#Here Are Anya Taylor-Joy’s Best Performances, Ranked
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“#Here Are Anya Taylor-Joy’s Best Performances, Ranked”
Named by Time Magazine on the Time 100 Next list, Taylor-Joy has also received a Golden Globe, Critics’ Choice Television Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and multiple nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards and BAFTA Film Awards. As one of Hollywood’s most sought-after actresses, Taylor-Joy’s career shows no signs of slowing down. Here are Anya Taylor-Joy’s best performances, ranked.
8 The Witch
The Witch marks Taylor-Joy’s first film appearance, where she also played the film’s lead character Thomasin. From her first film role, Taylor-Joy’s filmography was off to great start. In the supernatural horror, Thomasin is continuously accused of withcraft by her peers and her family, who disregard Thomasin’s kind heart. Thomasin is the scapegoat for everything that goes wrong during the film.
The film is violent and full of suspense, presenting the story of a broken family falling into madness. The Witch may be too slow-paced for some audiences, but the film features a fantastic performance from its lead.
7 The New Mutants
After two decades, Fox’s X-Men film series concludes with the spinoff, The New Mutants. The film casts Anya Taylor-Joy as Illyana Rasputin (Magik), one of the more interesting characters in the comic book world of the X-Men. Illyana is a complex character with traits that distinguish her from characters of traditional superhero fare.
Rather than being a traditional superhero film, The New Mutants is a teen movie with horror elements. The mutants are teenagers forcibly held in what is described to them as a “hospital.” Illyana is initially brash, aggressive, and very rude, but she hides a traumatic past and many vulnerabilities. There are multiple dimensions to the character that Anya plays so well. As the walls Illyana places around herself begin coming down, The New Mutants reveals the courageous hero residing underneath.
6 Peaky Blinders
Crime drama Peaky Blinders introduces Taylor-Joy to the cast during its fifth season. Taylor-Joy plays the role of Gina Gray, the wife of Michael Gray. While Taylor-Joy often plays main characters, she plays a more antagonistic role, here, in Peaky Blinders. Gina Gray is a character that antagonizes Cillian Murphy’s Tommy Shelby, seeking to overthrow the Shelby family business.
Gina is a very ambitious woman. She even uses her husband for her own gain, demonstrating a willingness to manipulate and purposely sabotage others to get what she wants. Gina Gray brings out qualities in Michael that wouldn’t emerge otherwise. She makes an excellent addition to the character roster of Peaky Blinders.
5 Thoroughbreds
The film Thoroughbreds is an undernoticed gem that stars Taylor-Joy and Olivia Cooke. Thoroughbreds is about two teenage friends, Lily (Taylor-Joy) and Amanda (Cooke), who reconnect and plan to kill Lily’s stepfather. At the beginning of the film, Lily is portrayed as an upper-class, popular, academically gifted girl while Amanda is a social outsider, someone who seemingly does not feel emotion. Their time together leads to parts they initially hide about themselves rising to the surface, ultimately revealing the destructive forces within.
Throughout her career so far, Taylor-Joy has displayed a mastery of potraying both the inner light and darkness within her characters. The character work surrounding Lily in Thoroughbreds is no exception.
4 Split
James McAvoy is well-known for his performance in Split as Kevin Wendell Crumb, a man struggling with dissociative identity disorder. The beating heart of the film is the relationship between Kevin and Anya Taylor-Joy’s character in Casey Cooke. Casey becomes a victim of one of Kevin’s alternate personalities when his disorder causes him to kidnap Casey and two other girls. However, Kevin’s alter ego comes to realize that Casey is not like the other people he kidnaps.
McAvoy and Taylor-Joy’s performances bouncing incredibly well off of each other, supporting and working together in unison, is what ultimately allows the film to work.
3 Emma
Emma shares the same name as the Jane Austen novel it is based off of. The film features Taylor-Joy in the titular role, playing a wealthy woman living in 19th-century England. Emma takes great pleasure in interfering with other people’s romantic lives. She is a young woman, and over the course of the film, she learns more about herself, and learns about love and companionship.
Before Emma, Taylor-Joy was often recognized as a horror star. A film like Emma, however, demonstrates that she can just as easily star in period pieces and romantic comedies.
2 Last Night in Soho
Baby Driver director Edgar Wright creates a film that takes advantage of Anya Taylor-Joy’s many talents in Last Night in Soho. Ellie Turner harbors a love for the music of the sixties and decides to move to London to pursue her dream of becoming a fashion designer. While in London, Ellie experiences visions that transport her back in time, following the life of Anya Taylor-Joy’s aspiring singer Sandie. Ellie quickly discovers that the past is not as glamorous as it seems.
A a capella cover of Petula Clark’s 1964 song, “Downtown”, highlights Anya Taylor-Joy and her character’s singing talent. However, Sandie enters a world of darkness, presenting Ellie with mysteries she has to unravel. Anya portrays the singer that Ellie wants to learn more about, creating a character that is equal parts mysterious and charming.
1 The Queen’s Gambit
Taylor-Joy shared with Deadline that Beth Harmon from The Queen’s Gambit is the character closest to her of all the characters she has played. The mannerisms of the actress are present in the chess prodigy; Taylor-Joy gives everything she has and pours all of herself into Beth. The strong connection between actress and character shows in the performance.
Over the course of the series, Beth explores her passion for chess while struggling with addiction and a set of complex personal issues. The Queen’s Gambit is not simply about a woman who is skilled at chess, but is the story of a lonely woman who while being extraordinarily talented, is still struggling to find their place in the world. Anya Taylor-Joy proves her deep understanding of the character and proves she is the perfect actress to tell Beth’s story.
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