Claim: Aaron Taylor-Johnson came into the spotlight with Nowhere Boy.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson -LRB- born Aaron Perry Johnson ; 13 June 1990 -RRB- is an English actor , best known as the title character in the Kick-Ass films and Quicksilver in Avengers : Age of Ultron -LRB- 2015 -RRB- .   Taylor-Johnson began performing at age six and has appeared in films such as Shanghai Knights -LRB- 2003 -RRB- , playing a young Charlie Chaplin , The Illusionist -LRB- 2006 -RRB- and Angus , Thongs and Perfect Snogging -LRB- 2008 -RRB- . He had his breakthrough performance in the John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy -LRB- 2009 -RRB- . He went on to portray Ben in the Oliver Stone-directed crime thriller Savages -LRB- 2012 -RRB- , Russian aristocrat Count Vronsky in Joe Wright 's adaptation of Anna Karenina -LRB- 2012 -RRB- and Lt. Brody in Gareth Edwards ' monster movie Godzilla -LRB- 2014 -RRB- . For his performance as psychopathic drifter Ray Marcus in Tom Ford 's thriller Nocturnal Animals -LRB- 2016 -RRB- , he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor -- Motion Picture and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role .   He was initially credited as Aaron Johnson , but began being billed as Aaron Taylor-Johnson in 2013 , with Kick-Ass 2 . He had legally changed his name after marrying director Sam Taylor-Wood .