Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#198
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Anya Taylor-Joy works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Anya Taylor-Joy appears in 27 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Anya. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, fantasy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Andy Serkis, Aaron Horvath, Denis Villeneuve and others, Anya Taylor-Joy helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) as Princess Peach (voice) · The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) as Princess Peach (voice) · The Gorge (2025) as Drasa
Career snapshot
Ranked #198 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
27
2014–2027
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Average Nutevio score
5.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Most frequent director
Aaron Horvath
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Aaron Horvath
Most common genre
Comedy
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 36m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.2
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Playmobil: The Movie, Love, Antosha, Thoroughbreds — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 9 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.6
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Playmobil: The Movie, Love, Antosha, Thoroughbreds.
Most productive era
2020s
18 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.43 films | 6.55 films |
| Action | 6.31 film | 3.64 films |
| Thriller | 6.85 films | 7.52 films |
| Comedy | 6.02 films | 6.17 films |
| Romance | — | 7.13 films |
| Horror | 6.94 films | 6.93 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2014Vampire Academy
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Feeder Girl.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
8.3 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2027The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum
The current state of the argument, as Seren.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
27 of 27 films
as Princess Peach (voice)
Directed by Aaron Horvath
as Furiosa
Directed by George Miller
as Princess Peach (voice)
Directed by Aaron Horvath
as Drasa
Directed by Scott Derrickson
as Margot
Directed by Mark Mylod
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Princess Peach (voice)
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026)
Performance score8.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Princess Peach (voice) gives Anya Taylor-Joy a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Furiosa
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
Performance score8.1
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Furiosa is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Princess Peach (voice)
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
Performance score8.1
The Super Mario Bros. Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Princess Peach (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Drasa
The Gorge (2025)
Performance score8.0
The Gorge asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Drasa is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Princess Peach (voice)
Start here. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is the clearest statement of what Anya Taylor-Joy does — accessible, 98 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Anya at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
The Menu (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of The Menu but asks for a colder reading of it.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
Keeps the adventure register of The Super Mario Bros. Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Gorge (2025)
Keeps the science fiction register of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Aaron Horvath
Director
2 films together
Notably The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Mark Waters
Director
1 film together
Notably Vampire Academy
Vikram Gandhi
Director
1 film together
Notably Barry
Luke Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Morgan
M. Night Shyamalan
Director
1 film together
Notably Split
Cory Finley
Director
1 film together
Notably Thoroughbreds
Garret Price
Director
1 film together
Notably Love, Antosha
Matt Lipsey
Director
1 film together
Notably Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
Marjane Satrapi
Director
1 film together
Notably Radioactive
Josh Boone
Director
1 film together
Notably The New Mutants
Eoin Macken
Director
1 film together
Notably Here Are the Young Men
Edgar Wright
Director
1 film together
Notably Last Night in Soho
David O. Russell
Director
1 film together
Notably Amsterdam
Mark Mylod
Director
1 film together
Notably The Menu
George Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Loïc Prigent
Director
1 film together
Notably Her Dior
Scott Derrickson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Gorge
Denis Villeneuve
Director
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Three
Andy Serkis
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Aaron Horvath
Director
2 films together · 8.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Super Mario Galaxy MovieScott Derrickson
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The GorgeGeorge Miller
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Furiosa: A Mad Max SagaGarret Price
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love, AntoshaEdgar Wright
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Last Night in SohoM. Night Shyamalan
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SplitMark Mylod
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The MenuMarjane Satrapi
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RadioactiveCory Finley
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ThoroughbredsMatt Lipsey
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for ChristmasMark Waters
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Vampire AcademyDavid O. Russell
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AmsterdamJosh Boone
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The New MutantsLuke Scott
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MorganVikram Gandhi
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BarryEoin Macken
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Here Are the Young MenAndy Serkis
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for GollumDenis Villeneuve
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dune: Part ThreeLoïc Prigent
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Her DiorSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
4 wins · 1 nomination
1 win · 1 nomination · latest 2021
as Actor
as Actor
1 win · latest 2021
as Actor
1 win · latest 2021
as Actor
1 win · latest 2015
as Actor
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
as Princess Peach (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
as Princess Peach (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
as Princess Peach (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Vampire Academy
as Feeder Girl
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
as Princess Peach (voice)
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Anya Taylor-Joy has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
9 catalogue titles in comedy, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
as Princess Peach (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Last Night in Soho
as Sandie
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Radioactive
as Irène Aged 18
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Witch
as Thomasin
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
as Furiosa
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
as Furiosa
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
as Princess Peach (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
as Princess Peach (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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