And something tells us that it will not be the last.
Anya Taylor-Joy is officially a winner of the best acting award thanks to the Netflix sensation “The Queen’s Gambit”, which earned the rising actress the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Limited Series. Taylor-Joy won Globo over the other nominees Cate Blanchett (“Mrs. America”), Daisy Edgar-Jones (“Normal people”), Shira Haas (“Unorthodox”) and Nicole Kidman (“The Undo”). The performer also competed for the second Golden Globe at the 78th annual ceremony with her performance in the film “Emma”, for which she competed in the category of Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical.
Prior to the 2021 Golden Globe, Taylor-Joy had a Gotham award on her resume and some critical awards. The actress took home the Gotham Award for Best Actor at the 2016 ceremony for her performance in Robert Eggers’ “The Witch”. Despite facing stiff competition from names like Nicole Kidman (who was competing for her fifth Golden Globe), Taylor-Joy was widely seen as the vanguard, given the highly praised reviews and successful streaming numbers of “The Queen’s Gambit” Netflix announced in late November that the series was viewed by 62 million households during the first 28 days of release, making it the streamer’s biggest release for a limited series.
“The Queen’s Gambit” stars Taylor-Joy as Beth Harmon, a chess prodigy who must overcome addiction struggles to become the best chess player in the world. In an interview with IndieWire earlier this year, Taylor-Joy said the script for “The Queen’s Gambit” immediately resonated with her.
“In our essence, we are very similar,” Taylor-Joy said of her and Beth Harmon. “And I think that from the second I met [Beth], it was a strange pain. It was a pain of, ‘Oh God, it hurts so much. And it hurts a lot because I know it’s true. And what you need to learn, I need to learn. ‘”
While Taylor-Joy won the Best Actress award in the Limited Series category, the door remains open for her to return as Beth Harmon in a potential second season of “The Queen’s Gambit”. As the actress told Deadline, “It’s so surreal and wonderful that people want a second season. We never thought about it, there was no discussion about it. That said, never say ‘never’ in Hollywood. It would be very interesting to see what Beth would be like as a mother, now that she is sober and more aware of the demons that pull her down. “
With a Golden Globe under his belt, Taylor-Joy moves on to the Screen Actors Guild Awards. The actress will certainly be an Emmy candidate at the end of the year for “O Gambito da Rainha”. The series is now being streamed on Netflix.
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