Aaron Taylor-Johnson is one of the most popular and richest Movie Actor who was born on June 13, 1990 in High Wycombe, England, United Kingdom. English film actor who became known to American audiences as the protagonist in the 2010 action-comedy Kick-Ass and its 2013 sequel, Kick-Ass 2. He appeared as Quicksilver in the 2015 blockbuster Avengers: Age of Ultron. He won a Golden Globe for his supporting role in the 2016 film Nocturnal Animals.
He was cast in Kick-Ass with Nicolas Cage.
Taylor-Johnson began acting at the age of six. On stage, he appeared in a London production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, playing the son of Macduff alongside Rufus Sewell, who played Macbeth, in 1999. He appeared in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons in 2000. His television roles have included Niker in the 2004 BBC adaptation of the novel Feather Boy, Aaron in Danny Brocklehurst’s ITV1 serial Talk to Me, and Owen Stephens in Nearly Famous. In 2003, Taylor-Johnson appeared as a young Charlie Chaplin in Shanghai Knights, with Chaplin depicted as a member of a London gang of street thugs. In 2006, he appeared in The Illusionist, appearing in the early flashback scenes as Edward Norton’s character, Eduard Abramovicz, as a teenager. The scenes show the young Eduard as he first learns magic, and to do this, Johnson had to learn how to perform the ball trick displayed by his character. He learned how to perform the balancing of the egg on the stick, although that was effected mechanically. Also in 2006, he starred in the film The Thief Lord, as Prosper.
Aaron Perry Johnson was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, the son of Sarah and Robert Johnson, a housewife mother and civil engineer father, respectively. He has a sister, Gemma, who appeared in his film Tom & Thomas (2002) in a small role. He is Jewish. He was educated at Holmer Green Senior School and attended the Jackie Palmer Stage School in High Wycombe between 1996 and 2008, where he studied drama, tap, jazz, acrobatics, and singing.
He married director Sam Taylor-Wood in 2012, and the couple had two daughters.
