Ellar Coltrane
Biography
Ellar Coltrane is an American actor who, as a child in Austin, Texas, was chosen by Richard Linklater to play the central role in Boyhood (2014). Linklater filmed him intermittently from May 2002 to August 2013, and the role earned him a Critics' Choice Movie Award as best young performer. During his childhood he also took a small part in Linklater's Fast Food Nation (2006). In 2016 he appeared in Barry, a drama about Barack Obama that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. He co-starred with Emma Watson in The Circle (2017), an adaptation of Dave Eggers's novel that was shown at the Tribeca Film Festival. Linklater has described him as primarily a poet, and he occasionally acts in independent films.
32years old
Turns 33 on August 27in 319 days
- Born Austin
- Star sign: VirgoThe sign runs August 23 to September 22
- Also credited as Ellar Coltrane Kinney Salmon and Ellar Salmon
Movie Career
- Films
- 9
- Career span
- 19 years2002 to 2021
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