Taron Egerton (born November 10, 1989) is a Welsh actor and singer. He made his film debut in Testament of Youth (2014), with Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Emily Watson, Hayley Atwell, Colin Morgan, Joanna Scanlan, Anna Chancellor, Alexandra Roach, Dominic West, and Miranda Richardson.
His breakout role came in Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), with Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Strong, Sophie Cookson, Jack Davenport, Sofia Boutella, Edward Holcroft, Mark Hamill, and , Michael Caine. He also starred in the sequel Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), with much of the returning cast along with Julianne Moore, Pedro Pascal, Halle Berry, Elton John, Channing Tatum, Hanna Alström, Jeff Bridges, and Michael Gambon.
He’s also known for voicing in the Sing franchise (2016 – ), collectively with Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson, John C. Reilly, Nick Kroll, Tori Kelly, Jennifer Saunders, Jennifer Hudson, Peter Serafinowicz, Nick Offerman, Beck Bennett, Bobby Cannavale, Halsey, Pharrell Williams, Letitia Wright, Eric André, Chelsea Peretti, and Bono.
Other films in the 2010s include Brian Helgeland’s Legend (2015), with Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, David Thewlis, Christopher Eccleston, Colin Morgan, Chazz Palminteri, Paul Bettany, Tara Fitzgerald, and Duffy; Dexter Fletcher’s Eddie the Eagle (2016), with Hugh Jackman, Christopher Walken, Iris Berben, and Jim Broadbent; Billionaire Boys Club (2018), with Ansel Elgort, Emma Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irvine, Thomas Cocquerel, Rosanna Arquette, Cary Elwes, and Judd Nelson; Robin Hood (2018), with Jamie Foxx, Ben Mendelsohn, Eve Hewson, Tim Minchin, Jamie Dornan, and F. Murray Abraham; and Rocketman (2019), with Jamie Bell, Richard Madden, Bryce Dallas Howard, Gemma Jones, and Stephen Graham – for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

Films in the 2020s include Tetris (2023), with Nikita Efremov, Sofia Lebedeva, Anthony Boyle, and Toby Jones; Carry-On (2024), with Sofia Carson, Danielle Deadwyler, Theo Rossi, Logan Marshall-Green, and Jason Bateman; She Rides Shotgun (2025), with Ana Sophia Heger, Rob Yang, Odessa A’zion, David Lyons, and John Carroll Lynch; Apex (2026), with Charlize Theron and Eric Bana; and Everybody Wants to Fuck Me (2026), with Jessica Henwick, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Charly Clive, Herbert Nordrum, and Sophie Simnett.
He had his first major tv role in The Smoke (2014), with Jamie Bamber, Jodie Whittaker, Rhashan Stone, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Gerard Kearns, Dorian Lough, David Walmsley, and Martyn Ellis. Other series and miniseries include Black Bird (2022), with Paul Walter Hauser, Sepideh Moafi, Greg Kinnear, and Ray Liotta; and Smoke (2025), with Jurnee Smollett, Rafe Spall, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Hannah Emily Anderson, Kinnear, and John Leguizamo.
He also voiced in the tv series Watership Down (2018), with James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, John Boyega, Ben Kingsley, Tom Wilkinson, Gemma Arterton, Peter Capaldi, Olivia Colman, and Mackenzie Crook; and The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019), with Anya Taylor-Joy, Nathalie Emmanuel, Shazad Latif, Harris Dickinson, Simon Pegg, Hamill, Jason Isaacs, Benedict Wong, Donna Kimball, Caitriona Balfe, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Andy Samberg, Helena Bonham Carter, Keegan-Michael Key, Awkwafina, Harvey Fierstein, Alice Dinnean, Neil Sterenberg, Ralph Ennison, Eddie Izzard, Dustin Demri-Burns, Lena Headey, Vikander, Natalie Dormer, Strong, and Theo James; and the first 2 seasons of Moominvalley (2019 – 2024), with Rosamund Pike, Matt Berry, Edvin Endre, Bel Powley, Richard Ayoade, Akiya Henry, Will Self, Warwick Davis, and Kate Winslet.
Each review will be linked to the title below.
(*seen originally in theaters)
(**seen rereleased in theaters)
- The Last of the Haussmans (2012) – directed by Howard Davies & Ross MacGinbon – filmed play
- Pop (2012) – directed by Edward Rawle-Hicks – short
- Hereafter (2013) – directed by Johnny Allan – short
- The Smoke (2014) – created Lucy Kirkwood
- Testament of Youth (2014) – directed by James Kent
- Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)* – directed by Matthew Vaughn
- Legend (2015) – directed by Brian Helgeland
- Eddie the Eagle (2016)* – directed by Dexter Fletcher
- Sing (2016)* – directed by Garth Jennings
- Love at First Site (2017) – directed by Benjamin Le Ster & Matthew Nealon – short
- Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)* – directed by Matthew Vaughn
- Billionaire Boys Club (2018) – directed by James Cox
- Robin Hood (2018) – directed by Otto Bathurst
- Watership Down (2018) – directed by Noam Murro – animated miniseries
- Rocketman (2019)* – directed by Dexter Fletcher
- The Dark Crystal: Age of Extinction (2019) – directed by Louis Leterrier – series
- Sing 2 (2021)* – directed by Garth Jennings
- Come Home (2021) – directed by Garth Jennings – short
- Glimpse (2021) – directed by Benjamin Cleary & Michael O’Connor – short
- For Gunther’s Eyes Only (2022) – directed by David Feiss & David Pellé – short
- Black Bird (2022) – directed by Michaël R. Roskam, Joe Chappelle, Jim McKay – miniseries – also executive producer
- Tetris (2023) – directed by Jon S. Baird – also executive producer
- Sing: Thriller (2024) – directed by Garth Jennings – short
- Carry-On (2024) – directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
- She Rides Shotgun (2025) – directed by Nick Rowland – also executive producer
- Smoke (2025) – directed by Joe Chappelle, Jim McKay, & Kari Skogland – miniseries – also executive producer
- Apex (2026) – directed by Baltasar Kormákur
- Everybody Wants to Fuck Me (2026) – directed by Jonathan Schey
- Kockroach (202-) – directed by Matt Ross
