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Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Alfie Williams in 28 Years Later (2025)

Nicholas Hoult and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Nosferatu (2024)

Willem Dafoe, Ralph Ineson, Emma Corrin, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Nosferatu (2024)

Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Taylor Kitsch in Savages (2012)

Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Brian Tyree Henry in Bullet Train (2022)

Brad Pitt and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Bullet Train (2022)

Aaron Taylor-Johnson in A Million Little Pieces (2018)

Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Outlaw King (2018)

Sam Spruell, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Billy Howle in Outlaw King (2018)

Tony Curran, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chris Pine, and Chris Fulton in Outlaw King (2018)

Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Chris Pine in Outlaw King (2018)

Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Chloë Grace Moretz in Kick-Ass 2 (2013)

Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Nocturnal Animals (2016)

John Cena and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in The Wall (2017)

Keira Knightley and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Anna Karenina (2012)

Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Nocturnal Animals (2016)

Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Alicia Vikander in Anna Karenina (2012)

Elizabeth Olsen and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

James Spader, Chris Evans, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

Seamus McGarvey, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Gareth Edwards in Godzilla (2014)

Elizabeth Olsen and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Godzilla (2014)

Bryan Cranston and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Godzilla (2014)

Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Kick-Ass 2 (2013)

Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse in Kick-Ass 2 (2013)

Jim Carrey, Lindy Booth, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Kick-Ass 2 (2013)

Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Christopher Mintz-Plasse in Kick-Ass 2 (2013)

Jim Carrey and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Kick-Ass 2 (2013)

Aaron Taylor-Johnson is an English stage, television, and film actor.

He was born Aaron Perry Johnson in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, to Sarah and Robert Johnson, a civil engineer. He has a sister, Gemma Johnson, who had a small role in his movie Tom & Thomas (2002). Aaron is of English-Russian Jewish descent.

He began performing at age six, appearing in plays like Macbeth and All My Sons. He worked frequently on television as a young actor, having roles in the TV films The Apocalypse (2002), Behind Closed Doors (2003), The Best Man (2006), and Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars (2007), and series The Bill (1984), Family Business (2003), Feather Boy (2004), Casualty (1986), Talk to Me (2007), and Nearly Famous (2007). He made his feature debut in the British film Tom & Thomas (2002), where he played the dual title roles. His first American film was the sequel Shanghai Knights (2003), playing a child version of Charles Chaplin, and his early film credits also include Dead Cool (2004), The Thief Lord (2006), and The Illusionist (2006), where he played a young version of Edward Norton's character Eisenheim.

Aaron became known in England after playing a leading role in the film Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008), opposite Georgia Groome. He then co-starred with Carey Mulligan in the American drama The Greatest (2009), played John Lennon in the biography Nowhere Boy (2009), and had the lead role of a teenage would-be superhero, Dave Lizewski, in the action superhero riff Kick-Ass (2010), which introduced him to a wide American audience.

After appearing in the thriller Chatroom (2010), Aaron had a large part in the Irish-set drama Albert Nobbs (2011), and co-starred with Taylor Kitsch and Blake Lively in Oliver Stone's California-based action-thriller Savages (2012). Also in 2012, he played Keira Knightley's character's forbidden love interest, Count Vronsky, in the adaptation Anna Karenina (2012), set in Russia.

After reprising his role in the sequel Kick-Ass 2 (2013), Aaron had starring roles in his two biggest films to date, the blockbusters Godzilla (2014), as soldier Ford Brody, and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), as Pietro Maximoff (known as Quicksilver in the Marvel comic books). He first played Pietro in a mid-credits scene in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014). Next, he won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the shady Ray in the drama Nocturnal Animals (2016), and co-starred with John Cena in the war thriller The Wall (2017).

While filming Nowhere Boy (2009), Aaron began a relationship with the film's director, artist Sam Taylor-Wood. The two married in 2012, and blended their surnames together. Aaron began being credited as Aaron Taylor-Johnson, while Sam became known as Sam Taylor-Johnson. The couple has two children together, and Aaron is also stepfather to Sam's two daughters from her previous marriage.

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