Ellar Coltrane
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| Born | Ellar Coltrane Kinney Salmon[1] Script error: No such module "person date". Austin, Texas, U.S. |
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| Years active | 2002–present |
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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]
Life and career
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 11.[3][4]
In 2001, at age six, Coltrane was cast by filmmaker Richard Linklater to play the principal 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]
Personal life
In 2021, Coltrane spoke 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", and expressed a preference to be identified with singular they/them pronouns.[10]
Since, Coltrane has started using he/him pronouns.[11]
Filmography
| 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 |
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ellar Coltrane Kinney Salmon". Mocavo.com. Archived from the original on December 31, 2014. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sneider, Jeff (January 16, 2014). "10 Most Buzzed-About Sundance Actors, From Bill Hader to Maika Monroe". TheWrap. Archived from the original on 16 December 2019. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Thurmond, Sarah (June 30, 2014). "About a Boy". Austin Monthly. Retrieved October 1, 2017.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kachka, Boris (June 21, 2014). "Ellar Coltrane on his 12-Year Movie Role". Vulture. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mechanic, Michael (July 3, 2014). "Meet the Star of "Boyhood," the Oscar Frontrunner Everybody's Talking About". Mother Jones. Retrieved October 1, 2017.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Carroll, Larry (November 28, 2006). "Got Plans For 2013? Check Out Richard Linklater's '12-Year Movie'". MTV News. Archived from the original on July 15, 2014. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lewis, Hilary (November 11, 2014). "'Boyhood': 11 Things to Know About Star Ellar Coltrane". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved October 1, 2017.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.McNary, Dave (March 14, 2016). "'Compton's' Jason Mitchell, 'Boyhood's' Ellar Coltrane Join Young Barack Obama Movie 'Barry'". Variety. Retrieved September 18, 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kit, Borys (September 29, 2015). "'Boyhood' Star Joins Emma Watson, Tom Hanks in 'The Circle' (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved September 29, 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Vognar, Chris (26 March 2021). "'Boyhood' Star Ellar Coltrane is Leaving Texas—But Staying Far from Hollywood". Texas Monthly.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ellar Coltrane Instagram profile". Retrieved January 24, 2026.
External links
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