Anya Taylor-Joy Trivia
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49 free Anya Taylor-Joy trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 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
Miami was only a holiday stop: her parents were on vacation there when she arrived 'on a fluke'. The accident made her a US citizen.
Q 02In which city did Taylor-Joy spend her early childhood before moving to London?
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires was home until the family left for London, a move she says 'broke all of our hearts'. Only at 14 did she come round and apologise to her parents, once she saw the freedom the city gave her.
Q 03Taylor-Joy's father, a former banker, won two world championships in which sport?
Offshore powerboat racing
Offshore powerboat racing: Dennis Taylor gave up a career in international banking to race catamarans across open water, and took both of his world titles in the 1980s.
Q 04In a 2019 biopic, Taylor-Joy played Irène, the daughter of which Nobel Prize-winning scientist?
Marie Curie
Marie Curie, played by Rosamund Pike in Radioactive. The real Irène served as a nurse radiographer in the First World War, X-raying the wounded, and went on to win a Nobel Prize of her own in 1935.
Q 05Taylor-Joy's first audition was for which Angelina Jolie character's younger self?
Maleficent
Maleficent: she wanted the Disney part badly and 'bawled my eyes out' when it went elsewhere, though she admits she looks nothing like Jolie. Not long afterwards she was asked to tape an audition for The Witch.
Q 06What did the young Taylor-Joy initially refuse to do after arriving in London?
Learn English
Learn English: she held out until she was eight, two years after arriving, simply too upset at having left home. School stayed hard even once she spoke the language, and she recalls being locked in lockers.
Q 07Taylor-Joy trained seriously until age 15 in which discipline?
Ballet
Ballet: she took lessons 'pretty seriously' until 15 and jokes that she has done no exercise since. The body remembers, she says, which helped when Last Night in Soho needed her to dance.
Q 08Taylor-Joy was scouted as a model while walking her dog outside which London department store?
Harrods
Harrods: a black car trailed her until she scooped up her dog and ran, sure it was a stalker. Inside was Storm's Sarah Doukas, who had spotted Kate Moss, and who told her never to stop for a car again.
Q 09An actor from which TV drama heard Taylor-Joy reciting Seamus Heaney and introduced her to his agent?
Downton Abbey
Downton Abbey's Allen Leech found her revising Heaney's 'Digging' for her GCSEs at a cast photo shoot she had tried to skip. As she tells it, he asked her to recite it, then what she wanted to be, and put her in touch with his agent.
Q 10Taylor-Joy's first acting job, as a 'Feeder Girl', was cut from which 2014 film?
Vampire Academy
Vampire Academy cut her part before release, so her film debut slipped a year, to The Witch.
Q 11Taylor-Joy's television debut came in a 2014 episode of which Oxford-set detective drama?
Endeavour
Endeavour, the 1960s-set Inspector Morse prequel, gave her one episode as Philippa Collins-Davidson. It was the first audiences saw of her only because the film scene she had shot earlier was cut.
Q 12Who wrote and directed The Witch (2015), Taylor-Joy's breakthrough film?
Robert Eggers
Robert Eggers made it as his first feature, drawn to the subject by a childhood fascination with witches and decaying colonial farms. He and Taylor-Joy worked together again on The Northman.
Q 13The Witch premiered in January 2015 at which film festival?
Sundance
Q 21Taylor-Joy played a young bride in 17th-century Amsterdam in which BBC adaptation?
The Miniaturist
The Miniaturist: Jessie Burton named her heroine after the real Petronella Oortman, whose lavish doll's house is in the Rijksmuseum. In the story, tiny figures sent for the house seem to foretell the family's secrets.
Q 22Glass (2019), in which Taylor-Joy reprised her Split role, concluded which film trilogy?
Unbreakable
Unbreakable came out in 2000, and Split gave no hint of a link until Bruce Willis's David Dunn appeared in its final scene. M. Night Shyamalan even cut that scene from test screenings to keep the secret.
Q 23In The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Taylor-Joy voiced Princess Brea, a member of which race?
Gelfling
Sundance was a shock for its star: seeing herself on screen for the first time, Taylor-Joy was devastated and sure she would never work again. The film made her name instead.
Q 14What is the name of the Puritan daughter Taylor-Joy plays in The Witch?
Thomasin
Thomasin is minding her baby brother when he vanishes, so her banished family comes to blame her as a witch. By the end the accusation comes true, and she walks into the woods to join the coven.
Q 15What is the name of the family's billy goat in The Witch?
Black Phillip
Black Phillip really does talk, as the twins insist. Near the end the goat answers their sister in a human voice, offering her the taste of butter and the chance to 'live deliciously'.
Q 16Morgan (2016), starring Taylor-Joy, was directed by Luke, the son of which filmmaker?
Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott produced it as his son Luke's first feature. Morgan is a bioengineered child who attacks one of her handlers, so a corporate troubleshooter arrives to decide whether she is kept alive.
Q 17The 2016 drama Barry, in which Taylor-Joy appeared, is about the student years of which future president?
Barack Obama
Barack Obama, seen in 1981 during his first year at Columbia. Taylor-Joy's Charlotte never existed: the character is a composite of the girlfriends the real Obama had as a student.
Q 18What is the name of the abducted teenager Taylor-Joy plays opposite James McAvoy in Split?
Casey Cooke
Casey Cooke is the only one of the three girls the Beast lets live. He stops when he sees her scars and declares that, because she has suffered, she is 'pure'.
Q 19Thoroughbreds (2017) finished filming two weeks before the death of which co-star, to whom it is dedicated?
Anton Yelchin
Anton Yelchin plays the small-time dealer the two girls try to hire as a killer. Taylor-Joy later appeared in Love, Antosha, the documentary about his life.
Q 20In 2017 Taylor-Joy received the Trophée Chopard at which film festival?
Cannes
Cannes: Chopard, the jeweller that crafts the festival's Palme d'Or, created the trophy to reward one promising young actress and one young actor there each year.
Gelfling: Brea is one of three who discover that the Skeksis, the rulers their people worship, are draining living creatures of their essence, and who rouse the clans to rebel.
Q 24What is the name of Taylor-Joy's character in Peaky Blinders?
Gina Gray
Gina Gray is Michael's American wife, who arrives after the Wall Street Crash and pushes him to try to take the Shelby company from Tommy. The failed bid gets the pair cast out of the family.
Q 25Who made her directorial debut with Emma (2020), starring Taylor-Joy as Emma Woodhouse?
Autumn de Wilde
Autumn de Wilde, a photographer by trade, put a full stop in the film's title, Emma., and explained that 'there's a period at the end of Emma because it's a period film'.
Q 26Which Russian mutant did Taylor-Joy play in The New Mutants?
Magik
Magik, real name Illyana Rasputin, fights with a glowing sword and a purple dragon called Lockheed. Shot in 2017, the film was pushed back again and again and reached cinemas only in August 2020.
Q 27The Queen's Gambit is based on a 1983 novel by which author?
Walter Tevis
Walter Tevis wrote from experience: a modest tournament chess player, he claimed to be better at pool, the game of his first novel, The Hustler. He died a year after the chess novel came out.
Q 28What is the name of the orphaned chess prodigy Taylor-Joy plays in The Queen's Gambit?
Beth Harmon
Beth Harmon learns chess at nine from Mr Shaibel, the orphanage custodian, in the basement. The same home hands its girls daily tranquillisers, and the habit shadows her whole rise.
Q 29The Queen's Gambit, set largely in Kentucky, was mostly filmed in which European city?
Berlin
Berlin stood in for Kentucky, Cincinnati, Las Vegas and Mexico City alike. The heroine's orphanage is really a castle just outside the German capital, and her Las Vegas hotel was found in the city too.
Q 30Who wrote and directed The Queen's Gambit?
Scott Frank
Scott Frank, by her account, had only the novel to show her: she read it at once, ran to their meeting and told him before hello that it wasn't about chess and the heroine had to have red hair; he agreed and told her to sit down.