Some stunning photos of Anya Taylor-Joy
Anya Taylor-Joy was born on April 16, 1996 in Miami. Coming from an Anglo-Hispanic family, she lived for a time in the USA then in Argentina and London, allowing her to be perfectly bilingual.
Trained in ballet and dance, she nevertheless turned to an acting career and started with a small role in Vampire Academy in 2014. If her participation was not credited, she stood out the following year by becoming the heroine of the horror film The Witch. Screened at the Sundance Film Festival, this film was a huge critical success.
Thanks to the role of Thomasin, the girl is nominated for several awards for best young actress and sees her career take off. A few months later, she starred in two films: Morgan, directed by Ridley Scott's son, and Barry, a short biopic on Barack Obama's youth.
In 2017, the young girl returns to the front of the stage with Split by M. Night Shyamalan. She plays there one of the three young teenagers kidnapped by Barry, a man with multiple personalities played by James McAvoy. Anya doesn't seem ready to stop there. Become one of the revelations of the year, she is approached to play Magik in the future adaptation of the comic book New Mutants.
