Aaron Perry Taylor-Johnson is an English actor, who is best known for his role as David "Dave" Lizewski/Kick-Ass in the 2010 superhero action-comedy film Kick-Ass and its 2013 sequel. He has also starred in the films Savages, Anna Karenina, Albert Nobbs, Nowhere Boy, and Godzilla.
For Disney, he played Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver in the 2014 Marvel action film Captain America: The Winter Soldier (as a cameo in the post-credits scene) and the 2015 Marvel action film Avengers: Age of Ultron. He also played Arche Reid in in the 2021 Fox film The King's Man. He also portrayed Charlie Chaplin in the 2004 Touchstone Pictures film Shanghai Knights.
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- Aaron Taylor-Johnson was uncredited for his appearance in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
- He starred alongside Scarlet Witch actress Elizabeth Olsen in the 2014 film Godzilla, where they played husband and wife.
- He starred in Kick-Ass alongside Evan Peters, the actor who played the X-Men Cinematic Universe version of Quicksilver.
- He shares the same birthday of fellow MCU actors Chris Evans and Elizabeth Oslen, albeit nine and four years apart, respectively.