Profile
Sam Taylor-Wood
Photographer + Songwriter + Singer
Female
Born
Mar 4, 1967
Age
46
Hometown
Croydon
Samantha "Sam" Taylor-Wood OBE, born Samantha Taylor, is an English filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist. Her directorial feature film debut came in 2009 with Nowhere Boy, a film based on the childhood experiences of The Beatles songwriter and singer… Read More
Photos
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Romance
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Aaron JohnsonDated 2009
News + Updates
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Wood: It Was Our Own Fault We LostBucks Free Press - Feb 25, 2013
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Wanderers Battle The Cold To Grab Three Precious PointsBucks Free Press - Jan 19, 2013
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Wood: We Were All Over NorthamptonBucks Free Press - Nov 19, 2012
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Oli Out But Wood On The MendBucks Free Press - Sep 13, 2012
Timeline
Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Sam Taylor-Wood.
CHILDHOOD
1967
Birth
Born on March 4, 1967.
TWENTIES
1993
26 Years Old
One collaboration with Henry Bond, titled 26 October 1993, featured Bond and Taylor-Wood reprising the roles of Yoko Ono and John Lennon in a pastiche of the photo-portrait made—by photographer Annie Leibovitz—a few hours before Lennon was assassinated, in 1980.
1994
27 Years Old
In 1994, she exhibited a multi-screen video work titled Killing Time, in which four people mimed to an opera score.
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THIRTIES
She won the Illy Café Prize for Most Promising Young Artist at the 1997 Venice Biennale.
2000
33 Years Old
In 2000, Taylor-Wood created a wraparound, photomural around scaffolding of the London department store Selfridges while it was being restored; the mural featured 21 cultural icons including Elton John, musician Alex James and actors Richard E. Grant and Ray Winstone.
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2002
35 Years Old
In 2002, Taylor-Wood was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery to make a video portrait of David Beckham—whom she depicted sleeping.
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FORTIES
In August 2008, Taylor-Wood was chosen to direct Nowhere Boy, a biopic about the childhood of the Beatles' singer, John Lennon.
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Her directorial feature film debut came in 2009 with Nowhere Boy, a film based on the childhood experiences of the Beatles songwriter and singer John Lennon.
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In 2011, she directed the music video of "Überlin" by R.E.M..
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