Biography
Ellar Coltrane (born August 27, 1994) is an American actor. They are best known for their role as Mason Evans Jr. in Richard Linklater's film Boyhood, for which they won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer, as well as their roles in Lone Star State of Mind (2002), Fast Food Nation (2006) and Barry (2016).
Also known as
Ellar Coltrane Kinney Salmon · Ellar Salmon
Photos
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Roles across career
Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).
26
Acting credits
0
Directing
0
Writing
1
Other crew
Most critically rated
Highest TMDB score (min 100 votes)
- 1
★ 7.5Boyhood
2014 · movie · as Mason
- 2
★ 6.7The Good Lord Bird
2020 · tv · as Salmon Brown
- 3
★ 6.5The Last Movie Star
2018 · movie · as Shane McAvoy
- 4
★ 6.4The Daily Show
1996 · tv · as Self
- 5
★ 6.1Fast Food Nation
2006 · movie · as Jay Anderson
- 6
★ 5.8The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · tv · as Self
- 7
★ 5.7Barry
2016 · movie · as Will
- 8
★ 5.5The Circle
2017 · movie · as Mercer Regalado
Most commercially successful
Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)
- 15,561 votes
Boyhood
2014 · movie
- 24,606 votes
The Circle
2017 · movie
- 3647 votes
The Daily Show
1996 · tv
- 4
480 votesThe Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot
2019 · movie
- 5399 votes
Fast Food Nation
2006 · movie
- 6380 votes
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · tv
- 7209 votes
Barry
2016 · movie
- 8120 votes
The Last Movie Star
2018 · movie
Career timeline
By release / first air year · movie & TV merged
