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Noah Taylor(I)

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Noah Taylor at an event for Max (2002)
Australian actor Noah Taylor has a major role in the second season of the AMC series "Preacher." "No Small Parts" takes a look at his eclectic acting career.
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Noah George Taylor, the elder of two boys, was born in 1969 in London, England, to Maggie (Miller), a journalist and book editor, and Paul Taylor, a copywriter and journalist. His family lived in both England and New Zealand before returning to his parents' native Australia in 1974. His parents divorced when he was a teenager and his father remarried--to theatre publicist, Suzie Howie. Noah left home at age 16 before graduating from University High School in Melbourne when he fell into acting. He decided to pursue his craft at St. Martin's Youth Theater. Despite his intense studies, the remote, slim-framed actor did not make his professional theater debut until March 1997 with Chekhov's "The Seagull."

His work at St. Martin's led to an auspicious debut playing the painfully shy and sensitive teen Danny Embling in the coming-of-age film The Year My Voice Broke (1987). This affecting performance lost none of its heart-tugging appeal when the sequel Flirting (1991) came out four years later. Noah won awards for both films. Unconventionally typecast as the gawky, gloomy-eyed, somewhat manic depressive, directors started lining up to use the young actor. It all culminated in what is arguably the best known performance of his career--as the young, tortured genius, pianist David Helfgott, in Shine (1996). Working in tandem with Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush, who played Helfgott as an older adult, Noah's scenes with Armin Mueller-Stahl, who played the pianist's egregiously abusive father, were incredibly powerful and helped him to win the Film Critics Circle of Australia and Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival awards. The variety of Noah's performances have been stunning over the years. He played a young Adolf Hitler in the drama Max (2002), a "what-if" spin on Hitler growing up as an angry tortured artist instead of a Fascist dictator following World War I. He played the darkly humorous protagonist in He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (2001) and the titular Jewish outcast in Simon Magus (1999).

Music, songwriting and art have been other strong passions for Noah. In 1994 he became part of a band called "The Honky Tonk Angels. A singer-guitarist, included in this band were Noah's co-stars from previous movies Loene Carmen and Kym Wilson. He has also formed other bands with such names as Cardboard Box Man, Flipper & Humphrey and The Thirteens, a country-western rock group.

American audiences have taken an equal "shine" to Noah recently, particularly as the manager of Stillwater in the popular film Almost Famous (2000); as Bryce in the popular adventure film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and its sequel which both starring Angelina Jolie; a featured role in Vanilla Sky (2001) which starred Tom Cruise; and in the "Willy Wonka" extravaganza Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) as Mr. Bucket.
BornSeptember 4, 1969
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  • Awards
    • 6 wins & 11 nominations

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Noah Taylor in Vanilla Sky (2001)
Noah Taylor in No Small Parts (2014)
Nicole Kidman, Thandiwe Newton, and Noah Taylor in Flirting (1991)
Noah Taylor in Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Noah Taylor and Emily Blunt in Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Tom Cruise and Noah Taylor in Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Noah Taylor and Chin Han in Skyscraper (2018)
Adrian Holmes, Dwayne Johnson, Noah Taylor, Pablo Schreiber, and Chin Han in Skyscraper (2018)
Noah Taylor and Chin Han in Skyscraper (2018)
Tom Hardy and Noah Taylor in Peaky Blinders (2013)
Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Noah Taylor, Sharlto Copley, Babou Ceesay, and Armie Hammer in Free Fire (2016)
Brendan Gleeson, Noah Taylor, Aaron Neil, Robert Stevenson, Virgile Elana, Tom Davis, Stephen McDade, Emeson Nwolie, Jamie Demetriou, and Geoff Banks in Paddington 2 (2017)

