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Anya Taylor-Joy

Anya Taylor-Joy

10 films · 683 frames · top-billed in 7 · 20172024

Born 16 April 1996 · Miami, Florida, USA

Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy is an actress. Born in Miami and raised in Buenos Aires and London, she left school at 16 to pursue an acting career. After several minor television roles, her breakthrough came with a leading role in the horror film The Witch (2015). Her career progressed with roles in the horror film Split (2016) and its sequel Glass (2019), the black comedy film Thoroughbreds (2017), and playing Emma Woodhouse in the period drama Emma (2020).

Taylor-Joy featured in the television crime drama series Peaky Blinders (2019–2022) and earned international recognition for playing Beth Harmon in the period drama miniseries The Queen's Gambit (2020), winning a Golden Globe

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 10 films · 683 frames · top-billed in 7 · 20172024

  • Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film2021
  • Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie2021
  • Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Movie/Miniseries Actress2021
  • Trophée Chopard2015

How their films are shot

Measured across 683 frames from the 10 films we hold. This is the look of the work Anya takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 10 films we hold, 48% of their frames are day, 45% natural — the look of the work Anya takes.

Time of day

Day48%
Night43%
Interior5%

Lighting

Natural45%
Low key39%
High key12%

Shot size

Medium42%
Wide25%
Closeup22%
Fullbody6%

Camera angle

Eye level78%
High angle10%
Low angle10%

Mood

Neutral45%
Tense27%
Ominous9%
Lonely7%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 683 frames from Anya Taylor-Joy's 10 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.