Taron Egerton
Biography
Taron Egerton was born on November 10, 1989 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England as Taron David Egerton. He is an actor, known for Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), Eddie the Eagle (2016) and Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017).
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Trivia
Auditioned for Scott Summers/Cyclops in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), but turned the role down.
His name, "Taron", is a version of the traditional Welsh name, "Taran", which means "thunder". His name came from a spelling mistake on his mother's part, putting an "o" instead of the second "a".
Fell in love with acting as a teen after performing in his first production, A Midsummer's Night Dream, in which he played Flute, the cross-dressing Mechanical.
First movie he saw at the theatre was Bambi.
Won the Stephen Sondheim Society 'Student Performer of the Year' 2011 when he was 21 years old.
[on being in awe of his Eddie The Eagle co-star Hugh Jackman's physique] Hugh Jackman has got guns to die for. Have you seen his arms? They are bigger than my head!
[on there bring a friendly bodybuilding competition on the set of Kinsman: The Secret Service] The big competition was between me and Ed Holcroft, who plays Charlie. Ed and I, despite the fact that we loathe each other in the film, are really big friends. But we - from day one - had a big competition to see who would get the biggest pecs, because we knew that we had to be topless. I think he may have got the guns, but in terms of abs and pecs I think I just pipped him to the post.
