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.
Anya Taylor-Joy
Vespera Von-Vandermint
for Vespera Von-Vandermint in Welcome To CandyLand
Suggested by alexanderarmstrong
In the hyper-saturated city of Dulce, the sun never sets, and the air smells of spun sugar. The society, led by a matriarchy of "Confectioners," lives in a permanent state of aesthetic perfection. To these women, The Licorice Man is merely a dark nursery rhyme—a cautionary tale of a man who turned bitter and retreated into the lightless deep. But the sweetness has become a trap. A cosmic anomaly known as The Saturation is bleeding into their world, forcing a "perfect" evolution. The horror is beautiful: skin turns to shimmering porcelain-glaze, and breath becomes a suffocating violet mist. It isn't killing the women of Dulce; it is transforming them into living, hollow ornaments—conscious but paralyzed in a crystalline "masterpiece." As the city’s leaders begin to succumb, a small group of survivors flees the blinding light for the only place the Saturation cannot reach: the Salt-Wastes. There, they find the legend is real. The Licorice Man is a scarred hermit who has survived by embracing the acrid and the vile. To save their humanity, the women must undergo a brutal "unsweetening"—learning that in a world of lethal beauty, the only way to stay alive is to become something the "perfection" refuses to consume. "Licorice is delicious in comparison."
