Anya Taylor-Joy

Anya Taylor-Joy spoke only Spanish when her family moved from Buenos Aires to London when she was six. For two years, she has said, she refused to learn English, hoping that if she held out the family would go back to Argentina. She was bullied at school, felt like an outsider and left at sixteen. Not long afterward, a modeling agent spotted her walking her dog near Harrods in London, and within a few years she was starring in films.

She was born on April 16, 1996, in Miami, Florida, the youngest of six children, at 7:39 in the morning, a time Astro-Databank takes from a published source. Her chart has a striking concentration in the twelfth house: the Sun, Moon, Mars and Saturn, all in Aries, sit there. The twelfth house is the most private part of a chart, associated with solitude, inner worlds and feeling separate from others. Aries is the sign of courage and intensity. A twelfth-house Aries stellium describes someone with fierce inner drive who often feels like an outsider, and Taylor-Joy has described herself as a lonely, intense child who lived largely in her imagination.

Taurus is her rising sign, with Mercury in Taurus in the first house. Taurus gives a calm, sensual and striking physical presence, and her wide-set eyes and stillness on screen became her trademark. Her performances often hold back, letting the camera find the intensity underneath.

Her breakthrough came in Robert Eggers's horror film The Witch in 2015, playing a Puritan girl accused of witchcraft. M. Night Shyamalan cast her in Split, and she played Emma Woodhouse in Autumn de Wilde's Emma in 2020.

That same year she starred in the Netflix series The Queen's Gambit as Beth Harmon, an orphaned chess prodigy who struggles with addiction and loneliness. The role, about an isolated genius fighting her own demons, fit the twelfth-house Aries planets almost perfectly. The series became a global sensation, set off a boom in chess sales and won her a Golden Globe.

Venus in Gemini lies in her second house of personal values and possessions, suggesting a playful, curious relationship with beauty and style. Taylor-Joy has become a fashion figure, appearing on red carpets in dramatic, carefully chosen looks.

Uranus in Aquarius and Neptune in Capricorn fall in her tenth house of public image, describing a career that changes direction unexpectedly and an aura of mystery in the public eye. She went on to Last Night in Soho, The Menu and Furiosa, playing the young warrior of the Mad Max saga, and made a brief appearance in Dune: Part Two.

Jupiter in Capricorn sits in her ninth house of travel and wider horizons, and her life has been international from the start, spanning the Americas and Europe. She married the musician Malcolm McRae in 2022. The Aries planets in her twelfth house keep the fire hidden until the camera finds it.