Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy is an actress. She has won several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for a BAFTA Film Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.
Taylor Joy appeared in the fifth and sixth seasons of the television crime drama Peaky Blinders (2019–2022) and played Emma Woodhouse in the period drama Emma (2020), which gained her a Golden Globe Award nomination.
Also in 2020, she received acclaim for her performance as chess prodigy Beth Harmon in the Netflix miniseries The Queen’s Gambit, winning a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award and receiving a nomination for an Emmy Award.
Is Anya Taylor Joy a lesbian?
Anya Taylor-Joy is a heterosexual, she is neither a lesbian, gay, nor queer as it has been widely speculated.
The Hollywood Reporter named Taylor Joy on their list of 2016 Hollywood’s Rising Stars 35 and Under, and she was included in a similar list compiled by W magazine in 2017.
In 2019, she appeared on the annual Forbes 30 Under 30 list, a compilation of “the brightest young entrepreneurs, innovators, and game changers in the world”.