Ellar coltrane biography
Ellar coltrane biography
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Ellar Coltrane
American actor
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Born | Ellar Coltrane Kinney Salmon[1] (1994-08-27) August 27, 1994 (age 30) Austin, Texas, U.S. |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 2002–present |
Ellar Coltrane Kinney Salmon (born August 27, 1994) is an American actor.
They are best known for their role as Mason Evans Jr. in Richard Linklater's film Boyhood, for which they 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] Their parents divorced when they were nine, and their mother subsequently remarried.[5] Coltrane's half-sister, Evelyn, was born when they were 11.[3][4]
In 2001, at age six, Coltrane was cast by filmmaker Richard Linklater to play the title character in th