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Joy Swoyer Kosisky, 43, of Newnan, Ga., passed away Wednesday, July 15, 2015. Joy was born Oct. 23, 1971, in Jeannette, a daughter of the late Janet Irwin. Joy was an award winning TD/Director at CNN and Turner Broadcasting and an acclaimed film producer.
Joy Swoyer is known for Undocumented Executive (2012), Pay It Off (2009) and Breaking the Curse with Daryn Kagan (2007).
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Mar 29, 2024 · Actor Anya Taylor-Joy starred in the hit Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit and has appeared in movies such as The Menu and Split. Growing up in Argentina and the United Kingdom, the...
2 days ago · Taylor-Joy is an actress who soared to fame in the central role of the Netflix Series “Queen’s Gambit” and who recently starred in the “Mad Max: Fury Road” prequel “Furiosa.”. In ...
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- Early life
- First roles and The Witch
- Becoming a “scream queen”
- Emma. and The Queen’s Gambit
- Other roles from the 2020s
Anya Taylor-Joy (born April 16, 1996, Miami, Florida, U.S.) is an actress who broke through with her lauded performance in the 2015 horror film The Witch and became an international star with the lead role in the Netflix period drama miniseries The Queen’s Gambit (2020). David O. Russell, who directed Taylor-Joy in the movie Amsterdam (2022), summe...
Taylor-Joy, the youngest of six children, was born to a cosmopolitan family in Miami. Her mother, Jennifer Marina Joy, was born in Zambia and is of English and Spanish descent, while Taylor-Joy’s father, Dennis Taylor, has a Scottish and Argentine background. Soon after Taylor-Joy was born, the family moved to Argentina where Taylor-Joy’s mother wa...
Taylor-Joy had known since she was young that she wanted to become an actress, and she saw modeling as a gateway to the screen. She soon made her acting debut in 2014 with brief appearances in the television shows Vampire Academy (2014) and Endeavour (2012–23). The following year she landed a part in The Witch, a supernatural horror film about a fa...
In her next roles, Taylor-Joy showcased her range, playing a prophet in the second season of the TV series Atlantis (2013–15), a humanoid in the science-fiction feature Morgan (2016), and the college girlfriend of eventual U.S. president Barack Obama in the Netflix film Barry (2016). She was nonetheless soon branded as a “scream queen” thanks in pa...
In 2020 Taylor-Joy became a sensation with lead parts in the feature Emma. and the Netflix miniseries The Queen’s Gambit. In the former, she assumed the role of Emma Woodhouse, a character who Jane Austen sums up in the novel of the same name as “handsome, clever, and rich.” In The Queen’s Gambit Taylor-Joy played the fictional chess prodigy Beth H...
Taylor-Joy continued to land headlining parts in the early 2020s. She took on a role as a Russian sorceress in The New Mutants (2020), an action movie based on characters from Marvel Comics’ X-Men; starred as an aspiring singer in the 1960s in Last Night in Soho (2021), a psychological thriller directed by Edgar Wright; reteamed with The Witch director Robert Eggers in The Northman (2022), a drama about a Viking avenging his father’s murder; and joined the star-studded cast of Amsterdam, a quirky comedy directed by Russell. For her role in the dark comedy The Menu (2022), Taylor-Joy was again nominated for a Golden Globe for best actress in a motion picture. In 2022 Taylor-Joy quietly married musician Malcolm McRae, holding a ceremony in Venice a year later.
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2 days ago · Anya Taylor-Joy is revealing her surprising connection to Forrest Gump.. Letterboxd posted a clip on Instagram of an interview with the Queen's Gambit star, 28, promoting her recent film Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga with her costar Chris Hemsworth on Saturday, July 6 — which is the 30th anniversary of the release date of the classic film starring Tom Hanks as the titular character.
