Aaron Perry TaylorJohnson né Johnson born 13 June 1990 is an English actor He is best known for his portrayal of the title character in KickAss 2010 and its 2013 sequel and the Marvel Cinematic Universe MCU character Pietro Maximoff in Captain America The Winter Soldier 2014 and Avengers Age of Ultron 2015 TaylorJohnson began performing at age six and has appeared in such films as Shanghai Knights 2003 The Illusionist 2006 The Thief Lord 2006 and Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging 2008 He had his breakthrough performance in the John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy 2009 TaylorJohnson went on to portray Ben in the Oliver Stonedirected crime thriller Savages 2012 Russian aristocrat Count Vronsky in Joe Wrights adaptation of Anna Karenina 2012 and Lt Brody in Gareth Edwards monster movie Godzilla 2014 For his performance as psychopathic drifter Ray Marcus in Tom Fords thriller Nocturnal Animals 2016 he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role TaylorJohnson later starred as military commander Ives in Christopher Nolans spy action epic Tenet 2020 and assassin Tangerine in David Leitchs thriller Bullet Train 2022 As part of Sonys SpiderMan Universe he will star as another Marvel character Kraven the Hunter in a 2023 selftitled film