Anya Taylor-Joy attended the Apple TV Press Day in Santa Monica, California on Tuesday after a robber who broke into her London mansion was jailed.
The actress, 29, who stepped out for the first time since the news, wore a leather pencil skirt which featured a thigh-high leg slit, as she walked the red carpet.
She teamed the high-waisted number with a fitted long sleeved top and topped off her outfit with a pair of strappy heels.
Anya will star star in the upcoming television drama series, Lucky, which will air on the streamer in July.
Walking the red carpet at the Barker Hangar, she was joined by her co-star Timothy Olyphant at the event.
Lucky is based on Marissa Stapley’s novel of the same name, follows the titular character (played by Anya) as she attempts to move on from a life of crime.
Anya Taylor-Joy attended the Apple TV Press Day in Santa Monica, California on Tuesday after a robber who broke into her London mansion was jailed
The actress, 29, wore a leather pencil skirt which featured a thigh-high leg slit, as she posed for photos on the red carpet.
The series also boasts Golden Globe Award-winner Annette Bening and Oscar-nominee Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor in its star-studded cast list.
Anya’s outing come as a crowbar-wielding robber, who subjected her to a terrifying ordeal when he broke into the luxury home in London, was jailed.
Career criminal Kirk Holdrick, 43, was one of two masked intruders who smashed their way into the lavish property in February 2023, in a raid which may have been targeted at the Hollywood star.
Taylor-Joy’s rockstar husband, Malcolm McRae, confronted the intruders then barricaded himself and his wife, 29, inside one of the bedrooms.
He was armed only with a lamp as Holdrick and his accomplice attempted to prise open the bedroom door with a crowbar.
But McRae managed to scare off the burglars by shouting out, ‘I have a gun, I have a gun’.
The way the burglars tried to break into the bedroom, rather than simply stealing expensive items, suggested they were intending to target Anya personally, prosecutors believed.
After McRae’s gun claim, Holdrick and his partner in crime fled the home empty-handed.
She teamed the high-waisted number with a fitted long sleeved top and topped off her outfit with a pair of strappy heels
Anya will star star in the upcoming television drama series, Lucky, which will air on the streamer in July
Walking the red carpet at the Barker Hangar, she was joined by her co-star Timothy Olyphant at the event
Lucky is based on Marissa Stapley’s novel of the same name, follows the titular character (played by Anya) as she attempts to move on from a life of crime
Filming began on the show in Las Vegas on Monday but is set to move to Los Angeles in coming days to bring production back following the January wildfires (Anya pictured in the series)
Holdrick, who previously briefly dated The Only Way Is Essex cast member Hannah Voyan, was jailed for life in 2005 for armed robberies on a security van transporting cash and a jewellers.
He was recalled to prison to continue serving his life sentence after his latest offences and last November was jailed for 12 years for holding a mother and daughter at gunpoint during a terrifying £220,000 Sandbanks mansion raid.
Holdrick has now been handed a further three-year prison sentence for the burglary involving Taylor-Joy and her husband.
Just nine days after the London raid, Holdrick struck again, in a second home invasion involving a woman and her daughter held at gunpoint, tied up and threatened with violence.
He and accomplice, Ashley Fulton, disguised themselves as police officers for the raid in millionaire’s playground Sandbanks, overlooking Poole harbour in Dorset, before threatening to burn the daughter with an iron and shoot her dead in front of her mother if she did not open the family safe.
The Golden Globe winning actress, 29, whose work includes award-winning Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit, the Dune movies, and Peaky Blinders, put on a brave face as she appeared on the Baftas red carpet just a week after her ordeal.
She was staying at the London property on February 12, 2023, with her husband and his More bandmate, Kane Ritchotte, when the break-in happened at about 1am.
Anya’s outing come as a crowbar-wielding robber, who subjected her to a terrifying ordeal when he broke into the luxury home in London, has been jailed
They heard the glass in a side door of the home being smashed and McRae went to investigate.
When he saw Holdrick and another man – both wearing balaclavas and gloves – forcing their way into the property, the singer and guitarist shouted ‘hey, stop’ before retreating.
He ran back to the bedroom where he and his wife were staying, locked the door and told Taylor-Joy to hide behind the bed.
McRae then armed himself with a lamp as the intruders started to force the bedroom door open with a crowbar.
The rockstar shouted out that he had a gun, the thieves appeared to stop their efforts to wrench open the door, and after a brief discussion among themselves about a gun, they fled.
When Metropolitan Police officers arrived, Taylor-Joy and McRae were still barricaded inside the bedroom, with damage done to the door frame.
The couple told police they had been traumatised by the ordeal, and feared being targeted again in future.