Where it all began for blockbuster star (From Bucks Free Press)
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Where it all began for blockbuster star
10:20am Sunday 30th September 2012 in News By Rebecca Cain
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, pictured centre
AARON Taylor-Johnson is currently starring in blockbuster Anna Karenina, alongside actress Keira Knightley.
But as the picture shows every actor has to start somewhere. He was a BTEC National Diploma in Performing Arts (Dance) student at Amersham and Wycombe College from 2006-2007.
Performing arts programme leader Rebecca Smedley-Shulman said: "It was clear back then that with numerous TV and theatre performances under his belt, he was destined for a career in the spotlight."
He began performing at the age of six and made his first TV appearance in 2004.
Rebecca added: "Aaron was a model student who worked really hard and achieved a great deal while he was with us. He was very humble about his television success too. Students would say to him, ‘I saw you on TV last night,’ but he would just pass it off as if it wasn’t anything special."
After leaving College he appeared in Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, and had already appeared in The Illusionist; Aaron then went on to play the star role in Nowhere Boy, in which he portrayed John Lennon. Aaron plays the role of Count Vronsky in the movie Anna Karenina in which he forms a loving relationship with Russian socialite, Anna Karenina (Keira Knightley), when she leaves her husband Alexei (Jude Law) for him.
Phredd says...
3:22pm Mon 1 Oct 12
It began at a Wycombe stage school group when he was much younger in the late 1990s. He performed in the publicity film that was made for Millenium Dome in 1999.
At that time he was also attending a local gymnastics club to help improve the skills he would need for an acting career - they have a picture of him getting a medal at a regional gymnastics competition in 1999 also.