Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Birthday: 13 June 1990, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Birth Name: Aaron Perry Johnson
Height: 180 cm
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 background.He began performing at age ...
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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 background.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 San Giovanni - L'apocalisse (2000), 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).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. Show less «
[2014; on not being cast by wife Sam Taylor-Johnson in 50 Shades of Grey] I think it would have been...Show more »
[2014; on not being cast by wife Sam Taylor-Johnson in 50 Shades of Grey] I think it would have been the wrong kind of hype to bring towards us. It would have been kind of funny that this character that all these women fancy - he's one in a million - and my wife picks her husband to play the part? I would love to have done something together again, but it would not have been Fifty. We were both on the same page. I will watch the movie, though! Show less «
[2014] It was a lot of crazy shit I got up to for a couple years. I was pretty self-destructive at o...Show more »
[2014] It was a lot of crazy shit I got up to for a couple years. I was pretty self-destructive at one point. I used to smoke 30 [cigarettes] a day, used to fucking drink non-stop. I've always been able to be on the fucking edge - be on the line, but then pull myself back... [on how he used to pretend to be American when he went for, only revealing his true background afterwards] [There were] some interesting movies but a lot of TV. A lot of Nickelodeon bullshit. It was kind of like learning how to pull. It was like, how do you go into a bar and point out the fittest girl and then just go, 'I'll have her by the end of the night?' I was at that age where that was kind of... I stopped when I met [wife] Sam. Show less «
I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act...Show more »
I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me. Show less «
[on his facial hair being compared to that of a Hasidic Jew] That was nice because I have really cur...Show more »
[on his facial hair being compared to that of a Hasidic Jew] That was nice because I have really curly hair and also I'm Jewish. Show less «
[on the impressive physicality of co-star Chris Hemsworth] You look around the room and the only one...Show more »
[on the impressive physicality of co-star Chris Hemsworth] You look around the room and the only one who has an essentially otherworldly superhero physique is Chris Hemsworth. The size of his arms is like the size of my thighs. Just to be an actor and transform your physique and body to that level, essentially he's a God, and he's 6 foot 4, but he's such a great guy. Everyone is charming and brilliant, and a lot of fun, but you look around the room and you go 'well that guy is definitely the superhero'. Show less «
Jake [Gyllenhaal] is analytical and looks at things from every angle. He likes to be particular.
Jake [Gyllenhaal] is analytical and looks at things from every angle. He likes to be particular.
I don't marry myself into any genre. I ride on the back of the filmmaker and the character. I have t...Show more »
I don't marry myself into any genre. I ride on the back of the filmmaker and the character. I have to feel that character. I have to believe that character. Show less «
I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.
I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.
[on his costume for the Avengers] Because it's so early on [in the character development], I'm more ...Show more »
[on his costume for the Avengers] Because it's so early on [in the character development], I'm more of a civilian, more like Eastern European traveler picking up clothes as we go along. The way that we've designed picking out the costumes is with that thought in mind. Some of the things I wear is a lot more sporty, long-sleeve, a cycle top, compression T-shirts and things like that, to show that kind of physique and get a sense and idea of it. Show less «
Before the shoot [of Nocturnal Animals], I started smoking and drinking hard liquor, lots of Bourbon...Show more »
Before the shoot [of Nocturnal Animals], I started smoking and drinking hard liquor, lots of Bourbon. I wanted to look toxic from the inside out. I'd stay in character or I would at least stay in accent, that's for sure, because I didn't want to lose the West Texas thing. Show less «
[2014; on spending time with his children] I love the fucking music class. I'm the only dad there. I...Show more »
[2014; on spending time with his children] I love the fucking music class. I'm the only dad there. It's, like, mums and nannies. And you're clapping your hands. You're singing more than the kids are. Show less «
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Annabelle: Creation
IMDb: 7
2017
109 min
Country: United States
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Twelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into ...