Noah Taylor

Noah Taylor is one of those actors where you might not know the name right away, but the second you see the face you go "oh, THAT guy" — and then you realize he's been quietly nailing it for decades. His turn as the teenage David Helfgott in Shine was genuinely stunning, all raw nerve and strange beauty, and it's a little wild that it didn't make him a household name overnight. Instead he carved out this brilliant niche as the go-to guy for unsettling oddball characters — Locke in Game of Thrones gave me the creeps in the best possible way, and his Darby Sabini in Peaky Blinders had real menace behind those calm eyes. That 1999 Sitges Best Actor win feels like the festival world quietly acknowledging what the mainstream kept overlooking. A craftsman's craftsman.

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Name (English)

Noah Taylor

Name (Japanese)

ノア・テイラー

Reading

のあ・ていらー

Born

September 4, 1969 (age 57)

Origin

London, United Kingdom

Occupation

actor / screenwriter / film actor / television actor / voice actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rooster

High school

University High School

University

University High School

Awards & achievements

• 1999 Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%20Taylor
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8E%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q563177

Tags

• actor
• screenwriter
• film actor

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.