CIVIL STATUS
Professions Actor, Producer , Executive Producer plus
Nationality Canadian
Born 8 April 1981 (Kelowna – Canada)
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Canada, Taylor Kitsch was initially destined for a career as a professional hockey player, but a serious knee injury put an end to his athletic ambitions. After joining a modeling agency in 2002, and obtaining, at the same time, a diploma in nutritionist and sports coach, he finally tried his hand at acting thanks to appearances in the series Godiva’s and Kyle XY. In 2006, the handsome guy joined the cast of the drama Friday Night Lights in the role of footballer Tim Riggins, alongside Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton, which brought him his first public recognition, as well as film offers.
Between two seasons, Kitsch made a name for himself on the big screen in supporting roles (Snakes on the Plane, The Blood Pact, John Tucker Must Die), before sharing with Hugh Jackman the poster of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, in which he played the mutant Rémy Lebeau, aka Gambit, well known to fans of the Marvel universe. Once Tim Riggins’ ball was finally put away in the locker room, the Canadian actor rose to greater fame in 2012 thanks to two major Hollywood productions in which he starred. He is first and foremost John Carter’s eponymous hero, who sees his character, a soldier during the American Civil War, thrown onto Mars, in the middle of a conflict between alien factions. Taylor Kitsch then returns to Earth – or rather to the sea – for Battleship, another sci-fi film, in which an alien fleet attacks warships.
The actor, who also starred in Oliver Stone’s Savages, confirmed his attraction to military roles in 2014 when he collaborated again with director Peter Berg, who had already helmed Friday Night Lights and Battleship, for Blood and Tears, in which he plays Lieutenant Mike Murphy, a member of the SEALs plunged into the horror of the war in Afghanistan. Although he did not give up on his television career, he then starred opposite Mark Ruffalo in The Normal Heart, the prestigious television movie directed by Ryan Murphy, which focused on the rise of the AIDS epidemic within the gay community in the early 1980s in New York.
In 2015, Taylor Kitsch was chosen by screenwriter Nic Pizzolatto to be part of the cast of the highly anticipated second season of HBO’s anthology crime series True Detective. Alongside Colin Farrell and Rachel McAdams, he plays Officer Paul Woodrugh, who finds himself drawn into a joint investigation by several police departments after discovering the body of a corrupt politician.
