Profile
Location
Auckland, New Zealand
Height
190 cm
Age Range
25–35
Ethnicity
European
Career Highlights
After graduating from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School in 2013, Taylor quickly landed his first television role in War News. Since then, he has garnered an impressive list of television credits including a core cast role in primetime soap Filthy Rich, along with a number of guest roles in cult hit Westside, WWI mini-series When We Go To War, true-crime television movie Venus and Mars, and biographical mini-series Hillary. Taylor has also appeared in various international screen productions such as Netflix’s Roman Empire and Australian-New Zealand co-production 800 words. His short film credits include Milk, Prescribed, Sunday Morning and Cigarettes in the Sand.
Short Film.
| 2017 | A Women's Right to Shoes | Steven | Dir. Robyn Grace |
| 2015 | Every Moment | Tim | Dir. Gabriel Reid |
Short Film.
| 2017 | Milk | Dale | Dir. Nick Burridge |
| 2012 | Prescribed | Noah | Toi Whakaari Dir. Daniel Pengelly |
| 2012 | Sunday Morning | Bjorn | New Zealand Film School Dir. John Reid |
| 2011 | Cigarettes in the Sand | Lone man | New Zealand Film School Dir. Anthony Stewart |
Television.
| 2019 | Westside S5 | Allen Markham | South Pacific Pictures Dir. Various |
| 2017 | Roman Empire S-2 | Young Caesar (Guest) | Stephen David Entertainment Dir. John Ealer |
| 2016 | 800 Words | Ryan | South Pacific Pictures Dir. Pino Amenta |
| 2016 | Filthy Rich S-2 | Vader (Lead) | Filthy Rich Productions Dir. Various |
| 2015 | Auckward Love | Neil Fraser | Dir. Emmett Skilton |
| 2015 | Filthy Rich Series 1 & 2 | Vader (Core Cast) | Filthy Productions Ltd Dir. Steven Zanoski |
| 2015 | Hillary | Neil Fraser (Support) | Great Southern Television Ltd Dir. Danny Mulheron |
| 2014 | Venus and Mars | Brendan Crawford (Support) | Screentime NZ Dir. John Laing |
| 2014 | When We go To War | Private Hall (Guest) | JUMP FILM AND TELEVISION LTD Dir. Peter Burger |
| 2013 | War News | Lieutenant Averill | Gibson Group Dir. Mike Smith |
Theatre.
| 2012 | Aki | Player | Toi Whakaari & The National Archive New Zealand Dir. Heather Timms |
| 2012 | Assassins | Leon Czolgosz | Toi Whakaari Dir. Jonathon Henry |
| 2012 | Dunsinane | Malcolm | Dir. Rachel Henry |
| 2012 | The Last Days of Judas Iscariot | Caiaphas the Elder | Toi Whakaari Dir. Brett Adam |
| 2011 | Much Ado about Nothing | Don Pedro | Toi Whakaari Dir. Perry Piercy |
| 2010 | Bash - A Gaggle of saints | John | Hamilton Fringe Festival Dir. Andrew Kaye |
Training.
| Clown - 2012, Fraser Hooper & Nina Nawalowalo | |||
| Mime - Commedia - Mask - 2012, Tom McCrory & Nina Nawalowalo | |||
| Screen Master Class - 2012, Miranda Harcourt - Three days | |||
| Stage Combat - 2012, Allan Henry | |||
| Alignment/Laban - 2011, Andrea Tutt | |||
| Audition/Casting - 2011, Sean Allan & Tina Cleary | |||
| Bachelor of Performing Arts Majoring in Acting for Screen and Stage - 2011, Toi Whakaari- NZ Drama School | |||
| Improvisation - 2011, Grant Tilly | |||
| Introduction to Writing for Theatre - 2011, Dave Armstrong | |||
| Kung Fu - 2011, Shi Mei Lin | |||
| Movement - 2011, Tom McCrory | |||
| Physical Theatre - 2011, Jude Gibson | |||
| Screen Technique - 2011, Nathaniel Lees | |||
| Singing - 2011, Mark Dorrell | |||
| Voice - 2011, Jon Hunter & D'Arcy Smith | |||
| Voice - Lessac method - 2011, Barry Kurr | |||
| Devising Workshop - 2010, Laurel Devenie - Two day | |||
| Mask and Physical Theatre Workshop - 2010, John Davies - Two day | |||
| Screen Technique Workshop - 2009, Vicky Yiannoutsos - Two Days | |||
| Text Analysis Workshop - 2009, Stuart Devenie - Two day |