Bio
Taylor Kitsch is a Canadian actor and model best known for his role as Tim Riggins, the main rival to star running back Brian Williams, in the football drama television series Friday Night Lights, from 2006-2011.
Kitsch kick-started his career in 2002 when he moved to New York to study with renowned acting coach Sheila Grey. He landed his first major feature film the following year, and has worked consistently in film and television ever since.
Kitsch also starred in the motion picture John Carter for Walt Disney Studios, helmed by Academy Award-winning director Andrew Stanton, and Gospel Hill, with Julia Stiles, Samuel L. Jackson and Danny Glover, directed by Giancarlo Esposito.
Kitsch starred in Steven Silver's The Bang Bang Club, portraying Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Kevin Carter, whose work in South Africa helps to bring about the fall of apartheid.
Other feature film credits include Renny Harlin's horror flick The Covenant, Richard Ellis' cult classic Snakes on a Plane, Betty Thomas' comedy John Tucker Must Die and most significantly, starring as Gambit in Gavin Hood's 2009 sci-fi action adventure, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, opposite Hugh Jackman.