Taron Egerton

<p>Taron David Egerton was born on November 10, 1989, in Birkenhead, Merseyside, and raised in Llanfairpwllgwyngyll on the Isle of Anglesey and Aberystwyth in Wales. Proudly identifying as Welsh, he graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London in 2012.</p><p>In 2014, director Matthew Vaughn cast Egerton in the breakout lead role of Gary 'Eggsy' Unwin in the action spy comedy <em>Kingsman: The Secret Service</em> alongside Colin Firth. The film was a global blockbuster, establishing Egerton as an international leading man and launching its sequel <em>Kingsman: The Golden Circle</em> (2017). He demonstrated his dramatic range portraying Olympic ski jumper Eddie Edwards in <em>Eddie the Eagle</em> (2016).</p><p>Egerton's artistic triumph came in 2019 with Dexter Fletcher's musical biopic <em>Rocketman</em>. Performing all of Elton John's vocals himself with astonishing emotional nuance, Egerton won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and received BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild nominations. In 2022, he received Primetime Emmy and SAG nominations for starring in Dennis Lehane's prison drama miniseries <em>Black Bird</em>.</p>