Ellar Coltrane Kinney Salmon (born August 27, 1994), known
professionally as Ellar Coltrane, is an American actor and model. They
are best known for their role as Mason Evans Jr. in Richard
Linklater's film Boyhood (2014), for which they won the Critics'
Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer.Coltrane was born in
Austin, Texas to Genevieve (née Kinney), an equine-assisted therapist
for people with autism, and Bruce Salmon, a musician. Their parents
divorced when they were nine, and their mother subsequently remarried.
Coltrane's half-sister, Evelyn, was born when they were eleven.In
2001, at age six, Coltrane was cast by filmmaker Richard Linklater to
play the title character of sorts of 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, when they turned 19; there
were 45 days of filming altogether. During Coltrane's childhood, they
also appeared in some other movies, including a small role in
Linklater's 2006 film Fast Food Nation.In 2016, Coltrane starred in
the Barack Obama drama film Barry, which premiered at the Toronto
International Film Festival. The following year, they 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.
professionally as Ellar Coltrane, is an American actor and model. They
are best known for their role as Mason Evans Jr. in Richard
Linklater's film Boyhood (2014), for which they won the Critics'
Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer.Coltrane was born in
Austin, Texas to Genevieve (née Kinney), an equine-assisted therapist
for people with autism, and Bruce Salmon, a musician. Their parents
divorced when they were nine, and their mother subsequently remarried.
Coltrane's half-sister, Evelyn, was born when they were eleven.In
2001, at age six, Coltrane was cast by filmmaker Richard Linklater to
play the title character of sorts of 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, when they turned 19; there
were 45 days of filming altogether. During Coltrane's childhood, they
also appeared in some other movies, including a small role in
Linklater's 2006 film Fast Food Nation.In 2016, Coltrane starred in
the Barack Obama drama film Barry, which premiered at the Toronto
International Film Festival. The following year, they 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.
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