Aaron Johnson

Aaron Johnson (born 13 June 1990) is an English actor whose professional work includes performances on stage, television, and in feature films. He began performing at age six, and appeared in films such as Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging and The Illusionist before graduating to starring roles in films such as Nowhere Boy, in which he played John Lennon, and the superhero movie Kick-Ass.

Johnson was born 13 June 1990 in Holmer Green, Buckinghamshire, England, the son of a homemaker mother and a civil engineer father. It was announced on 31 October 2009, that Johnson was engaged to filmmaker Sam Taylor-Wood, his director on Nowhere Boy. As of January 2010, Taylor-Wood is pregnant with the couple’s first child.

Johnson began acting at the age of 6, performing as the son of Macduff alongside Rufus Sewell’s Macbeth in 1999, and in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons in 2000. His TV roles have included his turn as Niker in the BBC’s 2004 adaptation of the novel Feather Boy and Owen in the E4 series, Nearly Famous. In 2003, Johnson appeared as a young Charlie Chaplin in Shanghai Knights. In 2006, Johnson appeared in The Illusionist, appearing in the flashback scenes in the beginning of the film as Edward Norton’s character as a teenager, Eduard Abramovicz.