1. Aden Young was born on 30 November 1971 and is a Canadian-Australian actor.
16 Facts About Aden Young
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Aden Young is best known for his portrayal of Daniel Holden in the SundanceTV drama Rectify, for which he was twice nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series.
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Aden Young has appeared in American, Canadian and Australian productions and since 2024 has performed the lead role of Det.
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Aden Young was cast in his first role, as a young Frenchman in Bruce Beresford's religious epic Black Robe on his 18th birthday.
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International acclaim followed and Aden Young was dubbed "the next Marlon Brando" in France and "the next Mel Gibson" in Hollywood but returned to Australia to support the local industry and focus on projects that he was more drawn to.
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Aden Young took the lead role in Australian arthouse noir film Broken Highway, directed by pioneering female filmmaker Laurie McInnes, which screened in competition in Cannes but received polarized reviews.
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Aden Young was nominated for an Australian Film Institute Best Actor award and won a Film Critics Circle of Australia Best Actor award for his role as the "ratty-looking loser" Psycho Joe opposite Ben Mendelsohn in Metal Skin, Geoffrey Wright's examination of suburban hopelessness and revhead subculture, which screened internationally in competition at Venice Film Festival and Stockholm Film Festival among others.
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Aden Young directed the short film The Rose of Ba Ziz, adapted from a children's book written by his father; the film was made over five days on a shoestring budget of $700 and featured Hugo Weaving, Roy Billing, Odessa Aden Young and an appearance by his significant other, Australian singer Loene Carmen, who co-composed the film's score with Jed Kurzel.
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Additionally, Aden Young directed the AFI award-winning 25-minute film The Order.
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Aden Young reunited with Beresford for Mao's Last Dancer, based on the 2003 best-selling autobiography of Chinese ballet dancer Li Cunxin, playing a Texan oil tycoon.
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Aden Young mimed the hit song "Even Though I'm A Woman", by the Australian female indie supergroup Seeker Lover Keeper, in the 2011 music video directed by Natalie Van Dungen.
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Aden Young edited Paul Cox documentaries Kalaupapa Heaven Tajiri and feature film Salvation.
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In June 2012, Aden Young was announced as the lead character Daniel Holden in the SundanceTV Southern Gothic series Rectify, which follows Holden's journey when he is released back to his family in a small Southern town after 19 years on Death Row for the murder of his girlfriend, following new evidence.
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Aden Young was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards.
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In 2017 Aden Young took the lead in Damnation before departing over creative differences.
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Aden Young played villain Cyrus Mendenhall in Canadian indie drama Angelique's Isle in 2018, and starred in the 2019 romantic comedy Elsewhere.