Where would contemporary film and television be without Anya Taylor-Joy ? Born in Miami and raised in Buenos Aires and London, the actress has taken the world by storm since her breakthrough role in Robert Eggers ’ 2015 horror film The Witch . Since then, she’s also starred in crowd favorites like The Queen’s Gambit , Split , and Emma , to name just a few. It's hard to imagine a film industry without Taylor-Joy, yet this very well could have happened if it weren’t for a particular movie that the actress saw as a child.
In an interview alongside Chris Hemsworth to promote Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga , Taylor-Joy told Letterboxd that Neil Jordan ’s Interview with the Vampire inspired her to get into acting. The 1994 film, which stars Brad Pitt