Aden Young
Aden Young | |
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Born | |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1991–present |
Spouse |
Loene Carmen (m. 2014) |
Children | 2 |
Aden Young (born 30 November 1971
Early life
Young was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His father Chip Young, an American born in Missouri, was a well-known CBC broadcaster and children's book author, as well as composer of Canadian classic 'Honky The Christmas Goose',[4][5] while his mother is a nurse from Newcastle, Australia. His family left Toronto for Australia in 1981. Young attended Galston High and Australian Theatre For Young People as a teenager.[6]
Career
Young was cast in his first role, as a young Frenchman in Bruce Beresford's religious epic Black Robe (1991)[7] on his 18th birthday.[8] International acclaim followed and Young was dubbed "the next Marlon Brando" in France and "the next Mel Gibson" in Hollywood but returned to Australia to support the local industry and focus on projects that he was more drawn to.[9][10]
He took the lead role in Australian arthouse noir film Broken Highway (1993), directed by pioneering female filmmaker Laurie McInnes, which screened in competition in Cannes[11] but received polarized reviews.[12]
Young was nominated for an
After making Australian films River Street, Cosi, Hotel de Love and Paradise Road in quick succession, Young portrayed a starving Polish sculptor who spurns his lover Jessica Lange in US film Cousin Bette and as slacker desperado Buck in Under Heaven, a modern reworking of Henry James novel The Wings of the Dove.[18]
The early 2000s saw him starring as a traumatized Canadian soldier in War Bride, a German priest in Serenades, and smaller roles in The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course and a doctor in Cox's Molokai.
In 2004 he signed onto the Sydney Theatre Company production of Hedda Gabler as Cate Blanchett's tortured alcoholic lover Ejlert Lovberg.[19] The production also had a 2006 season at Brooklyn Academy of Music and spawned documentary In the Company of Actors.[20][21]
Young directed the short film The Rose of Ba Ziz (2007),
Compelling film cameos followed, in World War I drama Beneath Hill 60 and French film The Tree, as Charlotte Gainsbourg's husband before starring as a besieged father dying from tetanus in the Kriv Stenders period gothic western Dark Frontier aka Lucky Country.[28][29]
Young reunited with Beresford for Mao's Last Dancer (2009), based on the 2003 best-selling autobiography of Chinese ballet dancer Li Cunxin, playing a Texan oil tycoon.[30] Beresford stated that Young's "a very cooperative and thoughtful actor."[31]
Young mimed the hit song "Even Though I'm A Woman",[32] by the Australian female indie supergroup Seeker Lover Keeper, in the 2011 music video directed by Natalie Van Dungen. He played American techno geek Meyer in the Jason Statham/Robert De Niro action film Killer Elite and performed a cameo as Dr Victor Frankenstein in I, Frankenstein.[33]
Young edited Paul Cox documentaries Kalaupapa Heaven[34] Tajiri and feature film Salvation.[35][36] He also directed Carmen's music videos for "Everyone You Ever Knew (Is Coming Back To Haunt You" (2015)[37] and "Nashville High" (2007) as well as editing her music video "Mimic the Rain" (2009).[38]
In June 2012, Young was announced as the lead character Daniel Holden in the
Young played lawyer Stephen Roche in the well received Don't Tell, the true story of a young Queensland woman who sued the church over sexual abuse she suffered at her Anglican school. The film also starred Jack Thompson and Rachel Griffiths. Young was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards.[45]
In 2017 Young took the lead in Damnation[46] before departing over creative differences.
He played villain Cyrus Mendenhall in Canadian indie drama Angelique's Isle in 2018,[47] and starred in the 2019 romantic comedy Elsewhere.[48]
In 2023 he appeared in Christian Sparkes's thriller drama The King Tide as Beau, a doctor left essentially irrelevant after a child with mystical healing powers turns up in a village.[49]
Personal life
Young has two sons, Dutch (born 2007) and Chester (born 2011), with his longtime partner, Australian singer-songwriter-musician-actress
A portrait of Young by artist James Powditch was a 2008 Archibald Prize finalist. Young also appears in Powditch's 2012 work Berserk Warriors.[51]
Filmography
As actor
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1991 | Black Robe | Daniel | |
1992 | Over the Hill | Nick | |
1993 | Sniper | Doug Papich | |
Love in Limbo | Barry McJannet | ||
Broken Highway | Angel | ||
Shotgun Wedding | Jimmy Becker | ||
1994 | Exile | Peter Costello | |
Metal Skin | Joe | ||
1995 | Audacious | Stanley | |
1996 | Cosi | Nick | |
River Street | Ben | ||
Hotel de Love | Rick Dunne | ||
1997 | Paradise Road | Bill Seary | |
1998 | Under Heaven | Buck | |
Cousin Bette |
Count Wenceslas Steinbach | ||
1999 | Molokai: The Story of Father Damien | Dr. Kalewis | |
2001 | The War Bride | Charlie | |
Serenades | Johann | ||
2002 | The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course | Ron Buckwhiler | |
2004 | Human Touch | George | |
2005 | The Bet |
Angus | |
2007 | In the Company of Actors | Himself/Eljert Lovburg | |
The Goat That Ate Time | Narrator | Short film; voice only | |
Flipsical | Unknown | Short film | |
2008 | Salvation | Gloria's Acolyte | |
2009 | Lucky Country | Nat Doole | |
Shot Open | Dodek | Short film | |
Mao's Last Dancer | Dilworth | ||
2010 | Beneath Hill 60 | Major North | |
The Tree | Peter | ||
Kissing Point | Mark Logan | Short film | |
2011 | Killer Elite | Meier | |
2013 | Final Recipe | Sean | |
2014 | I, Frankenstein | Dr. Victor Frankenstein | |
Frontera | Sheriff Randall Hunt | ||
2016 | The Unseen | Bob Longmore | |
2017 | Don't Tell | Stephen Roche | |
2018 | Angelique's Isle | Cyrus Mendenhall | |
2018 | Elsewhere | Bruno | |
2023 | The King Tide | Beau |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
2003 | After the Deluge | Young Cliff | TV movie |
2006 | Two Twisted | Patrick Dempsey/Clone | Season 1, Episode 7: "Soft Boiled Luck" |
2007 | The Starter Wife | Jorge Stewart | 6 episodes |
2011 | East West 101 | Kendrick | Season 3, Episode 6: "Behold a Pale Horse" Season 3, Episode 7: "Revelation" |
2013–2016 | Rectify | Daniel Holden | 4 seasons, 30 episodes |
2014 | Rake | Joshua | Season 3, Episode 3 |
The Code |
Randall Keats | Main role: Series 1 6 episodes | |
2015 | The Principal | Adam Bilic | 3 episodes |
2017 | The Disappearance | Luke Sullivan | 6 episodes |
2019 | Reckoning | Mike Serrato | Netflix mini-series; Main role; (10 episodes) |
2023 | Wellmania | Gabriel Wolf | Netflix mini-series; 1 episode |
2024 | Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent | Det. Sgt. Henry Graff | Main role |
As director/writer/editor
Year | Title | Credits | Notes | ||
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Director | Writer | Editor
| |||
1998 | The Order | Yes | Yes | Yes | Short film |
2007 | The Rose of Ba Ziz | Yes | Yes | Yes | Short film |
Loene Carmen Nashville High |
Yes | No | Yes | Music video | |
2009 | Loene Carmen Mimic the Rain | No | No | Yes | Music video |
Salvation | No | No | Yes | Feature Film | |
Kalaupapa Heaven | No | No | Yes | Documentary film | |
2011 | Waste Not | No | No | Yes | Documentary film |
2015 | Lo Carmen Everyone You Ever Knew (Is Coming Back To Haunt You | Yes | No | Yes | Music video |
Awards and nominations
- Film Critic's Association of Australia Best Actor Supporting Role Nomination forDon't Tell'[52]
- Blood in the Snow Canadian Film Festival Award for Best Actor - Winner for The Unseen (2016)
- Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series Nomination for Rectify (2016)[53]
- Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series Nomination for Rectify (2015)[54]
- Satellite Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama Nomination for Rectify (2013)[55]
- Australian Film Institute AwardsNomination for Best Actor in a Lead Role for River Street (1996)
- Australian Film Institute AwardsNomination for Best Actor in a Lead Role for Metal Skin (1995)
- Australian Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for Metal Skin (1995)
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External links
- Aden Young at IMDb
- Aden Young ('Rectify') on Critics' Choice nod for playing 'confused and broken' ex-con - Gold Derby 2015
- Aden Young - Rectify Golden Globes Interview
- Aden Young Delivers Fiery Response To Critics Of His Slowburning Series Rectify - Daily Telegraph 2014
- Seeker Lover Keeper clip 'Even Though I'm A Woman' - 2011
- Seeker Lover Keeper clip 'Even Though I'm A Woman' behind the scenes - 2011
- "The Young And Restless" - The Sunday Age by Peter Wilmoth, 24 April 1994
- In the Company of Actors