Anya Taylor-Joy

Age: 30

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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.

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Anya Taylor-Joy

Shadowheart

for Shadowheart in Baldur's Gate

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Baldur's Gate

Tav finds himself taken captive by mind flayers who have launched an invasion of Faerûn in their spelljamming ship. They have implanted Tav with illithid tadpole, parasites capable of enthralling and transforming them into other mind flayers; however, before transformation is complete, the ship comes under attack from githyanki warriors and their red dragons. Protagonist is freed during the fighting but ship crashes. Journey to Baldur's Gate begins while faith of all Faerûn hangs on a thread (This is a tv series; so no A-listers, lets focus more on lesser known actors with emphasis on original va where possible)

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