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50 free Anya Taylor-Joy trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Anya Taylor-Joy was born in Miami by accident, grew up in Buenos Aires, refused to learn English when her family moved to London at six, and was scouted as a model while walking her dog outside Harrods. A Downton Abbey actor heard her reciting Seamus Heaney on a shoot and introduced her to his agent. Two years later she was Thomasin in The Witch, and by 2020 she was the chess prodigy Beth Harmon in Netflix's biggest scripted miniseries. This quiz covers the whole run: the powerboat-racing father and psychologist mother, the ballet years, the deleted Vampire Academy debut, the Robert Eggers films, Split and Glass, Thoroughbreds, Peaky Blinders, Emma, The Queen's Gambit and its seven episodes, Last Night in Soho, The Northman, The Menu, Dune, Furiosa, the Mario movies, The Gorge, the New Orleans wedding and the Joni Mitchell biopic to come. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for a movie night.
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Q 01In which US city was Anya Taylor-Joy born, by what she calls a 'fluke', in 1996?
Miami
Her parents were on holiday there. The birthplace gave her American citizenship under US jus soli law.
Q 02In which city did Taylor-Joy spend her early childhood before moving to London?
Buenos Aires
She attended Northlands School there and is fluent in Spanish and English. She is the youngest of six siblings.
Q 03Taylor-Joy's father, a former banker, won two world championships in which sport?
Offshore powerboat racing
Dennis Alan Taylor took the UIM titles in the 1980s. He is Argentine, of English and Scottish descent.
Q 04Taylor-Joy's mother, a psychologist, was born in which African country?
Zambia
Jennifer Marina Joy's father was an English diplomat and her mother was from Barcelona.
Q 05How old was Taylor-Joy when her family moved to London?
Six
They settled in the Victoria area. She found the move traumatic and felt 'too English to be Argentine, too Argentine to be English'.
Q 06What did the young Taylor-Joy initially refuse to do after arriving in London?
Learn English
She hoped the family would move back to Argentina. At school she recalls being locked in lockers.
Q 07Taylor-Joy trained in ballet until what age?
15
She studied at Hill House in Knightsbridge and Queen's Gate School in South Kensington, acting in school productions.
Q 08At 17, Taylor-Joy was scouted as a model while walking her dog outside which London store?
Harrods
Storm Management founder Sarah Doukas signed her on condition that acting stayed her first pursuit.
Q 09Which Downton Abbey actor heard Taylor-Joy reciting Seamus Heaney and introduced her to his agent?
Allen Leech
She was on a Downton promotional shoot she had nearly skipped for her GCSEs, running lines of 'Digging' for a screen test.
Q 10Taylor-Joy's first acting job, as a 'Feeder Girl', was cut from which 2014 film?
Vampire Academy
Her scenes were dropped from the final cut, so her television debut in Endeavour was the first audiences saw of her.
Q 11Taylor-Joy's television debut came in an episode of which detective drama?
Endeavour
She played Philippa Collins-Davidson, then had a multi-episode arc in the fantasy series Atlantis in 2015.
Q 12Who wrote and directed The Witch (2015), Taylor-Joy's breakthrough film?
Robert Eggers
It was his feature debut too. She won the Gotham Breakthrough Actor award and Empire's Best Female Newcomer.
Q 13The Witch premiered in January 2015 at which film festival?
Sundance
A24 gave it a wide release in February 2016; it took $40 million on a $4 million budget.
Q 21In 2017 Taylor-Joy received the Trophée Chopard at which film festival?
Cannes
The same year she was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award.
Q 22In the BBC miniseries The Miniaturist, Taylor-Joy played which character?
Petronella Oortman
The 2017 period drama was adapted from Jessie Burton's novel.
Q 23Glass (2019), in which Taylor-Joy reprised her Split role, concluded which film trilogy?
Unbreakable
She appeared with McAvoy, Samuel L. Jackson and Sarah Paulson; it grossed $247 million.
Which character did Taylor-Joy voice in The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance?
Q 14What is the name of the Puritan daughter Taylor-Joy plays in The Witch?
Thomasin
Set in 1630s New England, the family is banished from its settlement and turns on its eldest daughter as a suspected witch.
Q 15What is the name of the family's billy goat in The Witch?
Black Phillip
The twins insist he talks to them. The family dog is called Fowler.
Q 16Taylor-Joy played the title role in Morgan (2016); who directed it?
Luke Scott
The sci-fi horror flopped, though one critic praised her teeter-tottering between innocence and 'dead-eyed viciousness'.
Q 17The 2016 drama Barry, in which Taylor-Joy appeared, is about the student years of which future president?
Barack Obama
It covers his first year at Columbia in 1981 and premiered at Toronto.
Q 18Taylor-Joy's likeness appeared on Skulduggery Pleasant book covers as which character?
Valkyrie Cain
Storm Management licensed it for the tenth-anniversary edition and four more books in the series.
Q 19What is the name of the abducted teenager Taylor-Joy plays opposite James McAvoy in Split?
Casey Cooke
M. Night Shyamalan's 'stealth sequel' to Unbreakable took $278.5 million on a $9 million budget.
Q 20Thoroughbreds (2017) was the last film of which actor, who died two weeks after it wrapped?
Anton Yelchin
He played the drug dealer hired to kill Lily's stepfather; the film is dedicated to him and Taylor-Joy appeared in the documentary Love, Antosha.
Brea
The 2019 Netflix puppet fantasy came the same year as two flops, Playmobil: The Movie and Radioactive.
Q 25What is the name of Taylor-Joy's character in Peaky Blinders?
Gina Gray
She joined the BBC crime drama in 2019 and stayed through its final series in 2022.
Q 26Who made her directorial debut with Emma (2020), starring Taylor-Joy as Emma Woodhouse?
Autumn de Wilde
Eleanor Catton wrote the screenplay. Mark Kermode liked that her Emma was 'less likable than some of her screen predecessors'.
Q 27Which mutant sorceress did Taylor-Joy play in The New Mutants?
Magik
Illyana Rasputin, sister of the X-Men's Colossus. The film was meant for April 2018 and finally arrived in 2020.
Q 28The Queen's Gambit is based on a 1983 novel by which author?
Walter Tevis
Allan Scott owned the rights and created the series with writer-director Scott Frank.
Q 29What is the name of the orphaned chess prodigy Taylor-Joy plays in The Queen's Gambit?
Beth Harmon
Raised in a Kentucky orphanage where the custodian teaches her chess and the staff hand out tranquillisers.
Q 30How many episodes of The Queen's Gambit were released in October 2020?
Seven
Netflix had ordered six. Much of it was shot in and around Berlin, with a Schloss standing in for the orphanage.