Updated On: 01 March, 2021 11:46 AM IST | Washington | ANI
Taylor-Joy had also earned a Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination. The series is based on Walter Tevis` 1983 novel of the same name. `The Queen`s Gambit` focuses on the fictional character Beth Harmon, a teen chess prodigy who takes on the best players in the world.

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Popular Netflix series `The Queen`s Gambit` took home two awards at this year`s Golden Globes. The show was named the best television limited series and its lead actor Anya Taylor-Joy won a Golden Globe for her powerful performance as an orphan-turned-chess prodigy.
Taylor-Joy played the role of Beth Harmon in the seven-part series which follows her meteoric rise through the chess world in the 1950s and `60s America as she becomes one of the fiercest players in the game.