Sam Taylor-Johnson is well known as the wife of actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson.
Sam Taylor-Wood was born in Croydon, London. Her father, David, left the family when she was nine.
Her mother, Geraldine, is a yoga teacher and astrologist. She has younger sister, Ashley, and a maternal half-brother, Kristian.
Sam Taylor-Johnson is a British filmmaker and photographer. Her directorial feature film debut was 2009’s Nowhere Boy, a film based on the childhood experiences of The Beatles songwriter and singer John Lennon.
She is one of a group of artists known as the Young British Artists.
Taylor-Johnson began exhibiting fine-art photography in the early 1990s.
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.
In 1994, she exhibited a multi-screen video work titled Killing Time, in which four people mimed to an opera score.