Anya Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy is an American-born Argentine-British actress. She appeared in the fantasy series Atlantis (2015) and earned several accolades for her performance in the period horror film The Witch (2015). She gained further fame for performances as Casey Cooke in the psychological horror films Split (2016) and Glass (2019), Lily Reynolds in the black comedy Thoroughbreds (2017), and Emma Woodhouse in the Jane Austen adaptation Emma. (2020).