Aaron Taylor-johnson Biography

CIVIL STATUS
Professions Actor, Musician, Producer more
Birth Name Aaron Perry Taylor-Johnson
Nationality British
Born 13 June 1990 (High Wycombe, England)
BIOGRAPHY
Born in High Wycombe, England, Aaron Johnson began his career at a very young age, acting in two plays: Macbeth in 1999 and All My Sons in 2000. Encouraged by his older sister, Gemma Johnson, Aaron learned acting, singing and dancing at the famous Jackie Palmer Stage School. The actor took his first steps in the audiovisual industry by starring in commercials.

Johnson then alternated between supporting roles, both for the small (the series Feather Boy in 2004) and for the big screen (Shanghai Kid II in 2003 in which he played Charlie Chaplin as a young man, Dead Cool in 2004), in both English and American productions.

In 2006, Johnson played a young Edward Norton in The Illusionist, where he reunited with actor Rufus Sewell, with whom he had starred in the play Macbeth. He continued with Talk to Me and Nearly Famous, two British series in which he played a central role. In parallel to his career as a television actor, the young man did not abandon the seventh art, as he proved with the “teenage” comedy The Diary of Georgia Nicholson in 2008 and the drama The Greatest in 2009.

It was that same year that Aaron Johnson’s career began to take shape with notable roles. First, the actor was chosen by Sam Taylor-Wood (his partner in real life) to play John Lennon as a young man in Nowhere Boy. Johnson made a name for himself in this role, and devoted himself more and more to film.

The actor established himself as Matthew Vaughn’s superhero in Kick-Ass in 2010, mixing offbeat comedy and action. This film quickly became a cult film and propelled Aaron Johnson to the rank of world star. The same year, the actor changed register by playing a psychopathic and manipulative teenager in the thriller Chatroom, directed by Hideo Nakata, the director of Ring.

The man who claims to be influenced by actor Daniel Day-Lewis then misses the opportunity to become Spiderman by being stolen by Andrew Garfield for The Amazing Spider-Man. Johnson starred alongside Glenn Close in 2011’s Albert Nobbs, then joined Oliver Stone in his Savages (2012).

In this violent thriller in which two young men and their girlfriend are confronted by a cartel, Aaron Johnson stars alongside Taylor Kitsch, John Travolta, Blake Lively, Salma Hayek and Benicio Del Toro. The same year, the actor also starred in Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina, a new adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novel.

At 23 years old, Johnson is already the father of two daughters. The Hollywood wunderkind then puts on his tights and mask for Jeff Wadlow’s Kick-Ass 2, then faces off against Godzilla directed by Gareth Edwards (II). He also joined the very lucrative MCU via the character of Quicksilver, which allowed him to star in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and especially Avengers: Age of Ultron.

In 2016, he surprised everyone by playing a disturbing thug in the thriller Nocturnal Animals, opposite Jake Gyllenhaal. Less active than in his early days, Aaron Johnson still plays solid characters in the historical film Outlaw King, the war thriller The Wall and especially the drama A Million Little Pieces, in which he plays a drug addict trying to wean himself off in a center.

Also of note are his participation in Christopher Nolan’s brilliant Tenet, as well as the crazy action film Bullet Train, led by Brad Pitt.