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Noah

Taylor

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Male

04 September 1969

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London, England

Virgo

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Australian

Noah George Taylor (born 4 September 1969) is an English-born Australian actor.

Noah George Taylor (born September 4th, 1969) is a British-born Australian actor. Taylor, elder of two boys, was born in London, England, the son of Maggie, a journalist and book editor, and Paul Taylor, a copywriter and journalist. Taylor`s Australian parents returned to Australia when he was five, and he grew up in Clifton Hill and St. Kilda, Victoria, suburds of Melbourne. His parents divorced when he was 14. Taylor left both school and home at 16 with no intention of becoming an actor; a friend, however, suggested that he try theater as `something to do at the weekends`, and Taylor found the experience so enjoyable that he opted to make it his career. After performing in plays at St. Martin`s Youth Theater in South Yarra for a year, he gained the attention of director John Duigan, who cast him in the 1987 film The Year My Voice Broke, the first part of a planned trilogy. Taylor also appeared in its sequel, 1991`s Flirting; the third installment has not yet been filmed. Taylor first gained international attention the tormented young pianist David Helfgott in the 1996 film Shine. Taylor`s résumé includes action movies (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider), comedies (The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou), psychological thrillers (Vanilla Sky) and historical dramas (Max, in which he played the young Adolf Hitler). Taylor once commented in an interview that he was sick of acting out the nostalgic reminiscences of other people. He has done this in a number of films including The Nostradamus Kid which was based, apparently, on the memories of the Australian author Bob Ellis, and Almost Famous, based on the memories of the film`s writer and director, Cameron Crowe. He appeared in the video Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow - a song by Australian Group Nick Cave and the band The Bad Seeds. When not acting, Taylor draws and paints, and is also an accomplished musician, playing viola and French horn as a young teenager, and guitar from the age of 16. He plays the piano by ear. He has sung and played guitar in several of his bands, including Honkey Tonk Angels, Cardboard Box Man, Flipper and Humphrey, and The Thirteens, a country-western rock band described by Taylor as "three manic despressives playing sad angst and western music for sad people". He names Johnny Cash and Lou Reed as two of the artists he admires. Taylor currently lives in Brighton, East Sussex.

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