Celebrity Biographies
Taylor kitsch
Taylor Kitsch is a strong and mysterious guy, one of those capable of stopping a fight with a simple gesture. He has worked in both film and television, and in recent years his roles have become more complex and his performances more mature. His look, serious and penetrating, is one of his best weapons.
Taylor Kitsch was born in Kelowna, Canada, in 1981. There was no trace of artistic or stage tradition in his family – his mother was a manager in a liquor company and his father was a construction worker – so he did not develop an early interest in acting. Thus, he dedicated his adolescence to ice hockey, a sport he practiced until a knee injury forced him to retire. In 2002, at the age of 21, he went to New York to try his luck as a model and study acting.
His debut came in 2006 with a role in Friday Night Lights , a television series about life in a small town in the United States where American football was everything. Here Taylor played Tim Riggins, an angsty gambler with a drinking problem. His work on this production turned him into a young promise who was much more than just a pretty face and a sculpted body in the gym.
His film career took longer to take off. He had to go through some crappy movies – All Against Him , Snakes on a Plane and Gospel Hill – to land a role in a hugely popular movie: X-Men Origins: Wolverine . With Oliver Stone ‘s Savages , he proved he was the perfect fit for the tough guy wounded by his past. However, the big screen has not yet seen the best version of him, since he has only managed to get out of the action genre with the little-known The Bang Bang Club , a Canadian film in which he played the famous photographer Kevin Carter.
His best roles have come to him thanks to the small screen. In 2014 he participated in the successful television movie The Normal Heart , where he played a homosexual activist from the 80s, a time when AIDS was a true epidemic and was described as “gay cancer”. The following year he got his chance in the second season of True Detective , in which he was Paul Woodrugh, a patrol officer haunted by his past in the war.
Taylor Kitsch is having a hard time landing good movie roles. Her physical appearance has pigeonholed her in the usual action movies, in blockbusters without dramatic density. However, his work for television is discovering a talented actor, capable of creating characters as tough as they are mysterious. The question is: when will they realize this in Hollywood?