Taz Skylar

About

Tarek Yassin Skylar (born 5 December 1995), known professionally as Taz Skylar, is a British and Spanish actor and screenwriter. After the success of his self written off-West-end play, Warheads, he went on to write and star in Gassed Up for Amazon Prime, subsequently playing Sanji in the Netflix series One Piece (2023).

Skylar was born in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain to a Lebanese father and an English mother. His father was born in Sierra Leone, and his mother came from Yorkshire. Skylar, who is fluent in Spanish, grew up in Tenerife. He holds both British and Spanish citizenship and has permanent residence in Spain.
He worked creating surfboards from the age of 15 after leaving high school. He attempted to enlist as a reservist in the British Army in 2016, but after a car accident caused him to suffer a concussion, he failed medical tests. He had to wait a year before he could reapply to join the army, so he began writing and acting.

Skylar began his career in the United Kingdom, where he started acting in various small roles. In 2015, he appeared in the short films Venom and Beautiful. He then played David in the short film Trophy (2016…