The youthful and intelligent Anya Taylor-Joy strikes a chic pose in her pink Flamenco dress and appears comfortable in front of the camera, a spot she fully intended to stay in.
Anya was barely five years old when she was filmed informing her mother that she was going to be an actor. She is currently on the edge of enormous popularity in the title role in the most recent film rendition of Jane Austen’s Emma. She was pleading with her parents for an agency two years later.
The actress, who was born in Miami, spent her early years in Buenos Aires, where the exclusive shot was taken. The family relocated to Britain shortly after.
Anya started her career as a catwalk model before making her big screen debut in the horror flick The Witch in 2015. Then came recurring TV parts in Peaky Blinders and Atlantis. But when the movie hits theaters on Friday, it will be her portrayal of the aristocratic matchmaker Emma Woodhouse that will catapult the 23-year-old to even greater fame.
Thanks to her exceptional memory, which allows her to memorize a script just once, she has secured roles in two upcoming films: The New Mutants, which is the 13th and last installment of the X-Men franchise, and Last Night in Soho, a psychological horror film set in the 1960s that will star Matt Smith and be released later this year.
She also takes pride in her flawless accent delivery, which she attributes to her early nomadic upbringing. I was raised in several different locations. She once observed, “Belonging to all of them, you also belong to none of them.” My mother is African-Spanish-English, and my father is Scottish-Argentinian. I was born in Miami, and we immediately relocated to Argentina. Next, we relocated to London.
But Anya did not speak English for two years when her father relocated the family to the UK and gave up his job as an investment banker to become a powerboat racer. She claimed, “I was stubborn and just wanted to go home, so I did not learn English.”
Anya, 23, the youngest of six children, experienced bullying at her prestigious private school in West London. She remarked, “I was too American to be anything, too English to be Argentine, and too Argentine to be English.” “I just was not understood by the kids.” Now, the greatest retaliation is her achievement.