1. Taran Hourie Killam was born on April 1,1982 and is an American actor and comedian.
39 Facts About Taran Killam
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Taran Killam first garnered attention for his brief stint on the Fox comedy series MADtv during its seventh season between 2001 and 2002, followed by his wider success as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2010 to 2016.
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Taran Killam has appeared in other television series such as Wild 'n Out, The Amanda Show, How I Met Your Mother, New Girl, and in the main cast of Single Parents.
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Taran Killam voiced the title character on the PBS children's cartoon series Nature Cat.
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Taran Killam played the role of King George III in Hamilton at the Richard Rodgers Theatre from January 17,2017 to April 13,2017.
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Taran Killam returned to Broadway in Spamalot at the St James Theatre, where he played the role of Lancelot from October 31,2023 to January 7,2024.
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Taran Killam was born on April 1,1982, in Culver City, California, and lived in Big Bear Lake, California, until age 15.
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Taran Killam's mother toured with The Charlie Daniels Band and has been described as a singer-songwriter.
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Taran Killam's father was a part of the City Garage Theatre Group and has been described as having had acting ambitions.
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Taran Killam is the great-nephew of Rosemarie Bowe, wife of actor Robert Stack.
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Taran Killam attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts.
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Taran Killam attended the UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television "as a musical theater student", where he stated he "spent much of his time working on UCLA's Theater Festival".
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Taran Killam was featured on Nickelodeon's The Amanda Show, a sketch-comedy vehicle for Amanda Bynes.
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Taran Killam played Spaulding, a boy with a crush on Moody in the soap opera parody "Moody's Point".
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Taran Killam joined the cast of MADtv as a featured player during its seventh season from 2001 to 2002.
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Taran Killam was a regular cast member on the third and fourth seasons of Wild 'n Out.
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In 2005, Taran Killam co-starred in the television pilot Nobody's Watching, which never aired on network TV.
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Taran Killam co-starred in the 2004 Disney Channel original film Stuck in the Suburbs.
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Taran Killam has appeared on Scrubs and Scrubs: Interns as Jimmy.
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Taran Killam appeared as a contestant on the December 7,2006 episode of The Price Is Right.
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Taran Killam has been in Big Fat Liar, Just Married, Anderson's Cross, and My Best Friend's Girl.
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Taran Killam was a member of the Los Angeles-based improvisational and sketch-comedy troupe the Groundlings.
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On September 25,2010, Taran Killam joined the cast of Saturday Night Live for the 36th season, making him the second Nickelodeon veteran to join SNL and the second SNL cast member who was previously a cast member on the sketch show MADtv.
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Taran Killam named Eddie Murphy as his favorite SNL cast member and Arcade Fire as his favorite musical guest.
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Taran Killam said he was not told why his contract was not renewed.
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On November 10,2012, Taran Killam appeared with Kenan Thompson and Anne Hathaway in a SNL music video, "The Legend of Mokiki and the Sloppy Swish".
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In December 2011, Taran Killam replicated the Robyn video "Call Your Girlfriend" in a small writer's room and posted it to YouTube.
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When interviewed on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Taran Killam stated that he had not known the dance shown in the song's official video until Robyn was scheduled to appear on SNL as a guest; he watched the video repeatedly until he could perform it himself.
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In 2011, Taran Killam appeared in Community episode "Regional Holiday Music" as Mr Radison, a parody of Will Schuester from Glee.
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In 2013, Taran Killam ventured into the spy genre and the comics industry with The Illegitimates, a six-issue comics miniseries co-written by Marc Andreyko, illustrated by Kevin Sharpe and published by IDW Publishing.
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Taran Killam appears in the 2013 film 12 Years a Slave, playing the role of Abram Hamilton, one of the kidnappers who brings the main character into slavery.
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Taran Killam is a fan of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, Raphael his favorite turtle, and successfully lobbied for a role in the 2014 film as Channel 5 staff.
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Taran Killam made six guest appearances as Gary Blauman on his wife Cobie Smulders' TV series, How I Met Your Mother.
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In 2015, Taran Killam provided the voice of the titular character on the PBS Kids show Nature Cat, along with SNL alumni Kate McKinnon, Bobby Moynihan, and Kenan Thompson.
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On January 17,2017, Taran Killam succeeded Rory O'Malley in the role of King George III in the Broadway musical Hamilton.
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Taran Killam produced, scripted, directed and starred in the comic hitman film Killing Gunther, given a general release in fall 2017.
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In March 2018, Taran Killam was cast as a lead in the comedy pilot Single Parents for ABC, which was picked up to series for a premiere on September 26 of that year.
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Taran Killam plays the recurring role of Ludo Radovic in the series High Potential, which started airing on ABC in 2024.
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Taran Killam is an avid fan of the Los Angeles Rams, often being spotted at local home games.