Known for

Kate Hudson in Almost Famous (2000)
Almost Famous
7.9
  • Dick Roswell
  • 2000
Jeff Goldblum, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, Cate Blanchett, Bud Cort, Anjelica Huston, Michael Gambon, and Owen Wilson in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
7.2
  • Vladimir Wolodarsky
  • 2004
Shine (1996)
Shine
7.6
  • David Helfgott - Adolescent
  • 1996
Ethan Hawke in Predestination (2014)
Predestination
7.4
  • Mr. Robertson
  • 2014

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Actor

  • A Small Light (2023)
    A Small Light
    • Doctor Pfeffer
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2023
  • The Menkoff Method (2020)
    The Menkoff Method
    • Max Menkoff
    • 2020
  • Preacher (2016)
    Preacher
    • Adolf Hitler
    • TV Series
    • 2017–2019
  • Esme Creed-Miles and Adam Bessa in Hanna (2019)
    Hanna
    • Dr. Kunek
    • TV Series
    • 2019
  • Dwayne Johnson in Skyscraper (2018)
    Skyscraper
    • Mr. Pierce
    • 2018
  • Paddington 2 (2017)
    Paddington 2
    • Phibs
    • 2017
  • Yael Stone and Noah Taylor in Deep Water (2016)
    Deep Water
    • Nick Manning
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2016
  • Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Sharlto Copley, Armie Hammer, and Jack Reynor in Free Fire (2016)
    Free Fire
    • Gordon
    • 2016
  • The Windmill (2016)
    The Windmill
    • Nicholas Cooper
    • 2016
  • Sam Neill, Charles Dance, Miranda Richardson, Maeve Dermody, and Aidan Turner in And Then There Were None (2015)
    And Then There Were None
    • Thomas Rogers
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2015
  • Michael Madsen, Olesya Rulin, Sharlto Copley, Logan Browning, Susan Heyward, and Raul Casso in Powers (2015)
    Powers
    • Johnny Royalle
    • TV Series
    • 2015
  • Cillian Murphy, Paul Anderson, Sophie Rundle, Natasha O'Keeffe, Harry Kirton, and Finn Cole in Peaky Blinders (2013)
    Peaky Blinders
    • Darby Sabini
    • TV Series
    • 2014
  • Richard Roxburgh and Kodi Smit-McPhee in Maya the Bee Movie (2014)
    Maya the Bee Movie
    • Crawley (English version) (voice)
    • 2014
  • Lost in Karastan (2014)
    Lost in Karastan
    • Xan Butler
    • 2014
  • Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt in Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
    Edge of Tomorrow
    • Dr. Carter
    • 2014

Script and Continuity Department

  • He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (2001)
    He Died with a Felafel in His Hand
    • additional dialogue
    • 2001

Soundtrack

  • Road to Alice
    • performer: "Top Of The World"
    • Short
    • 1992
  • The Year My Voice Broke (1987)
    The Year My Voice Broke
    • performer: "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", "Corinna Corinna", "Get a little dirt on your hands"
    • 1987

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"Love Making"
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Free Fire
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Free Fire
The Double
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The Double
Do you love me like I love you - Tender Prey
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Do you love me like I love you - Tender Prey
San Diego Comic-Con Season 4 Trailer
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San Diego Comic-Con Season 4 Trailer
Official Trailer #3
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Official Trailer #3
Official Trailer #2
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Official Trailer #2
Season 1 New Trailer
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Season 1 New Trailer
Season 1 Trailer
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Season 1 Trailer
International Trailer
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International Trailer
Submarine: U.S. Trailer
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Submarine: U.S. Trailer

Personal details

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  • Height
    • 5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
  • Born
    • September 4, 1969
    • London, England, UK
  • Spouse
    • Dionne HarrisNovember 14, 2012 - present
  • Children
    • Martha
  • Parents
      Paul Taylor
  • Other works
    Appears in the 'Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' music video 'Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow'.
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    He draws and paints, and is also an accomplished musician, playing viola and French horn as a young teenager, and guitar from the age of 16.
  • Quotes
    Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.

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