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Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy (born 16 April 1996) is a British-American actress. She is best known for her roles as Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit (2020), Thomasin in the period horror film The Witch (2015), as Casey Cooke in the horror-thriller Split (2016), and as Lily in the black comedy thriller Thoroughbreds (2017). She has been the recipient of the Cannes Film Festival's Trophée Chopard and was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award.
Anya was born in Miami, the youngest of six children. Her father is Scottish who was born in South America, and her mother is Spanish-English who was born in Zambia in Africa, to an English diplomat father and a Spanish mother from Barcelona. Anya lived her childhood between Argentina and England. Her father was a banker and a powerboat racer, and her mother is a psychologist. Anya was raised in Argentina until the age of six, then moved to London, where the family lived in Victoria. She attended Northlands School in Buenos Aires, then preparatory school Hill House and Queen's Gate School in London, and is also a former ballet dancer. Anya's dream of becoming an actress came when she was very young and it finally became possible when she was offered a modeling job. It wasn't long until Taylor-Joy received her first part in the Show Business. When she was fourteen, she used her savings to move to New York, and at 16, she left school to pursue acting.
Anya's outstanding performance as Thomasin in Robert Eggers' period horror film The Witch (2015), and the positive reviews it got at the Sundance festival revealed her incredible potential to the world; it was widely released and viewed in 2016. She then starred as the title character in the thriller Morgan (2016), directed Luke Scott and also starring Kate Mara. She also starred in Vikram Gandhi's film Barry, which focused on a young Barack Obama in 1981 New York City. Taylor-Joy played one of Obama's close friends. In 2017, she headlined M. Night Shyamalan's horror-thriller film Split (2016), playing Casey Cooke, a girl abducted by a mysterious man with split personalities. In 2019, she reprised her role as Casey in the film Glass. Anya was also the lead actress in the music video for Skrillex's remix of GTA's song Red Lips. She was nominated for the 2017 BAFTA Rising Star Award.
Taylor-Joy is attached to star in Nosferatu, a remake of the film of the same name, to be directed by Eggers in her third collaboration with him. She will also star in The Sea Change.- Actress
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Annalise Nicole Basso is an American film and television actress, writer, and producer. Her older siblings, Alexandria Basso and Gabriel Basso, are also actors. She has starred in the films The Life of Chuck, Oculus (2013), Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), and Bedtime Stories (2008). In 2016, her film Captain Fantastic (2016) debuted at the Cannes Film Festival. From 2019 until 2022, she starred in the television series Snowpiercer (2020). She produced her first film Blind River in 2022.- Director
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Natja Brunckhorst was born on 26 September 1966 in Berlin, Germany. She is a director and writer, known for Two to One (2024), Alles in bester Ordnung (2021) and Christiane F. (1981).- Actress
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A natural talent with a striking presence, Haley Bennett continues to establish herself as one of Hollywood's most dynamic actresses.
Upcoming, Bennett will star opposite Austin Stowell in Carlo Mirabella-Davis's SWALLOW, on which she also serves as an executive producer. Bennett plays 'Hunter,' a pregnant, young housewife, whose seemingly perfect existence takes an alarming turn when she begins compulsively and uncontrollably eating dangerous objects. The film made its world premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, garnering massive critical acclaim, including Bennett's award for Best Actress. The film later appeared at the 2019 Deauville Film Festival, where it was awarded the Prix spécial du 45E and nominated for the Grand Special Prize. IFC Films is set to release the film in March 2020.
Following, Bennett will be seen in Ron Howard's HILLBILLY ELEGY for Netflix. Amy Adams and Glenn Close co-star in the film. Based on J.D. Vance's bestselling memoir that follows three generations of an Appalachian family as told by its youngest member, a Yale law student is forced to return to his hometown. Bennett will also star in Antonio Campos's Netflix thriller THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME alongside Robert Pattinson, Bill Skarsgard, and Jason Clarke. Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, the film follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. Both films are set for release in 2020.
Bennett's other film credits include THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT opposite Chris Evans; THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE opposite Miles Teller; THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN co-starring Emily Blunt; THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN opposite Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt; Warren Beatty's RULES DON'T APPLY; Antoine Fuqua's hit film THE EQUALIZER with Denzel Washington and Gregg Araki's festival darling KABOOM, which premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2010.
Bennett made her on screen debut opposite Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant in the Marc Lawrence-directed film MUSIC AND LYRICS. She then went on to star in a range of different films including the hugely successful MARLEY AND ME opposite Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson and directed by David Frankel, ARCADIA LOST opposite Carter Jenkins and Academy-Award-Nominee Nick Nolte, and in Shekhar Kapur's short film PASSAGES, opposite Lily Cole and Julia Stiles which premiered to critical acclaim at the prestigious Venice Film Festival.
In 2018, Bennett made her stage debut opposite Peter Dinklage in the Terris Theatre's CYRANO, a new musical adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac for Goodspeed featuring original music by the National's Aaron and Bryce Dessner.