The Queen’s Gambit star Anya Taylor-Joy is celebrating a money-spinning year after she raked in more than £500,000 from the show.
The Netflix series was one of the hits of lockdown and prompted a sudden interest in chess.
And it was also good for the 24-year-old star’s bank balance. Books filed for her firm Scarlett Joy Ltd show it has cash reserves of £645,412 for 2020 – that’s up from £148,477 in 2019.
She also handed over £97,300 to The Treasury in Corporation Tax meaning she earned more than £500,000 in the 12 months to the end of March 2020.
And Anya – who has British-Argentine-US citizenship – also won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Limited Series this month.
The Fifties drama was addictive and chic as viewers got swept along in the rags-to-riches tale of chess prodigy Beth Harmon.
Fans have been left disappointed at the news that there are no discussions for a series two. But Anya – who stars in Peaky Blinders – has dropped huge hints about what path she’d like her character to choose should there be a much-anticipated next instalment.
Anya’s character starts out as an orphaned girl from Kentucky who discovers an incredible talent for chess, while developing a dependency on tranquilizers and pills at an early age.
The Queen’s Gambit series finale sees her win at her career – becoming a world-famous chess player – and away from the board game, also beating her addiction demons.
Yet Miami-born Anya has teased at further plotlines for Beth, and told Deadline: “It’s so surreal and very wonderful that people want a second season, because 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 how Beth would be as a mother, now that she’s sober and more cognisant of the demons that pull her down.”
The Netflix series is based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Walter Tevis, and the limited series covered all of the books plot.
