Anya Taylor-Joy burst onto the scene with her performance in A24’s The VVitch, which won her rave reviews when it premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. In his debut feature, writer/director Robert Eggers tells the story of a pilgrim family that is besieged by a supernatural force. She went on to win the Breakthrough Actor Award at The Gotham Awards and Best Female Newcomer Award at The Empires for her performance.
Below, we’ve rounded up the best Anya Taylor-Joy movies and series, ranked by Tomatometer!
Anya Taylor-Joy Biography
Taylor-Joy captivated audiences globally in Netflix’s critically Emmy award-winning series, “The Queen’s Gambit”. Based on Walter Tevis’ 1983 novel of the same name, the show is Netflix’s biggest limited scripted series to date and was streamed by a record-setting 62 million households in its first 28 days. For her portrayal of Beth Harmon, she won the Golden Globe, Critics’ Choice, and Screen Actors Guild awards and was nominated for an Emmy award.
Alongside Nicole Kidman and Alexander Skarsgård, Taylor-Joy’s newest release is The Northman. Directed by Robert Eggers, this Viking revenge saga is set in Iceland at the turn of the 10th century for Focus Features. Taylor-Joy then appeared in David O. Russell’s period comedy Amsterdam, which emerged as a critical and commercial failure. Released the following month was Mark Mylod’s black comedy thriller The Menu, in which Taylor-Joy starred opposite Nicholas Hoult and Ralph Fiennes. The film garnered largely positive reviews, and her performance gained her a Golden Globe Award nomination.
She’s currently in production of David O. Russell’s forthcoming feature for New Regency and the titular role in Furiosa, a spinoff feature of George Miller’s multi-Oscar-winning blockbuster Mad Max: Fury Road, which is set to premiere in May 2024.
Her extensive filmography includes Edgar Wright’s BAFTA nominated Last Night in Soho, Autumn de Wilde’s Emma, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe, Split and Glass, the second and final installments in M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable trilogy, Focus Features’ critically acclaimed Thoroughbreds, the animated musical adventure comedy film, Playmobil: The Movie for StudioCanal, Universal’s Marrowbone, Fox’s Morgan, Marvel’s The New Mutants, and Amazon’s Radioactive.
On television, Taylor-Joy starred in the BBC/PBS Masterpiece miniseries “The Miniaturist”, voiced the character of Brea in Netflix’s critically acclaimed fantasy series, “The Dark Crystal”, and starred in the fifth season of the gangster period epic, “Peaky Blinders”.
Anya Taylor-Joy Filmography
YEAR | TITLE | ROLE |
2023 | The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) | Princess Peach |
2022 | The Northman (2022) | Olga of the Birch Forest |
2022 | The Menu (2022) | Margot |
2022 | Amsterdam (2022) | Actor |
2021 | Last Night in Soho (2021) | Sandy |
2020 | The New Mutants | Illyana Rasputin |
2020 | Emma (2020) | Emma Woodhouse |
2019 | Glass (2019) | Casey Cooke |
2019 | Playmobil: The Movie (2019) | Marla |
2019 | Radioactive | Irene |
2017 | Thoroughbreds | Lily |
2017 | Marrowbone | Allie |
2016 | Morgan | Morgan |
2016 | Split (2017) | Casey Cooke |
2016 | Barry | Charlotte |
2015 | The Witch (2016) | Thomasin |