Like a true champion, actress Anya Taylor-Joy had the perfect strategy to take her to the top. The star of The Queen’s Gambit – Netflix ’s smash-hit drama about a chess genius – knew at an early age that she wanted to be an actor.
Check... at just five she declared her Hollywood dream. Check... at seven she told her parents she wanted an agent. Check...
she was “a leading light” in early shows at a London prep school. Check... a high-profile modelling agency gave her a break before Anya, now 24, moved into acting full-time.
Check, check, check... big movie roles came her way in The Witch and period drama Emma – while British TV fans saw her as the meddling American wife of Michael Gray in TV’s Peaky Blinders.
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