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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.
I Am Vengeance is a 2025 American gothic action thriller film written and directed by Adam Wingard and produced by Zack Snyder and Robert Eggers. It is heavily influenced by Norse Mythology. The film stars Emma Watson and Everleigh McDonell alongside Ethan Hawke, Sam Neill, Willem Dafoe, Djimon Hounsou, Anya Taylor-Joy, Michael Caine, and Cate Blanchett. Its story follows a widowed hunter who raises her young daughter in the Icelandic snow forests. When she discovers that she is the child of a goddess, and her daughter gets kidnapped by her own half-brother, she goes on a rampage to get her back while also studying who she really was. I Am Vengeance opened in theaters on January 16th, 2025; it was a financial success, grossing $1.45 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing release of 2025. The film received universal and critical acclaim, with praise for Watson and McDonell's performances, screenplay, direction, story, visual effects, emotional weight, action sequences, themes, and Hans Zimmer's musical score. It received numerous awards and nominations with Watson and McDonell each winning a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress; Hawke won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor as did Neill and Dafoe, while Blanchett was awarded an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. A sequel is currently in development.
