MA's 2016 Acting Winners: Leading Actress
Tracking MA's Leading Actress Winners throughout 2016 and early 2017.
March Winner: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, 10 Cloverfield Lane.
April Winner: Anya Taylor-Joy, The VVitch.
Other Results: Leading Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Ensemble.
March Winner: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, 10 Cloverfield Lane.
April Winner: Anya Taylor-Joy, The VVitch.
Other Results: Leading Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Ensemble.
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Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy (born 16 April 1996) is a British-American actress. She is best known for her roles as Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit (2020), Thomasin in the period horror film The Witch (2015), as Casey Cooke in the horror-thriller Split (2016), and as Lily in the black comedy thriller Thoroughbreds (2017). She has been the recipient of the Cannes Film Festival's Trophée Chopard and was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award.
Anya was born in Miami, the youngest of six children. Her father is Scottish who was born in South America, and her mother is Spanish-English who was born in Zambia in Africa, to an English diplomat father and a Spanish mother from Barcelona. Anya lived her childhood between Argentina and England. Her father was a banker and a powerboat racer, and her mother is a psychologist. Anya was raised in Argentina until the age of six, then moved to London, where the family lived in Victoria. She attended Northlands School in Buenos Aires, then preparatory school Hill House and Queen's Gate School in London, and is also a former ballet dancer. Anya's dream of becoming an actress came when she was very young and it finally became possible when she was offered a modeling job. It wasn't long until Taylor-Joy received her first part in the Show Business. When she was fourteen, she used her savings to move to New York, and at 16, she left school to pursue acting.
Anya's outstanding performance as Thomasin in Robert Eggers' period horror film The Witch (2015), and the positive reviews it got at the Sundance festival revealed her incredible potential to the world; it was widely released and viewed in 2016. She then starred as the title character in the thriller Morgan (2016), directed Luke Scott and also starring Kate Mara. She also starred in Vikram Gandhi's film Barry, which focused on a young Barack Obama in 1981 New York City. Taylor-Joy played one of Obama's close friends. In 2017, she headlined M. Night Shyamalan's horror-thriller film Split (2016), playing Casey Cooke, a girl abducted by a mysterious man with split personalities. In 2019, she reprised her role as Casey in the film Glass. Anya was also the lead actress in the music video for Skrillex's remix of GTA's song Red Lips. She was nominated for the 2017 BAFTA Rising Star Award.
Taylor-Joy is attached to star in Nosferatu, a remake of the film of the same name, to be directed by Eggers in her third collaboration with him. She will also star in The Sea Change.April Results:
Anya Taylor-Joy, The VVitch - 5
Mary Elizabeth Winstead, 10 Cloverfield Lane - 3
Kate Lyn Sheil, Kate Plays Christine - 3
Sally Field, Hello, My Name is Dorris - 2
Krisha Faircild, Krisha - 1
Rebecca Hall, Christine - 1
Tina Fey, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot - 1- Actress
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Mary Elizabeth Winstead is an actress known for her versatile work in a variety of film and television projects. Possibly most known for her role as Ramona Flowers in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), she has also starred in critically acclaimed independent films such as Smashed (2012), for which she received an Independent Spirit Award nomination, as well as genre fare like Final Destination 3 (2006) and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof (2007).
Winstead was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina but largely raised in Sandy, Utah, which is where she discovered a love for the performing arts. She grew up training to be a ballerina and attended the Joffrey Ballet School training program at the age of 12. It was also around this time that she began to pursue a career in acting and soon started working steadily in television and film.
Winstead is also a recording artist and performs under the name "Got a Girl" alongside producer Dan the Automotor.March Results:
Mary Elizabeth Winstead, 10 Cloverfield Lane - 7
Anya Taylor-Joy, The VVitch - 4
Kate Lyn Sheil, Kate Plays Christine - 4
Emmanuelle Bercot, Mon Roi - 2
Morena Baccarin, Deadpool - 2
Ginnifer Goodwin, Zootopia - 1
Radha Mitchell, Looking for Grace - 1
Rebecca Hall, Christine - 1
Silje Storstein, Det som en gang var - 1
Tina Fey, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot - 1