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Taylor-Johnson with wife Sam Taylor-Johnson in 2012, photo via Prphotos
Birth Name: Aaron Perry Johnson
Place of Birth: High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 13 June, 1990
Ethnicity: English, Ashkenazi Jewish, small amount of Irish
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, previously credited as Aaron Johnson, is a British actor. His roles include the films Tom & Thomas , Shanghai Knights , The Thief Lord , The Illusionist , Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging ; The Greatest (2009), Nowhere Boy , Kick-Ass , and its sequel; Chatroom , Albert Nobbs , Savages , Anna Karenina (2012), Godzilla (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron , Nocturnal Animals , The Wall (2017), Outlaw King , A Million Little Pieces , which he also co-wrote; Tenet , The King’s Man (2021), Bullet Train , The Fall Guy , Nosferatu , Kraven the Hunter (2024), 28 Years Later , and Fuze ; the series Feather Boy , I Shouldn’t Be Alive , Talk to Me , and Nearly Famous ; the made-for-tv movie Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars ; and the video game Kick-Ass: The Game .
He is the son of Sarah and Robert Johnson, a civil engineer. He is married to director and artist Sam Taylor-Johnson , with whom he has two children. The couple hyphenated their surnames together.
Aaron has mentioned that he is Jewish.
Aaron’s maternal grandfather is named James Collis.
Aaron’s maternal grandmother is Sarah Frankfort (the daughter of Alec Frankfort and Louisa Cushion). Sarah was born in Lambeth, London, England. Alec was a Jewish emigrant who was born in Russia. Louisa was the daughter of David Cushion, who had Irish ancestry, and of Ann Frances Robinson.
Source: Genealogy of Aaron Taylor-Johnson (focusing on his mother’s side) – https://www.geni.com