How Queen's Gambit's Anya Taylor-Joy is now tipped for wider stardom

With her mesmerising stare and perfect features, she has become the breakout star of Lockdown 2. There is no doubt she’s going to be a massive star’ Anya Taylor as Beth Harmon in the Queen's Gambit Anya Taylor-Joy attending the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit Gala 2018 in New York, USA As well as serious themes, the seven-part series offers the escapism of glamorous locations – with tournaments in Las Vegas, Mexico City and Paris – and the delights of the period fashions that play such a key role in the storytelling. Anya Taylor-Joy looks radiant in a Prabal Gurung floral dress while leaving an interview in New York City ‘I didn’t really feel like I fitted in anywhere. ‘Her teachers recall a girl who was very dramatic and that was clearly her passion,’ said William Townend, bursar of the £15,000 Hill House prep school, which Anya attended when she first arrived in London. Actress Anya Taylor-Joy and her fiance actor Eoin Macken are seen out and about in Philadelphia 20 Oct 2017 By the time she was studying for her GCSEs, she was being home-schooled after what she describes as ‘a few mental-health hiccups’, but she was also on the verge of making inroads on the career she had set her heart on since she was a young girl – and which now seems to be reaping rewards.