Anya Taylor-Joy

Anya Taylor-Joy was born April 16 1996, in Miami Florida. She is half English and one-half Spanish. Parents were Dennis Alan Taylor an ex-banker as well as Jennifer Marina Joy psychologist. The father of her mother, who is Argentinean of Scottish and English heritage is her mother. Her mother's ancestry is Spanish as well as English. Taylor-Joy was born into a family that included six children. Four of them are siblings from the previous marriage to Taylor's father. They lived in Buenos Aires until she was six then relocated to the Victoria area of London. According to Taylor-Joy, this removal was extremely difficult for her and she was unable to study English to the hope of moving back to Argentina. She had to switch schools from Northlands in order to attend Hill House. Then she went to Queen's Gate School and studied ballet. She dropped out of the high school aged 16 to pursue an acting profession. Taylor-Joy's ambition to become an actor started when she was just a child. Sarah Doukas of Storm Management was the very first model who hired her as model for professional models.