Taran Killam is a Nickelodeon veteran, he is one of cinema’s most successful performing artists. An avid comic book reader, it’s no surprise how prolific a writer he is.
American artist Taran Killam made his theatrical debut at the age of 12, in Naked Gun, and made his Broadway debut in 2017. Killam first rose to fame for his role in the Amanda Show.
Since his debut in the entertainment industry, he has starred in more than half a century of movies and TV shows, amidst theatrical performance.
Taran Killam Biography
Taran Hourie Killam is an American actor, comedian and author born on April 1, 1982 in Culver City, California, United States. He is American, of mixed nationality and origin: English, Irish and Scottish. He was raised alongside his brother, Taylor Killam, and although he was born in Culver City, Taran spent most of his childhood in Bog Bear Lake, California.
Killam went to Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. After graduating from high school, he chose to study at the University of California, Los Angeles, which he did, but he was never able to complete his studies at the university. He only spent a year there in 2000.
Taran Killam was just a teenager when he made his acting debut. He made his first appearance in film in 1994, when he was just 12 years old. Naked Gun 33⅓: The final insult. He didn’t have much recognition since his first film role and also didn’t have leading roles in movies like he did back then.
However, it took until 2000 to get the recognition he craved, when the Amanda Show premiered. He was just 18 when he appeared on the Nickelodeon TV show as Spaulding, a young teenager who had a crush on Moody. His role in the TV show can be called a success, as it brought him his well-deserved fame and helped him land major roles in other movies and TV shows. Taran featured in 7 episodes of the show between 2000 and 2002.
At the age of 19, when he made his first appearance on MADtv, he appeared on the TV show in 13 episodes between 2001 and 2002. He was the youngest cast member in MADtv.
Killam became the second Nickelodeon veteran to appear on Saturday Night Live when he was featured on the TV show’s 36th season on September 25, 2010. He is also the only second Saturday Night Live cast member who had previously featured . in MADtv. He has featured in 126 episodes of SNL.
In 2013, Killam made a minor appearance in Grown Ups 2 as a cheerleader. The same year, he was cast as Adam The Heat. He also featured in 12 Years A Slave as Abram Hamilton in 2013.
The actor is a lover of the animated children’s film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and in 2014, he made a brief appearance in the film as Jim McNaughton.
Among his films and television series, he had a play he starred in in 2017 titled Hamilton. The play was his Broadway debut. His appearance in the play was made possible after Rory O’Malley was replaced as King George III.
In 2012 he was nominated for the Gold Derby Award for his role on Saturday Night Live. He was also nominated for the same award in 2014, but this time for his role in 12 Years A Slave. Her role in the film also earned her a nomination for the Society of Film Critics Award.
In 2017, Taran Killam won an award at the San Diego International Film Festival for the Visionary Director Award.
Taran Killam’s wife (Cobie Smulders)
Taran has an eye for beauty, he shares a family with Canadian artist Cobie Smulders. It’s fascinating and amazing how close the couple’s birthdates are. Killam is just two days older than his wife Cobie, yes you read that right, just two days.
She was born Jacoba Francisca Maria Cobie Smulders on April 3, 1982 in Vancouver, ColombiaColumbia, Canada. She was born to an English mother and a Dutch father. Like her husband, Cobie is also a performer, she is an actress and a model. She has starred in several popular movies and is recognized for her role in How I Met Your Mother as Robin Scherbatsky. Other popular series included Smallville, a 2004 American television series where she starred in an episode of Shannon Bell. She also made three appearances in Marvel’s Agents of Shield as Maria Hill. Cobie reprized her role as Maria Hill in other Marvel sequel series like The Avengersin 2012, Captain America: The Winter Soldier in 2014, Avengers: Age of Ultron in 2015, and in the final Marvel sequel Avengers: Infinity War in the early months of 2018.
The Canadian beauty earned $225,000 per episode when she starred in How I Met Your Mother between 2014 and 2015, with 208 episodes. His net worth stands at $18 million.
Killam and Cobie started dating in 2000, got engaged in 2009 and then married on September 8, 2012, in Solvang, California.
Who are Killam and Cobie’s children?
The couple have two children together, both are girls. Their first daughter, Shaelyn Cado Killam, was born on May 16, 2009, three years before her parents married. In January 2015, the couple announced the birth of their second daughter, Janita Killam.
His size and his body
Born with the zodiac sign Aries, the Nickelodeon veteran is 1.85m tall and weighs 76kg. His wife Cobie is 1.73m tall and weighs 64kg. Taran has a pair of blue eyes and a light blonde hair color while his wife whose body is 34-23-33 has a pair of blue eyes and a dark brown hair color.
Taran’s net worth
Killam, actor and comedian, earned about $4 million, far less than his wife, who is worth $25 million.
