Taylor Kitsch is a Canadian actor and model who has portrayed Tim Riggins in the NBC television series Friday Night Lights.
25 Facts About Taylor Kitsch
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Taylor Kitsch has worked in films such as X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Battleship, John Carter, Savages, Lone Survivor, The Grand Seduction, American Assassin, Only The Brave, 21 Bridges and The Terminal List.
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Taylor Kitsch's parents separated when he was one year old, and he and his two older brothers, Brody and Daman, were raised by their mother in a mobile home park.
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Taylor Kitsch started playing ice hockey at age three, and played junior ice hockey for the Langley Hornets in the British Columbia Hockey League, before a knee injury ended his career in 2002.
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Taylor Kitsch moved to New York City in 2002, after receiving an opportunity to pursue modeling with IMG; he studied acting there as well, and became a nutritionist and personal trainer.
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Taylor Kitsch appeared in the limited edition coffee table book About Face by celebrity photographer John Russo.
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In 2006, Taylor Kitsch was cast in his breakout role 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.
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Taylor Kitsch has ruled out reprising his role in a potential film sequel to the television series.
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Taylor Kitsch played Pogue Parry in The Covenant, alongside Steven Strait, Sebastian Stan, Laura Ramsey, Toby Hemingway, Jessica Lucas, and Chace Crawford.
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In 2010, Taylor Kitsch starred in Steven Silver's The Bang Bang Club, an historical drama set in South Africa that documents the final bloody days of the apartheid.
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Taylor Kitsch had to lose 35 pounds in two months to play the role of photojournalist Kevin Carter, alongside Ryan Phillippe and Malin Akerman.
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McWeeny wrote that Taylor Kitsch was used the right way in this film with an ensemble cast that pushed him or challenged him in scenes which resulted in his playing them with appropriate intensity.
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In 2013, Taylor Kitsch starred in The Grand Seduction, a remake of Jean-Francois Pouliot's French-Canadian La Grande Seduction, directed by Don McKellar, and another Peter Berg film, Lone Survivor, based on Marcus Luttrell's book.
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Taylor Kitsch plays alongside Jim Parsons, Julia Roberts, and Mark Ruffalo in Ryan Murphy's The Normal Heart which aired on HBO on May 25,2014.
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Taylor Kitsch was in negotiations for the lead role in the American remake of The Raid.
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Taylor Kitsch starred in the sophomore season of True Detective, opposite Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams, and Colin Farrell.
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Taylor Kitsch was set to write, direct and star in the drama Pieces.
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In 2017, Taylor Kitsch starred in American Assassin and Only the Brave.
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Later that year, it was announced that Taylor Kitsch had an in-development series which landed at HBO.
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In 2019, Taylor Kitsch starred in 21 Bridges with Chadwick Boseman and Sienna Miller.
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Also in 2019, it was announced that Taylor Kitsch would appear as the lead in Neill Blomkamp's Inferno.
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In 2020, Kitsch starred in the German TV series The Defeated, which starred Michael C Hall, Logan Marshall-Green, Nina Hoss, and Tuppence Middleton.
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Taylor Kitsch was tapped to replace Colson Baker, better known as Machine Gun Kelly, in the film Wash Me in the River, where he would have starred alongside Robert De Niro and John Malkovich.
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Taylor Kitsch has teased he has a couple of things in the "pipeline" that he would like to accomplish but cannot announce as the contracts are not signed.
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Taylor Kitsch purchased 3.64 acres of land on Lake Austin, Texas in 2012 and began building a house there in 2015.