Taylor Kitsch

At 43 years old, Taylor Kitsch has this physical status:

Taylor Kitsch (born April 8, 1981) is a Canadian actor and model.

He is best known for his role as Tim Riggins in the NBC television series Friday Night Lights (2006–2011).

He has worked in films including X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), Battleship (2012), John Carter (2012), Savages (2012), and Lone Survivor (2013). Paul Woodrugh appeared in the HBO series True Detective as Bruce Niles (2014) and portrayed David Koresh in the miniseries Waco (2018).

Early life

Kitsch was born in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Susan (Green), his mother, worked with the BC Liquor Board, while his father, Drew Kitsch, worked in construction. His parents separated when he was one year old, and Brody and Daman, his two older brothers, were raised by their mother in a mobile home park. He also has two younger maternal half-sisters. Kitsch lived in Port Moody and Anmore. He attended Gleneagle Secondary School in Coquitlam. Kitsch started playing ice hockey at the age of three and played junior ice hockey for the Langley Hornets in the British Columbia Hockey League before suffering from a knee injury in 2002. Kitsch studied nutrition and economics at the University of Lethbridge for a year, and his brother lived with him after his injury.

Personal life

In 2012, Kitsch bought 3.64 acres (1.47 ha) of Lake Austin, Texas, and began building a house there in 2015. Kitsch currently resides in Bozeman, Montana.

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Career

After being given the opportunity to pursue modeling with IMG, Kitsch moved to New York City in 2002; he studied acting there as well as becoming a nutritionist and personal trainer. For a time in New York, he was homeless and began sleeping on subway trains in the middle of the night. He moved from Los Angeles to Abercrombie & Fitch, where he modeled for Diesel and Abercrombie & Fitch. He appeared in celebrity photographer John Russo's limited edition coffee table book About Face.

Kitsch appeared in his debut on the NBC sports teen drama television series Friday Night Lights, based on Peter Berg's 2004 film of the same name and set in the fictional town of Dillon, Texas. Tim Riggins, a high school student who is the Dillon Panthers' fullback/running back, was portrayed by Kitsch for five seasons. The series debuted in October 2006 to widespread critical acclaim from critics and over 7.7 million viewers. Kitsch hasn't confirmed that he would not reprise his role in a potential film sequel to the television series. In The Covenant, he appeared alongside Steven Strait, Sebastian Stan, Laura Ramsey, Toby Hemingway, Jessica Lucas, and Chace Crawford. He signed up to play Gambit in the X-Men franchise spinoff X-Men Origins: Wolverine, released in May 2009. "I knew of him but I didn't know the following about him," Kitsch says of the fan-favorite character Gambit. I'm positive I'm still will be exposed to this. I love the character, I love the abilities, and I love what they did with him. I didn't know this much, but it was a blessing to step in and create my own version of him. To say the least, I'm excited for it."

Kitsch appeared in Steven Silver's The Bang Bang Bang Club, a South African drama that chronicles the country's last bloody days of the apartheid. Kevin Carter, a photojournalist, had to lose 35 pounds in two months to appear in the role of photojournalist Kevin Carter, along with Ryan Phillippe and Malin kerman. Kitsch was chosen by the Hollywood Reporter as one of the young male actors 'pushing – or being coerced' into taking over Hollywood as the new 'A-List' in November 2010.' He played John Carter, a Confederate soldier who is transported to Mars in Edgar Rice Burroughs' fantasy film A Princess of Mars. Kitsch said, "I'm very proud of John Carter" despite the fact that the film failed at the box office. "I'm not recognized as a person or an actor" in the box office. Kitsch appeared in Peter Berg's Battleship, based on Hasbro's toy game, as Lieutenant Alex Hopper in May 2012. Jesse Plemons, Berg's co-star and former Friday Night Lights co-star, appeared in the film. Blake Lively, Salma Hayek, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson appeared in Oliver Stone's Savages in July 2012. Drew McWeeny, a film critic for HitFix, wrote a glowing review of Kitsch's friendship with Johnson, which he characterized as "not only credible but lived in and authentic throughout the film." Kitsch was used in this film in the right way, with an ensemble cast who pushed him or taunted him in scenes that culminated in him being played with the right emotion. McWeeny's reviewer wrote that he was used with the right sense of emotion.

Kitsch appeared in The Grand Seduction, a remake of Jean-François Pouliot's French-Canadian La Grande Séduction (2003), directed by Don McKellar, and another Peter Berg film, Lone Survivor, based on Marcus Luttrell's book. In Ryan Murphy's The Normal Heart, he stars Jim Parsons, Julia Roberts, and Mark Ruffalo. Kitsch was in talks to play the lead role in the American remake of The Raid. The remake never became a reality. Kitsch appeared in the sophomore season of True Detective, starring Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams, and Colin Farrell. Kitsch was supposed to write, direct, and star in the drama Pieces.

Kitsch appeared in American Assassin and Only the Brave in 2017. In 2018, he starred as cult leader David Koresh in the Paramount Channel miniseries Waco. Kitsch had an in-development series that landed on HBO later this year. Kitsch will appear as the cast and produce the series from Sons of Anarchy writer John Barcheski and producer Matt Shakman. Kitsch appeared in 21 Bridges with Chadwick Boseman and Sienna Miller in 2019. Kitsch would lead In Neill Blomkamp's Inferno, which was also confirmed in 2019.

Kitsch appeared in the German television series The Defeated, which also starred Michael C. Hall, Logan Marshall-Green, Nina Hoss, and Tuppence Middleton. In the film Wash Me in the River, where he would have appeared alongside Robert De Niro and John Malkovich, he was hired to replace Colson Baker, also known as Machine Gun Kelly. Kitsch will be recalled by Jack Huston after being barred for reasons unknown. In early 2021, it was revealed that Kitsch would appear opposite Chris Pratt in Antoine Fuqua's The Terminal List. Riley Keough, Constance Wu, and Jeanne Tripplehorn appear on the remainder of the cast. He has also hinted that he has a few things in the "pipeline" that he would like to accomplish but that he will not announce because the contracts are not signed.

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