Noah Taylor

At 55 years old, Noah Taylor has this physical status:

Noah George Taylor (born 4 September 1969) is a British-Australian actor.

In the Australian cult film He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, he is best known for his appearances as teenage David Helfgott in Shine, Locke, HBO series Game of Thrones, Mr. Bucket in Charlie, and Danny's Mr. Bucket in My Hand.

In Max and Preacher, Taylor appeared as Adolf Hitler.

Early life

Emma (née Miller), a writer and book editor, and Paul Taylor, a copywriter and journalist, were born in London to Taylor, elder of two sons. When he was five years old, his parents returned to Australia, and he grew up in Clifton Hill and St Kilda, Melbourne suburbs.

After being involved in plays at St Martins Youth Arts Centre in South Yarra for a year, he piqued the interest of director John Duigan, who starred him in the 1987 film The Year My Voice Broke, the first part of a planned trilogy. Taylor appeared in its sequel, Flirting (1991), alongside Thandiwe Newton, Nicole Kidman, and Naomi Watts in supporting roles.

Personal life

Taylor draws and paints, is also a natural performer, playing viola and French horn as a young child, and guitar from the age of 16. He plays the piano by ear. Honky Tonk Angels, Cardboard Box Man, Flipper & Humphrey, Access Axis, and The Thirteens, a country-western rock band, have performed in several of his own bands, including Honky Tonk Angels, Cardboard Box Man, Flipper & Humphrey, Access Axis, and "three manic depressives playing sad angst and western music for sad people." Johnny Cash and Lou Reed are two of the artists he admires.

Dionne Harris, an Australian fashion designer, married Dionne Harris on November 14, 2012, a former fashion designer. Taylor lives in Brighton, East Sussex.

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Career

Taylor's debuts in the critically acclaimed The Year My Voice Broke and Flirting, as the traught young pianist David Helfgott in 1996's Shine. Taylor's résumé includes action films (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider), comedies (The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou), psychological thrillers (Vanilla Sky and Predestination) and historical dramas (Max, in which he played the young Adolf Hitler). In AMC's series Preacher, he also played Adolf Hitler.

In an interview, Taylor once said that he was sick of exorbiting other people's nostalgic memories. He has performed in a number of films, including The Nostradamus Kid, based on Robert Ellis' early life, He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, and Almost Famous, based on the film's writer and director, Cameron Crowe.

Taylor appeared in Simon Rumley's mystery thriller Red White & Blue, which had its world premiere in March 2010 as part of the SXSW Film Festival.

Taylor has appeared in a handful of music videos. In the video for Beargarden's album "The Finest Things," one of his first screen appearances appeared. Richard Lowenstein, who later starred Taylor in a supporting role in the film [Dogs in Space], was the subject of this video. He appeared in the film "Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow," a song by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, as well as the video for "M.O.R." Blur, a British alternative rock band, and he also appeared in the Alphaville film "Romeos" as a young Romeo.

He has also performed and recorded as a guitarist. He released a collection of Popular Music for All Peoples under the name 'C.B.M.' in 2001.' (Cardboard Box Man) and in 2011, an EP Live Free or Die! On Z-Man Records, Noah Taylor & the Sloppy Boys.

Taylor appeared in both the third and fourth seasons of HBO's epic fantasy series Game of Thrones, based on George R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire book series. Taylor portrays Locke, the original author of the book, who appears as a condensed version of several characters, most prominently the ruthless and sadistic mercenary leader Vargo Hoat.

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