Taylor Lautner

Taylor Lautner is an American actor, martial artist and producer, born in 1992. He trained in karate from childhood and worked as a child performer in television comedies and animated series before his film breakthrough as Sharkboy in The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 2005. He became widely known for playing the werewolf Jacob Black in The Twilight Saga films between 2008 and 2012, a role that made him a teen idol and, for a time, the highest-paid teenage actor in Hollywood. Later screen work includes the action film Abduction, the comedy Grown Ups 2, the British sitcom Cuckoo and a season of the television series Scream Queens. His recognitions include a Scream Award and an MTV Movie Award.