Taylor Kitsch Personal life Kitsch was born in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. His mother worked for the BC liquor board and his father in construction. He has two older brothers and two younger maternal half sisters, and was raised by his single mother in Vancouver. He played junior ice hockey for the Langley Hornets in the British Columbia Hockey League, before a knee injury ended his career. Modeling career Kitsch moved to New York in 2002 after receiving an opportunity to pursue modeling with IMG and studied acting there as well. While in New York, he became a nutritionist and a personal trainer. For a time in New York he was homeless and took to sleeping on subway trains in the middle of the night. In 2004, he relocated to Los Angeles where he modeled for Diesel and Abercrombie & Fitch.He also appears in the limited edition coffee table book About Face by celebrity photographer John Russo. Acting career In 2006, Kitsch was cast in his breakout role on the NBC sports teen drama television series Friday Night Lights based on Peter Bergs 2004 film of the same name. The series centers on the small-town football team Dillon Panthers in the fictional town of Dillon, Texas. Kitsch portrayed for five seasons the role of Tim Riggins, a high school student who is the fullback/running back of the Dillon Panthers. It premiered in October 2006 to universal critical acclaim from critics and over 7.7 million viewers.Kitsch has ruled out reprising the role of Riggins in a potential film sequel to the television series. He played Pogue Parry in The Covenant alongside Steven Strait, Sebastian Stan, Laura Ramsey, Toby Hemingway, Jessica Lucas and Chace Crawford. In February 2008, he signed on to play Gambit in the X-Men franchise spinoff X-Men Origins: Wolverine, released in May 2009. Of the fan-favorite character of Gambit, Kitsch states, I knew of him, but I didnt know the following he had. Im sure Im still going to be exposed to that. I love the character, I love the powers, and I love what they did with him. I didnt know that much, but in my experience, it was a blessing to go in and create my take on him. Im excited for it, to say the least. In 2009, Kitsch starred in Steven Silvers The Bang Bang Club, a historical drama set in South Africa which documents the final bloody days of the apartheid.He had to lose 35 pounds in two months to play the role of photojournalist Kevin Carter, alongside Ryan Phillippe and Malin Åkerman. In November 2010, The Hollywood Reporter named Kitsch as one of the young male actors who are pushing – or being pushed into taking over Hollywood as the new A-List. Kitschs first lead role in a film was in Disneys John Carter, based on Edgar Rice Burroughss novel A Princess of Mars, which was released in March 2012. He played the title role of John Carter, a Confederate soldier who gets transported to Mars. The film made back less than a third of its budget domestically, and worldwide grosses barely recouped its production and marketing costs. Despite this, Kitsch said, Im very proud of John Carter. Box office doesnt validate me as a person, or as an actor. In May 2012, Kitsch starred in Peter Bergs Battleship, an adaptation of Hasbros toy game, as Naval commander Alex Hopper. It, too, failed at the domestic box office, boasting the worst opening in history for a film that cost more than $200 million. Again, international revenues are expected to help mitigate its performance. The film marked his reunion with Berg and former Friday Night Lights co-star, Jesse Plemons. In July 2012, he starred in Oliver Stones Savages with Blake Lively, Salma Hayek, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. HitFixs film critic Drew McWeeny was positive of Kitschs bond with Johnson which he described as not only credible but lived in and authentic throughout the film. McWeeny wrote that Kitsch was used the right way in this film with an ensemble that pushes him or challenges him in scenes which resulted in him playing hard, playing intense. In 2013, Kitsch starred in The Grand Seduction, remake of Jean-François Pouliots French-Canadian La Grande Séduction (2003) directed by Don McKellar,[24] and another Peter Berg film, Lone Survivor, based on Marcus Luttrells book.He will also play alongside Jim Parsons, Julia Roberts and Mark Ruffalo in Ryan Murphys The Normal Heart, whose release is planned for 2014.
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