Biography
Noah Taylor (born September 4, 1969) is an Australian actor. Born to Australian parents in London, Taylor migrated to Australia at age five. He left school at 16, and began his acting career in amateur theater. He is best known for his roles as teenage David Helfgott in Shine, Locke in the HBO series Game of Thrones, Darby Sabini in the BBC One series Peaky Blinders, Mr. Bucket in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Danny in the Australian cult film He Died with a Felafel in His Hand.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Bulk
2025
When an over zealous scientist pushes his experiments with string theory too far - his brane explodes. That's "brane" not "brain" - but that means som...
Skyscraper
2018
as Mr. Pierce
Framed and on the run, a former FBI agent must save his family from a blazing fire in the world's tallest building.
Paddington 2
2017
as Phibs
Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.
Free Fire
2017
as Gordon
Set in Boston in 1978, a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shoot-out and a game of survival.
The Menkoff Method
2016
as Max Menkoff
David Cork (Lachlan Woods) is a lowly data processor slaving away in the cubicle wasteland of Endo Bank's notorious Data Processing Centre, the DPC. B...
The Windmill Massacre
2016
as Nicholas
Jennifer, an Australian girl on the run from her past, turns up in Amsterdam and, in a desperate attempt to blend in, joins a coach-load of tourists o...
All You Zombies: Bringing 'Predestination' to Life
2015
as Self
Documentary about the making of the Spierig Brothers' 2014 film PREDESTINATION that is based on Robert A. Heinlein's 1959 science-fiction short story ...
Maya the Bee Movie
2014
as Crawley (voice)
A bubbly little bumblebee rebels against the rules of the hive to make all kinds of friends—from violin-playing grasshoppers to a hornet named Sting.
Predestination
2014
as Mr. Robertson
Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from com...
Lost in Karastan
2014
as Xan Butler
Washed up British film director, Emil, who is invited by a nascent state to make a national Epic in an obscure Caucasus Republic ruled by an eccentric...
Edge of Tomorrow
2014
as Dr. Carter
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within min...
The Double
2014
as Harris
An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman ...
Anna
2013
as Peter Lundgren
A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a socio...
Lawless
2012
as Gummy Walsh
In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business — bootlegging....
Red Dog
2011
as Jack
The legendary true story of the Red Dog who united a disparate local community while roaming the Australian outback in search of his long lost master.
Submarine
2011
as Lloyd Tate
15-year-old deep-thinking Welsh schoolboy Oliver Tate struggles to initiate and maintain a relationship with Jordana, his devilish, dark-haired classm...
Red White & Blue
2010
as Nate
A woman attracts the attention of a psychotic former Army interrogator and an emotionally fragile young man caring for his ailing mother.
Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 5: Tender Prey)
2010
as Self
A short film to accompany the reissue of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album Tender Prey (originally released in 1988). The result is a determinedly human...
Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 6: The Good Son)
2010
as Self
A short film to accompany the reissue of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album The Good Son (originally released in 1990). The result is a determinedly huma...
The New Daughter
2009
as Prof. Evan White
John James is a writer; his wife has left him. He moves with his two middle-school children to an isolated house off a dirt road in South Carolina. Th...
Lecture 21
2008
as Peters
A student takes a bizarre trip through the Italian Alps after being inspired by a professor's lecture on Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from his Ninth Symph...
The Dirty Three
2007
as Self
The Dirty Three are the rough and ready jewels in the crown of Australian rock and roll history. Born from the need to put food on the table and spawn...
The New World
2005
as Selway
A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
The Proposition
2005
as Brian O'Leary
In 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save his younger brother from the gallows, Charlie must hun...
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005
as Mr. Bucket
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
This Is an Adventure
2005
as Self
During production on the film "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou", documentary filmmakers followed the cast and crew of a film which depicts other do...
Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal
2005
as Self
Documentary created by Matthew Gray Gubler during, and about, his time on the set of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. (Released in 2005)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2004
as Vladimir Wolodarsky
Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is...
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
2003
as Bryce
Off the coast of the volcanic island of Santorini, the intrepid archaeologist Lara Croft makes the unexpected discovery of a pulsating golden orb able...
