“There’s a beauty in being anonymous,” she told The Guardian in 2018. “I’m quite a private person.” Even as the 25-year-old Taylor-Joy has found greater and greater success—including her new starring role in the highly anticipated horror flick Last Night in Soho, which debuted in theaters on Fri., Oct. 29—she’s still managed to live up to that beautiful ideal with a string of low-profile liaisons that she’s adeptly kept out of the spotlight; in fact, even when a photog manages to shoot a pic of her with a new man, there’s rarely any proof to confirm whether or not they’re actually an item. Here’s what we know about Anya Taylor-Joy’s dating life.
Does Anya Taylor-Joy have a boyfriend?
Signs point to yes. In May 2021, Taylor-Joy was photographed kissing and holding hands with actor/musician Malcolm McRae on the streets of New York City, right around the time she hosted Saturday Night Live. They were likewise caught canoodling in Venice in September 2021—which helped squash rumors at the time that she was seeing her Last Night in Soho costar, former The Crown lead MattSmith. Who’s McRae? Well, the 27-year-old has got a couple small acting credits on IMDb. He’s also one half of the two-man group More along with Kane Ritchotte (who used to be in Portugal The Man). More dropped an EP release titled 1/2 in the summer of 2021.
Is Anya Taylor-Joy engaged?
No, but rumor has it that she was once upon a time to Irish actor Eoin Macken. Way back in 2016, Macken wrote on Instagram about Taylor-Joy, “Every now and again you work with people that transcend how you see things. @anyataylorjoy is one of those people - this girl got skills.” They made more appearances on one another’s Instagram accounts in 2017; then in 2018, they costarred in the short film Crossmaglen. Around then, Taylor-Joy started to be photographed in public with a diamond sparkler on her left-hand ring finger, but neither she nor Macken ever confirmed their engagement and it seems they’ve since broken up, while the bling is likewise long gone. Still, it seems the split was amicable, as Taylor-Joy appeared in Macken’s directorial debut, the 2020 feature film, Here Are the Young Men.
Who else has Anya Taylor-Joy dated?
Back in May 2020,Taylor-Joy was snapped walking down the street in London with photographer Ben Seed. Gossip sites quickly dubbed Seed her boyfriend, but there’s been no evidence of a romance since then, nor have there been any reports (anonymously-sourced or otherwise) that the two are definitely coupled up. Besides that, your guess is as good as ours! No matter how much you Google, there’s pretty much no public info about other boyfriends Taylor-Joy may have had. It could be that being someone’s girlfriend in real life holds as little appeal to her as playing a typical girlfriend role onscreen. As she also told The Guardian back in 2018, “Whenever I’ve got a girlfriend role, I’ve sent it back being like ‘Eh? Why?’” Next, see our Golden Globes 2021 predictions.
