Career
Taylor first gained international attention playing 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, a young David Helfgott in Shine, based on the book by Helfgott's sister, the protagonist in John Birmingham's memoir He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, and Almost Famous, based on the memories of the film's writer and director, Cameron Crowe.
He appears in the video Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow – a song by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, along with the video for M.O.R. by British alternative rock group Blur. Taylor stars in Simon Rumley's Mystery thriller Red White & Blue, who will earn his world premiere as part of the SXSW Film Festival in March 2010.
In 2011, he released his first EP, Live Free or Die!!!, with his band Noah Taylor & the Sloppy Boys on Z-Man Records.
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