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.
Emma Woodhouse is a clever, wealthy, and meddlesome young woman living in the English countryside who fancies herself an expert matchmaker. Convinced of her own superiority and immune to romantic entanglement herself, Emma meddles in the lives of those around her—particularly her timid friend Harriet Smith, whom she schemes to pair with the local vicar. Her well-intentioned interference spirals into comic chaos as misunderstandings multiply and hidden feelings surface. When the charming, mysterious Mr. Frank Churchill arrives in town, Emma's certainty wavers. Through a series of revelations and romantic missteps, Emma must confront her own blindness to love, her capacity for cruelty, and the possibility that true connection lies closer than she ever imagined. A witty exploration of self-deception, social ambition, and the transformative power of genuine affection.
