Taylor James

Biography

Taylor was born in Sevenoaks England on 26th January 1980. Between the years of 1980-1986, he lived with his family in South Africa, before returning back to the Uk for schooling. Taylor attended secondary School in Northamptonshire from 1991-1997 before completing 2 years at Northampton college studying performing arts. In 2000 Taylor was awarded a scholarship at the London Studio Center, where he studied for a further 3 years. After graduation, Taylor began his career on the stage, performing in many of London’s West end musical productions, Guys and Dolls, Mamma Mia, and Footloose. Taylor starred in 2007 in his first feature film, Mamma Mia for Universal. In 2008 Taylor continued his work on the stage with Piaf, Danton’s Death, Little dog laughed, Duchess of Malfi and more recently The Winters Tale and Romeo and Juliet for Sir Kenneth Branagh’s theatre company. Taylor is also well known for his reoccurring role in the Vanquis commercials which is a tongue in cheek homage to Game of Thrones. Taylor’s breakout role was in 2018 starring as Samson in the Pure Flix production ‘Samson’