Aaron Perry Taylor-Johnson is an English actor. He is best known for his portrayal of the title character in Kick-Ass and its 2013 sequel, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe character Pietro Maximoff in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Taylor-Johnson began performing at age six and has appeared in such films as Shanghai Knights, The Illusionist, The Thief Lord, and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. He had his breakthrough performance in the John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy. Taylor-Johnson went on to portray Ben in the Oliver Stone-directed crime thriller Savages, Russian aristocrat Count Vronsky in Joe Wright's adaptation of Anna Karenina, and Lt. Brody in Gareth Edwards' monster movie Godzilla. For his performance as psychopathic drifter Ray Marcus in Tom Ford's thriller Nocturnal Animals, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
The protagonist in the 2010 action comedy Kick-Ass and its 2013 sequel, Kick-Ass 2, made him a household name in the United States. In the 2015 blockbuster Avengers: Age of Ultron, he played Quicksilver. For his supporting part in the 2016 film Nocturnal Anima, he won a Golden Globe.
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