Anya Taylor-Joy
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Demographics
Gender Female
Birth Name Anya-Josephine Taylor-Joy
Birthplace Miami, Florida, U.S.
Birth Date April 16, 1996
Ethnicity Northwestern/Southern European
Father 1/2 Argentinian [English, Scottish], English, Scottish
Mother 1/2 Catalan, English, some French, Irish
Nationality Argentine, British
Career Actress, model
Color Season Dark Autumn
Notes and Motifs
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Joy : "I never fit in as a kid. I always felt that there was something different about me."
Joy: "I know it sounds really precious and pretentious, but I can't actually remember deciding to want to be an actor. I just knew that I had too many feelings and I had to kind of get them out in some way."
Joy: “I love the theater, I’d love to work in theater at some point, but I grew up with movies being something that I just clung to.”
Joy: “I have a very acute understanding of how I work as a person, so if I’m afraid, I shut down and can’t do anything. If I’m overwhelmed, I shut down and can’t do anything.”
Joy: “I’ve been very lucky with the roles that I’ve played in that they were wonderful roles for women.”
Joy: “I just want to see what life’s going to throw my way. So far, it’s been very unexpected. I’m kinda on a roller coaster and want to enjoy that.”
Joy: “I just want to work with wonderful people.”
Joy: “It is kind of bizarre, but at the same time, I feel like anyone that gets into movies didn’t fit into the real world, and so we made our own world.”
Joy: "I can't do something that I would not throw myself under a bus for."
Joy: “I got scouted for modeling, and it was really scary – I was walking my dog wearing heels for the first time ever because I had a party to go to the day after, and I wanted to practice, and this black car kind of started following me, so I, being dramatic, picked up the dog and started to run.”
Joy: “Modeling had never entered my consciousness. I was always like, ‘I’m going to act.’ But I thought, ‘If this can help me with that, great.”
Joy: “I refused to learn English for two years when we moved to London, hoping to send my family back home. It was tough, but at the same time, it has given me a sense of displacement that actually really suits the life that I’m living now.”
Joy: “I want it to be one where I love the work that I’ve done. And I like to think that I have good instincts.”
Joy: “I need specifically love, affection, people to touch me all the time. Because otherwise, I don’t really – I don’t cope very well. On ‘Morgan,’ everything is shot from the other side of the glass, so I was alone in a soundproof room watching everybody but being completely separate from whatever was going on.”
Joy: “I do not know where I see myself in the future.”
Joy: “I love films. It’s really funny, actually. Like, I see a lot of smaller movies. But a lot of these big, epic films that everyone’s like, ‘You have to see,’ I haven’t watched yet.”
Joy: “I used to run into the woods as a little kid looking for witches. But I’m not superstitious, because I m not afraid of it.”
Joy: “I don’t actually watch that much TV, but I was obsessed with Dawson’s Creek growing up. And ‘Freaks and Geeks. And 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter.”
Joy: “I got scouted when I was 16, almost 17, and it was something that had never entered my thoughts.”
Joy: “I just never thought about modeling before, but I thought, ‘Ooh, interesting, similar world, perhaps it’s a way into something.’ Then, I was on my third photoshoot ever, and Adam Leech from ‘Downtown Abbey’ saw me reading poetry and asked me to recite some.”
Joy: “It was very difficult to leave Argentina when I was kid, so I only spoke Spanish for the first six years of my life.”