth Harmon in the 2020 Netflix original series The Queen's Gambit and voiced Princess Peach in The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023).
For Disney, she portrayed Ilyana Rasputin/Magik in the 2020 Fox film The New Mutants, Libby Voze in Amsterdam, and Margot in the 2022 Searchlight Pictures film The Menu.
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