Taron Egerton Birthday & Age: Family, Movies Timeline & Rocketman Awards

Taron Egerton, the Welsh actor who became a global name as Eggsy in Kingsman and won a Golden Globe for playing Elton John in Rocketman, was born on 10 November 1989. He is 37 years old and has built a career that mixes big action films, music, voice work and gripping streaming thrillers.

Taron Egerton at a Glance

Detail	Information
Name	Taron Egerton (pronounced EJ-ər-tən)
Born	10 November 1989, Birkenhead, England
Raised in	Anglesey and Aberystwyth, Wales
Training	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), graduated 2012
Breakthrough	Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)
Biggest award	Golden Globe for Best Actor – Musical or Comedy (Rocketman)

Family and Growing Up in Wales

Egerton was born in Birkenhead, near Liverpool. His mother, Christine, worked in social services, and his father, David, ran a bed-and-breakfast near Liverpool. Both parents are from Liverpool, while his grandmother came from Wales. He has two younger half-sisters.

His parents divorced when he was two, and he moved with his mother to the Welsh island of Anglesey, where he went to primary school. When he was twelve the family moved again, this time to the seaside town of Aberystwyth. He speaks Welsh and proudly calls himself Welsh. He has described his background as working-class and has said that he started acting at fifteen partly because it helped him make friends.

From RADA to Hollywood

Egerton trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. In 2011, while still a second-year student, he won Student Performer of the Year at the Stephen Sondheim Society’s singing competition — an early sign of the voice that later carried Rocketman. He graduated in 2012 and went straight onto the stage at London’s National Theatre in The Last of the Haussmans.

After a small role in the TV detective series Lewis, director Matthew Vaughn cast the unknown young actor as the lead in Kingsman: The Secret Service. The stylish spy comedy turned him into a star almost overnight.

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Taron Egerton Movies and Shows Timeline

Year	Title	Role
2014	Testament of Youth	Edward Brittain
2014	Kingsman: The Secret Service	Eggsy
2016	Eddie the Eagle	Ski jumper Eddie Edwards
2016–present	Sing films	Voice role
2017	Kingsman: The Golden Circle	Eggsy
2019	Rocketman	Elton John
2019	The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance	Voice role
2022	Black Bird	Jimmy Keene
2023	Tetris	Henk Rogers
2024	Carry-On	TSA agent Ethan Kopek
2025	Smoke and She Rides Shotgun	Lead roles
2026	Apex	Villain Ben, opposite Charlize Theron

The Rocketman Moment

Playing Elton John was the turning point of his career. Egerton learned the piano for the part and sang live in every take instead of miming to the original recordings. Critics praised the performance as charismatic and emotionally intelligent. It won him the Golden Globe for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, plus nominations for a BAFTA for Best Actor and a Grammy for the film’s soundtrack.

Streaming Hits in Recent Years

Lately Egerton has become one of Netflix’s most-watched leading men. Carry-On (2024), in which he plays a TSA agent blackmailed by a mysterious traveller, became Netflix’s fifth-most-watched English-language film of all time. In 2026 he played the villain in the survival thriller Apex, which was reported to be among the streamer’s most-watched films of the year. He also starred in the Apple TV+ miniseries Smoke (2025), and his chilling work in Black Bird earned him a Primetime Emmy nomination.

Awards and Nominations

• Won: Golden Globe Award for Rocketman
• Nominated: BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
• Nominated: BAFTA Rising Star Award
• Nominated: Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media
• Nominated: Primetime Emmy Award for Black Bird
• Won (as a student): Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year (2011)

Personal Life

Egerton keeps his private life fairly low-key. He has spoken in support of the LGBTQ+ community and, after online speculation in 2018, clarified that he is heterosexual. He has also said publicly that he has been estranged from his father for a number of years. We only include details he has confirmed himself.

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