Background on Sam Taylor Johnson Director of Fifty Shades Of Grey

The novel Fifty Shades of Grey has swept the literary world with its erotic subject matter and  intriguing characters. Making the bestseller lists repeatedly, it has been published in over thirty  languages and has gained worldwide renown. Talks began last year over production of a movie for the matter, and the background on Sam  Taylor Johnson, director for Fifty Shades movie has been a question pressing on every fan of the book. Sam is a little known director of several short films dealing with controversial subject matter, as well as the feature length biography Nowhere Boy in 2009. Nowhere Boy is the biography of musician John Lennon, one of the founding members of the Beatles and his struggles in the early parts of his life. The biography was critically acclaimed as providing a unique insight into his life, and Sam received praise for her work on it.

Sam Taylor Johnson was born in 1967 in the Croydon, England, and grew up in south London for her   formative years. She attended Beacon Community College and studied the performing arts. Later in her life, she became involved in the production of performance art and photography, gaining popularity and fame in the British circles of fine art. Johnson was chosen to direct the biography Nowhere Boy about John Lennon in 2009 based on her performance with video and photographic art, and was initially very nervous about the task. Johnson has four children and has been married twice, most recently to the young star of NowhereBoy. They have been married happily for three years.Her life experiences, prior experience as both a director and artist, and strong sense of sensuality have all combined to place her as the perfect director for the movie adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey.