Taylor Kitsch

Taylor Kitsch

Born: April 8, 1981
in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
Taylor Kitsch is a Canadian actor and model best known for his portrayal of football player Tim Riggins on the NBC series "Friday Night Lights". He was in many movies including the supernatural film "The Covenant", the X-Men spin-off "X-Men Origins: Wolverine", the Disney film "John Carter", the war film "Lone Survivor" and HBO's lgbt drama "The Normal Heart". In November 2014, he was cast in the second season of HBO's popular anthology crime series "True Detective" which costarred fellow Canadian Rachel McAdams. He plays the lead role of David Koresh, founder of the Branch Davidians in the 6-part mini-series Waco.

Movies for Taylor Kitsch...

Title: Painkiller
Character: Glen Kryger
Released: August 10, 2023
Type: TV
The causes and consequences of America's opioid epidemic unfold in this drama following its perpetrators, victims and an investigator seeking the truth.
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Title: Waco: The Aftermath
Character: Older David Koresh (uncredited)
Released: April 16, 2023
Type: TV
Explore the wide-ranging fallout succeeding the tragic events that took place in Waco, TX: the trials of the surviving members of the Branch Davidian sect and the rise of homegrown terrorist, Timothy McVeigh.
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Title: The Terminal List
Character: Ben Edwards
Released: June 30, 2022
Type: TV
Navy SEAL Commander James Reece turns to vengeance as he investigates the mysterious forces behind the murder of his entire platoon. Free from the military’s command structure, Reece applies the lessons he’s learned from nearly two decades of warfare to hunt down the people responsible.
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Title: Shadowplay
Character: Max McLaughlin
Released: October 30, 2020
Type: TV
In 1946 Berlin, an American cop searches for his missing brother while helping a novice German policewoman fight the violent crimes engulfing the city.
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21 Bridges
Title: 21 Bridges
Character: Ray Jackson
Released: October 24, 2019
Type: Movie
An embattled NYPD detective, is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers after uncovering a massive and unexpected conspiracy. As the night unfolds, lines become blurred on who he is pursuing, and who is in pursuit of him.
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Title: Waco
Character: David Koresh
Released: January 24, 2018
Type: TV
The harrowing true story of the 1993 standoff between the FBI, ATF and the Branch Davidians, a spiritual sect led by David Koresh in Waco, TX that resulted in a deadly shootout and fire.
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Only the Brave
Title: Only the Brave
Character: Christopher MacKenzie
Released: September 22, 2017
Type: Movie
Members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots battle deadly wildfires to save an Arizona town.
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American Assassin
Title: American Assassin
Character: 'Ghost'
Released: September 14, 2017
Type: Movie
Following the murder of his fiancée, Mitch Rapp trains under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley. The pair then is enlisted to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on military and civilian targets.
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The Dig
Title: The Dig
Character: Bud
Released: September 6, 2017
Type: Movie
A man helps a woman bury a dead body.
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Bling
Title: Bling
Character: Sam (voice)
Released: May 6, 2016
Type: Movie
Lowly theme park mechanic Sam dreams about his childhood sweetheart Sue. With the mistaken belief that only a bling ring can win the girl of his dreams, Sam plans the most perfect night to propose to his one true love. But when super villain Oscar shows up with his own evil ring that could destroy the city, Sam’s plans are thrown into utter disarray. Mistaking each other’s rings for their own, Sam teams up with his robot super heroes to track down his engagement ring and save the city… learning that it’s not about the size of the bling, but the size of your heart.
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The Grand Seduction
Title: The Grand Seduction
Character: Dr. Lewis
Released: May 30, 2014
Type: Movie
A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis lands in their lap for a trial residence, the townsfolk rally together to charm him into staying. As the doctor’s time in the village winds to a close, acting mayor Murray French has no choice but to pull out all the stops and begin The Grand Seduction.
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The Normal Heart
Title: The Normal Heart
Character: Bruce Niles
Released: May 25, 2014
Type: Movie
The story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial.
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Title: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Released: February 17, 2014
Type: TV
After Jay Leno's second retirement from the program, Jimmy Fallon stepped in as his permanent replacement. After 42 years in Los Angeles the program was brought back to New York.
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Title: Off Camera with Sam Jones
Character: Self
Released: February 6, 2014
Type: TV
Photographer and director Sam Jones sits down with the myriad professionals of television and movies, and other celebrities (great skateboarders, for example), to discuss their development before fame, their passions beyond their careers, and gives them a space to open up about their insight into their business and their own abilities. Filmed in black and white, with a few deep cushion chairs and sparse set, the show relies on Sam's ability to relate to the guests and their will to speak freely with him.
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Title: True Detective
Character: Paul Woodrugh
Released: January 12, 2014
Type: TV
An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.
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Lone Survivor
Title: Lone Survivor
Character: Lieutenant Michael "Mike" Murphy
Released: December 24, 2013
Type: Movie
Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find reserves of strength and resilience to fight to the finish.
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Savages
Title: Savages
Character: Chon
Released: July 6, 2012
Type: Movie
Pot growers Ben and Chon face off against the Mexican drug cartel who kidnapped their shared girlfriend.
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Battleship
Title: Battleship
Character: Lieutenant Alex Hopper
Released: April 11, 2012
Type: Movie
When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of an international naval coalition which becomes the world's last hope for survival as they engage the hostile alien force of unimaginable strength. While taking on the invaders, Hopper must also try to live up to the potential that his brother, and his fiancée's father—an Admiral—expect of him.
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John Carter
Title: John Carter
Character: John Carter
Released: March 7, 2012
Type: Movie
John Carter is a war-weary, former military captain who's inexplicably transported to the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars) and reluctantly becomes embroiled in an epic conflict. It's a world on the brink of collapse, and Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.
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The Bang Bang Club
Title: The Bang Bang Club
Character: Kevin Carter
Released: April 22, 2011
Type: Movie
In the early to mid '90s, when the South African system of apartheid was in its death throes, four photographers - Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and João Silva - bonded by their friendship and a sense of purpose, worked together to chronicle the violence and upheaval leading up to the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as president. Their work is risky and dangerous, potentially fatally so, as they thrust themselves into the middle of chaotic clashes between forces backed by the government (including Inkatha Zulu warriors) and those in support of Mandela's African National Congress.
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The Hill Chris Climbed: The Gridiron Heroes Story
Title: The Hill Chris Climbed: The Gridiron Heroes Story
Character: Self
Released: January 11, 2011
Type: Movie
The compelling, heart-wrenching story of high school football star Chris Carnales, whose life changed when he became paralyzed after breaking his neck in a football game. Chris soon learned of others who suffered similar injuries and, with the help of his father, overcame tremendous pain to start an organization with one goal in mind: get immediate help to other victims and their families. He called it Gridiron Heroes.
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Weapon X Mutant Files
Title: Weapon X Mutant Files
Character: Self
Released: September 15, 2009
Type: Movie
The nine main mutants in the film-plus William Stryker-are each given the behind-the-scenes treatment in Mutant Files. Each segment starts with a character giving a straight-up cheesy monologue before we're treated to plenty of on-set footage and interviews with the actors, producer Lauren Shuler Donner, director Gavin Hood, stunt coordinator JJ Perry, and visual effects supervisors Patrick McClung and Craig Lyn. Highlights include Kevin Duran's makeup-intensive transformation into Blob, and Jackman talking about how he and Liev Schreiber egged each other on to do their own stunts.
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Title: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Character: Remy LeBeau
Released: April 28, 2009
Type: Movie
After seeking to live a normal life, Logan sets out to avenge the death of his girlfriend by undergoing the mutant Weapon X program and becoming Wolverine.
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Gospel Hill
Title: Gospel Hill
Character: Joel Herrod
Released: February 9, 2008
Type: Movie
Gospel Hill tells the intersecting story of two men in the fictional South Carolina town of Julia. Danny Glover plays John Malcolm, the son of a slain civil rights activist. Jack Herrod (Tom Bower) is the former sheriff who never got to the bottom of the murder. Their paths begin to cross when a development corporation comes to town with plans to raze Julia's historic Gospel Hill.
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Title: Friday Night Lights
Character: Tim Riggins
Released: October 3, 2006
Type: TV
The trials and triumphs of life in the small town of Dillon, Texas, where high school football is everything.
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The Covenant
Title: The Covenant
Character: Pogue Parry
Released: September 8, 2006
Type: Movie
Four young men who belong to a supernatural legacy are forced to battle a fifth power long thought to have died out. Another great force they must contend with is the jealousy and suspicion that threatens to tear them apart.
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Snakes on a Plane
Title: Snakes on a Plane
Character: Kyle
Released: August 17, 2006
Type: Movie
FBI agent Neville Flynn boards a flight from Honolulu, Hawaii to Los Angeles, escorting a key witness to testify against a mob boss at an upcoming trial. An on-board assassin releases a crate full of hundreds of deadly venomous snakes in an attempt to eliminate the witness. Flynn and a host of frightened passengers and crew must band together to survive the slithery threat.
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John Tucker Must Die
Title: John Tucker Must Die
Character: Justin
Released: July 27, 2006
Type: Movie
After discovering they are all dating the same same guy, three popular students from different cliques band together for revenge, so they enlist the help of a new gal in town and conspire to break the jerk's heart, while destroying his reputation.
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Title: Kyle XY
Character: Male Camper
Released: June 26, 2006
Type: TV
A suburban family that takes in a mysterious teen naive to the world around him. As Kyle begins to show signs of brilliance, solving the mystery of his origin and potential abilities becomes the family's mission.
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Title: Godiva's
Character: Colm
Released: March 16, 2005
Type: TV
Godiva's is a Canadian television comedy-drama series, which debuted on Bravo! and Citytv in 2005; each episode is one hour in length. It completed a successful two-season run in 2006, but though the show received rave reviews, it was cancelled by CHUM broadcasting. There are currently attempts at getting a third season made. The series was created by Michael MacLennan with Julia Keatley of Keatley Entertainment. The series was nominated for numerous Gemini Awards including Best Series. It was celebrated for its intelligent, fast-paced depiction of young Canadians in the restaurant industry.
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Title: The Terminal List: Dark Wolf
Character: Ben Edwards
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
An elevated espionage thriller set five years before the events of "The Terminal List" following Ben Edwards' journey from Navy SEAL to CIA paramilitary operator, and exploring the darker side of warfare and the human cost that comes with it.
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Pieces
Title: Pieces
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The lives of three friends from Detroit are changed once they intercept a drug run.
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Inferno
Title: Inferno
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A cop is called to investigate a seemingly ordinary murder in the New Mexico desert. The arrival of the FBI confirms his suspicions that something bigger – perhaps extraterrestrial – is at play. The hunt for the killer puts him face-to-face with a humanoid beast who will stop at nothing to exterminate the one witness to the crime. As the hunt becomes personal with the abduction of his wife, everything the police officer knows about the universe will be challenged, and our connection to other life forces in the universe will be revealed.
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Title: American Primeval
Character: Isaac
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
An exploration of the birth of the American West. Follow the “violent” collisions of cultures, religions and communities as men and women fight and die for control of this new world – for a land they truly believe is their destiny.