Age: 30
female
Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy (/ˈænjə/; born 16 April 1996) is an American actress and voice actress. Born in Miami and raised in Buenos Aires and London, she left school at 16 to pursue an acting career. After several minor television roles, her breakthrough came with a leading role in the horror film The Witch (2015). Her career progressed with roles in the horror film Split (2016) and its sequel Glass (2019), the black comedy film Thoroughbreds (2017), and playing Emma Woodhouse in the period drama Emma (2020). Taylor-Joy featured in the television crime drama series Peaky Blinders (2019–2022) and earned international recognition for playing Beth Harmon in the period drama miniseries The Queen's Gambit (2020), winning a Golden Globe Award and a SAG Award, in addition to a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award. She then starred in the horror film Last Night in Soho (2021), the action films The Northman (2022) and The Gorge (2025), and the black comedy The Menu (2022). She also voiced Princess Peach in the animated film The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023). She starred as Imperator Furiosa in the apocalyptic film Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Anya Taylor-Joy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
In a world where time itself is geography, a teenage girl named Candy Quackenbush discovers a doorway to the Abarat—a vast archipelago of twenty-five islands, each frozen in a different hour of the day. Pulled from her mundane life in Minnesota, Candy finds herself caught between wonder and danger as she explores islands of perpetual midnight, golden noon, and everything between. Hunted by the sinister Boa, a shape-shifting creature serving dark forces, Candy must navigate this dreamlike realm and uncover her own mysterious connection to the Abarat's fate. Alongside eccentric allies—a philosophical sea captain, a shape-shifting friend, and magical inhabitants—she discovers that her arrival is no accident. As shadows from the Abarat's darkest hours threaten to consume all the islands, Candy must embrace her hidden power to prevent catastrophe and find her true place in this extraordinary world.
