Ellar Coltrane | |
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 Coltrane in April 2015 | |
| Born | Ellar Coltrane Kinney Salmon [1] August 27, 1994 Austin, Texas, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2002–present |
Ellar Coltrane Kinney Salmon (born August 27, 1994) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Mason Evans Jr. in Richard Linklater's film Boyhood , for which he won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer. [2]
Coltrane was born in Austin, Texas, to Genevieve (née Kinney), an equine-assisted therapist for autistic people, [3] and Bruce Salmon, a musician. [4] His parents divorced when he was nine, and his mother subsequently remarried. [5] Coltrane's half-sister, Evelyn, was born when he was eleven. [3] [4]
In 2001, at age six, Coltrane was cast by filmmaker Richard Linklater to play the title character in the film Boyhood ; Linklater wanted to make an unprecedented film that would show a boy's coming of age, but with the actors growing up or aging on screen. Coltrane and other members of the cast were filmed intermittently for several days at a time between May 2002 and August 2013, by which time Coltrane had turned 19; there were 45 days of filming altogether. [6] During Coltrane's childhood, he also appeared in various other films, including a small role in Linklater's 2006 film Fast Food Nation . [7]
In 2016, Coltrane appeared in the Barack Obama drama film Barry , which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. [8] The following year, he co-starred with Emma Watson in James Ponsoldt's film adaptation of the Dave Eggers novel The Circle (2017), which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. [9]
Coltrane has spoken of his discomfort with binary gender roles: "For me, the binary gender demarcation always has felt just kind of like … a charade, like this character that I have to play." [10]
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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| 2002 | Lone Star State of Mind | Young Earl Crest | |
| 2005 | Faith & Bullets | Thomas Chaney Jr. | |
| 2006 | Fast Food Nation | Jay Anderson | |
| 2009 | Hallettsville | Young Tyler Jensen | |
| 2014 | Boyhood | Mason Evans Jr. | Filmed from 2002–2013 |
| 2016 | Barry | Will | |
| 2017 | The Circle | Mercer Regalado | |
| The Last Movie Star | Shane McAvoy | ||
| Blood Money | Victor | ||
| 2018 | The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot | "The Clerk" | |
| 2019 | Summer Night | Jameson Ford | |
| 2020 | The Good Lord Bird | Salmon Brown | |
| 2021 | El Fantasma | Lee Harvey Oswald | |
| 2021 | Shoplifters of the World | Dean |
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