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She is the recipient of several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Critics' Choice Television Award, in addition to nominations for a British Academy Film Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2021, she was featured in Time magazine's 'Time 100 Next' list.
Born in Miami and raised in Buenos Aires and London, Taylor-Joy left school at age sixteen and began to pursue an acting career. After small television roles, she made her film debut with the lead role of Thomasin in the horror film The Witch (2015), which won her a Gotham Award and an Empire Award. She went on to star in the horror film Split and the black comedy Thoroughbreds (both 2017); that same year, she earned a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination and won the Trophée Chopard from the Cannes Film Festival.