Anya Taylor-Joy

Accused of being a sorceress in her first film as a protagonist, “The Witch”, she has seduced moviegoers with her acting magic at the age of 20. It doesn’t take a crystal ball to herald that Anya Taylor-Joy is headed for the pinnacle of stardom.

Born on April 16, 1996 in Miami (Florida), the cosmopolitan Anya Taylor-Joy has diverse ancestry in her family, which has undoubtedly contributed to her acting versatility. She was the youngest of the six children of a marriage formed by an Argentine-Scottish and a Spanish-English woman like the one in Cervantes’s exemplary novel. The girl lived in Argentina until she was six years old, when the family moved to the United Kingdom.

Already installed in Europe, she tried her luck in the field of ballet, and later made her first steps as a model. During a photo shoot for Vogue magazine, she met Allen Leech , who played chauffeur Tom Branson in Downton Abbey . He realized that he was worth acting and introduced him to his agent. She began to appear at castings in 2014, when despite her lack of specific training, she made a good impression among those responsible for Maleficent , who were about to choose her to play Princess Aurora, alias Sleeping Beauty, although in the end they opted for the best known Elle Fanning .

That same year she was signed for small jobs in Vampire Academy and Endeavour , which at least served as a calling card for her to land the role of Thomasin, the daughter of puritanical farmers harassed by a fearsome sorceress, in The Witch , director Robert Eggers ‘ debut.. He bet heavily on the interpreter after being overwhelmed with her potential, when he organized an audition in London. “The first actress I saw was Anya, and I thought it was too good to be true,” recalls the director. “So I did other auditions but each time it was clear that she was the only person who could play the part. During the shooting, he always tried to understand Thomasin as well as possible. Also, she has a great facility for languages, and that’s pretty impressive.”

Although judging by the results, Anya Taylor-Joy gave her all, in reality the filming was difficult for her, since until then she had reservations about horror movies. I saw The Blair Witch Project.and I didn’t sleep in three weeks,” he explains. “I thought that experience would be the end of my experience with the genre for the rest of my life.” Luckily she felt very supported during filming. “We had to feel that we were a real family and we loved each other. The theme is very dark and we would have gone crazy if we hadn’t had fun in the breaks. We needed moments of relief”. The balance was positive. “I thought that if I had been able to with a film like this, nothing would resist me in the future”, she explains. Aside from getting good reviews, the girl earned a few nominations at critics association awards and the Gotham Award for Breakthrough Actress.

As expected, his career was revalued after this work, for which he got a role in the series Atlantis , gave life to the bionic woman referred to in the title of Morgan , debut of Luke Scott , son of Ridley Scott , who worked as a producer executive, she was a friend and girlfriend of Barack Obama, in Barry , reconstruction of the youth of the later US president, and was required again for terror, this time by one of the masters in this field, M. Night Shyamalan , in Multiple. When he contacted his agent, he was not impressed by his prestige, well… he insisted on reading the script! “They advised me to accept unconditionally, but even so, I repeatedly asked that they send it to me.” When he got it he decided to accept the contract. “The story left me speechless, it took me several days to stop thinking about it.” The director is full of praise for his work. “ His spontaneity is amazing. I was lucky that he accepted the role , ”explains the author of The Sixth Sense . He plays a young woman kidnapped by a psychopath with multiple personalities.

Its takeoff has only just begun. Anya Taylor-Joy has been placed under the command of a Spaniard, Sergio G. Sánchez , in Marrowbone , which marks the debut as a feature filmmaker for Juan Antonio Bayona ‘s regular screenwriter . She has also shot the thriller Thoroughbred , together with Anton Yelchin , together before this actor’s death in an accident. In it, she plays a girl who, after reuniting with a friend from the suburbs of Connecticut, finds herself implicated in a murder. At the time of writing this text, she has not yet had time to make a name for herself in gossip magazines. She will see