The best films of Argentine Anya Taylor-Joy in world cinema

Anya Taylor-Gioia She was born in Miami, Florida, on April 16, 1996. Daughter of an English mother and an Argentine-Scottish father, Anya grew up between Buenos Aires and London. And he has both English and American nationality.

In Argentina he attended Northlands School and when he was 16 his family moved to Victoria, an area of ​​central London. So dramatic was her uprooting from Argentina, which she considered her homeland, that she abandoned her London studies and began a career as an actress.

After some small television roles, he made his film debut, as the protagonist, in the horror film The Witch (2015). This would be her big debut, which would lead her to win several awards such as Gotham and Empire.

Then came his roles in the terrifying Split (2016) and the black comedy Thoroughbreds (2017). Already in 2019 he would have joined one of the most acclaimed series by the public, Peaky Blinders.

And in 2020 Netflix will make her a global star thanks to an excellent series, The Queen’s Gambit, which sees her as the main protagonist in 7 chapters on the world of chess. The best films of Argentine Anya Taylor-Joy in world cinema

1. The witch

(2015). Director: Robert Eggers. Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger, Lucas Dawson. Available on Amazon Prime Video, Movistar TV and Apple TV.

Synopsis. In 1600s New England, a family of settlers lives in front of a mysterious forest suspected of having demonic characteristics. Faced with drought and poor harvests, the residents suspect that there is witchcraft upon the town, and the suspect is this family’s eldest daughter, Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy).

2. Fragmented (divided)

(2016). Director: M. Night Shyamalan. Starring: James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Betty Buckley, Brad William Henke, Haley Lu Richardson. Available on Amazon Prime video, Netflix and Star+.

Synopsis. This film belongs to the Unbreakable trilogy, consisting of Unbreakable, Split and Glass. It tells the story of a psychopath with 23 different personality types, who kidnaps three young people when the dominant personality in his mind takes control of his actions over the other 22 personalities. Anya Taylor-Joy, as Casey Cooke.

3.Morgan

(2016). Director: Luca Scott. Starring: Kate Mara, Anya Taylor-Joy, Toby Jones, Rose Leslie, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Giamatti Marion. Available on Star+ and Google Play.

Synopsis. Morgan (Anya Taylor-Joy) is a young cyborg created with bioengineering and who represents the greatest exponent of the triumph of science over nature. But the invention begins to fail and she does not respond to the scrutiny of scientists, so the company hires a machinery expert to find the fault and, if necessary, destroy it.

4. Glass

(2019). Director: M. Night Shyamalan. Starring: Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, James McAvoy, Sarah Paulson, Anya Taylor-Joy. Available on Disney+ and Star+.

Synopsis. “Unbreakable”, the guard with supernatural abilities, faces “Sliver”, the demented psychopath with 23 personalities. This confrontation brings them before comic book salesman and criminal mastermind Elijah Price, who is hiding unspeakable secrets from both men. This film completes the Unbreakable trilogy. Anya Taylor-Joy, who plays Casey Cooke, is a girl who was kidnapped as a potential sacrifice for The Beast.

5. Emma

(2020). Director: Autumn de Wilde. Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Angus Imrie, Letty Thomas, Mia Goth, Gemma Whelan, Bill Nighy, Aidan White, Rupert Graves, Edward Davis, Johnny Flynn. Available on Movistar TV and Google Play.

Synopsis. Based on Jane Austen’s novel of the same name (1815), Emma Woodhouse (Anya Taylor-Joy) is a young, beautiful and intelligent single woman in Regency England. With a hypochondriac father and a lot of empathy for her surroundings, she Emma cares about everyone’s well-being and is known as the town matchmaker. But with her way of being, she relegates her life, until her love knocks on her door.

6. The Mystery of Soho (Last Night in Soho)

(2021). Director: Edgar Wright. With: Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith, Terence Stamp, Diana Rigg. Available on Star+ and Movistar TV.

Synopsis. A young fashion lover from the 1960s, Eloise Turner (Thomasin McKenzie) wants to become a great designer. In her dream she travels through time and arrives in 1960s London, where she meets Sandie Collins (Anya Taylor-Joy), an aspiring singer, who lives with her boyfriend and pimp Jack (Matt Smith). There Eloise will meet her favorite singer, but she will discover that Soho is not what she has always idealized.

7. The Norman

(2022). Director: Robert Eggers. With: Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Anya Taylor-Joy, Björk, Ralph Ineson, Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe. Available on Movistar TV and HBO Max.

Synopsis. Film by director Robert Eggers who reunites with actress Anya Taylor-Joy after The Witch, surrounded by big stars such as Nicole Kidman, Björk, Ralph Ineson, Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe. Based on the Scandinavian legend that inspired Hamlet, a Viking, Amleth (Alexander Skarsgård) has the help of a slave, Olga (Anya Taylor-Joy) seeks revenge on an uncle who killed her father and kidnapped her mother.

8. The Menu

(2022). Director: Mark Mylod. Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Hong Chau, Janet McTeer. Available on Star+.

Synopsis. Tyler (Nicholas Hoult) and his partner Margot (Anya Taylor-Joy) embark on a boat trip to an island where the Hawthorne restaurant is located. There, a mysterious chef, Slowik (Ralph Fiennes), will prepare a menu that can change their lives.