Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Taylor-Johnson in 2022
Born	Aaron Perry Johnson (1990-06-13) 13 June 1990 (age 35) High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1996–present
Spouse	Sam Taylor-Johnson ​ (m. 2012)​
Children	2

Aaron Perry Taylor-Johnson (né Johnson; born 13 June 1990) is an English actor.^[1] His accolades include a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for two British Academy Film Awards and a British Independent Film Award.

As a child actor, Taylor-Johnson performed 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-Wood whom he married in 2012, adding her surname. He gained recognition for his portrayal of the title character in Kick-Ass (2010) and its sequel Kick-Ass 2 (2013), as well as performances in the crime thriller Savages (2012), period drama Anna Karenina (2012), and monster film Godzilla (2014).

Taylor-Johnson next portrayed the Marvel Cinematic Universe character Pietro Maximoff in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). For playing a psychopathic drifter in the thriller film Nocturnal Animals (2016), he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. He has since appeared in the action films Tenet (2020), Bullet Train (2022) and The Fall Guy (2024), as well as the horror film Nosferatu (2024).