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Aaron Johnson (actor)

Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Aaron Taylor-Johnson SDCC 2014 (cropped).jpg
Taylor-Johnson at the 2014 San Diego Comic Con International promoting
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Born Aaron Perry Johnson
(1990-06-13) 13 June 1990 (age 26)
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
Nationality British
Other names Aaron Johnson
Occupation Actor
Years active 2001–present
Spouse(s) Sam Taylor-Johnson (m. 2012)
Children 2

Aaron Taylor-Johnson (born Aaron Perry Johnson; 13 June 1990) is an English actor, best known as the title character in the Kick-Ass films and Quicksilver in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015).

Taylor-Johnson began performing at age six and has appeared in films such as Shanghai Knights (2003), playing a young Charlie Chaplin, The Illusionist (2006) and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008). He had his breakthrough performance in the John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy (2009). He went on to portray Ben in the Oliver Stone-directed crime thriller Savages (2012), Russian aristocrat Count Vronsky in Joe Wright's adaptation of Anna Karenina (2012) and Lt. Brody in Gareth Edwards' monster movie Godzilla (2014). For his performance as psychopathic drifter Ray Marcus in Tom Ford's thriller Nocturnal Animals (2016), he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

He was initially credited as Aaron Johnson, but began being billed as Aaron Taylor-Johnson in 2013, with Kick-Ass 2. He had legally changed his name after marrying director Sam Taylor-Wood.


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