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Actor
Gender
Male
Birthday
13 June
Location
England, United Kingdom
Edit pageAaron Taylor Johnson
Biography
Aaron Perry Taylor-Johnson (né Johnson; born 13 June 1990) is an English actor. He is best known for his portrayal of the title character in Kick-Ass (2010) and its 2013 sequel, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe character Pietro Maximoff in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015).
Taylor-Johnson began performing as a child and appeared in films including Shanghai Knights (2003), The Illusionist (2006), and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008). He had his breakthrough performance as John Lennon in the biopic Nowhere Boy (2009), directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, whom he married in 2012.
He followed this with roles in the crime thriller Savages (2012), the period drama Anna Karenina (2012), and the monster film Godzilla (2014).
For his performance as a psychopathic drifter in the thriller film Nocturnal Animals (2016), Taylor-Johnson won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. He has since appeared in the action films Tenet (2020) and Bullet Train (2022).
Taylor-Johnson was born Aaron Perry Johnson in High Wycombe on 13 June 1990, the son of housewife Sarah and civil engineer Robert Johnson. He is Jewish, and has a sister named Gemma who later had a small role in his film Tom & Thomas (2002).
He was educated at Holmer Green Senior School, and attended the Jackie Palmer Stage School in High Wycombe between 1996 and 2008, studying drama, tap, jazz, acrobatics, and singing.
After Johnson met filmmaker Sam Taylor-Wood in 2009 on the set of their film Nowhere Boy, when he was 18 and she was 42, the two began dating and were married in the chapel at Babington House on 21 June 2012.
They subsequently changed their surnames to Taylor-Johnson. They have two daughters, and he is the stepfather of her two daughters from a previous marriage.
Taylor-Johnson was named one of GQ's 50 best-dressed British men in 2015.