The Sleeping Dictionary
2003
as Neville
A young Englishman is dispatched to Sarawak to become part of the British colonial government. He encounters some unorthodox local traditions, and fin...
Max
2002
as Adolf Hitler
In 1918, a young, disillusioned Adolf Hitler strikes up a friendship with a Jewish art dealer while weighing a life of passion for art vs. talent at p...
Vanilla Sky
2001
as Edmund Ventura
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribl...
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand
2001
as Danny
A search for love, meaning and bathroom solitude. Danny goes through a series of shared housing experiences in a succession of cities on the east coas...
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand
2001
Additional Dialogue
A search for love, meaning and bathroom solitude. Danny goes through a series of shared housing experiences in a succession of cities on the east coas...
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
2001
as Bryce
Orphaned heiress, English aristocrat and intrepid archaeologist, Lara Croft, embarks on a dangerous quest to retrieve the two halves of an ancient art...
Almost Famous
2000
as Dick Roswell
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone ma...
The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz
2000
as Hyde Park Nutter
The last day of creation. A stranger arrives in London. No one knows who he is or where he has come from. By the time he leaves, the entire universe w...
The Escort
1999
as Gem
Fleeing from his wife in France to London, 45-year-old Pierre is barely able to support himself. He meets friendly Tom, who offers to help him make en...
Simon Magus
1999
as Simon
Simon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid ...
There's No Fish Food in Heaven
1998
as Jeff
Black comedy about an obsessive street graffiti artist, who falls obsessively in love with a frustrated artist he meets. Unfortunately, rather than tr...
Woundings
1998
as Journalist
A government program is trying to entice women to go to a remote island and become companions to war-scarred soldiers.
Down Rusty Down
1997
as Rusty
An anthromorphic tale, humans representing canines, of compulsive traits and raging desires. A gang of neutered men; fat, subdued and lazy, look out f...
True Love and Chaos
1997
as Dean
A man accompanies his lover on a journey, neglecting to mention that an angry drug dealer is in hot pursuit.
Shine
1996
as David as an adolescent
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
Dad and Dave: On Our Selection
1995
as Joe
Tired of local corruption and the harshness of his life a bushman demonstrates the true Aussie spirit and decides to run for parliament
The Nostradamus Kid
1993
as Ken Elkin
When he discovers the world is about to end, a lovestruck teen makes it his mission to bed the girl he has fallen for.
Joh's Jury
1993
as Brad
Dramatisation of the 1991 perjury trial of former Queensland state Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
Secrets
1992
as Randolph
Five teens get stuck in the basement in an attempt to see the Beatles in a local hotel.
Road to Alice
1992
Jimmy owes Dimitri more money than he can spare. He decides that a holiday would be a better bet. On his travels he meets Louis and things start to go...
The Last Crop
1991
as Craig Sweeney
Ann (Kerry Walker) cleans for a living. She confronts problems like a vacuum cleaner sucks up dirt from the carpet. She shares everything she has with...
Dead to the World
1991
as Skip
Two women battle for control of an inner-city boxing school.
Flirting
1991
as Danny Embling
Two freethinking teenagers - a boy and a girl - confront with authoritarian teachers in their boarding schools. The other students treat this differen...
Lover Boy
1989
as Mick
In suburban Melbourne, an awkward and inexperienced teenage boy and a mature woman come to discover the full force of their sexuality.
The Prisoner of St. Petersburg
1989
as Jack
A young Russian man arrives in Berlin in search of a woman, but becomes entangled with two others one of whom falls in love with him and another who r...
Dadah Is Death
1988
as Andrew Barlow
On 9th of November 1983 two Australians, Kevin Barlow and Geoff Chambers were arrested at Penang Airport in Malaysia carrying 179 grams of Heroin. A c...
The Year My Voice Broke
1987
as Danny Embling
Set in 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love blossoms into womanhood and falls for a t...
Dogs in Space
1986
as Bowie Fan
The place is Melbourne, Australia 1978. The punk phenomenon is sweeping the country and Dogs In Space, a punk group, are part of it. In a squat, in a ...
Big Girls Don't Cry
N/A
14-year-old Sid finds herself caught between her own burgeoning sexual curiosity and the desire for acceptance from an older group of girls. As she de...