Kodi Smit-McPhee Biography

Kodi Smit-McPhee (born 13 June 1996) is an Australian actor. He is best known for his roles as The Boy in The Road, Owen in Let Me In, Norman Babcock in ParaNorman, Alexander in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Smit-McPhee will portray a young Nightcrawler in the 2016 film X-Men: Apocalypse. He will also play Will Burrows (the main protagonist) in the upcoming film adaptation of the novel Tunnels.

Early life

Smit-McPhee was born in Adelaide, South Australia, the son of Sonja and Andy McPhee. His father is an actor and former professional wrestler. His sister is actress and singer Sianoa Smit-McPhee.

Career

Smit-McPhee's first feature film role was in Romulus, My Father, which garnered him the 2007 AFI Award for Best Young Actor as well as a Best Actor nomination. His appearance in 2009's The Road saw him receive a Critics' Choice Award nomination for Best Young Actor and a 2010 Australian Film Institute (AFI) nomination for Best International Actor. The following year, he starred in Let Me In, for which he received a 2010 Critics Choice Award nomination for Best Young Actor for his performance in the film; he was also nominated for the film Matching Jack the same year. In 2012, he filmed The Congress. The film premiered at the 2013 Directors' Fortnight at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival.

Smit-McPhee then starred in ParaNorman, in which he lent his voice as the lead role of Norman. The film was nominated for Best Animated Feature for the 2013 Academy Awards, and also received a 2013 BAFTA Award nomination for Best Animated Film. Later the same year, Smit-McPhee had a role in Dead Europe, which premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. His next role came in The Wilderness of James in the title role of James. He also starred in A Birder's Guide to Everything, which premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, and played Benvolio in a film adaption of Romeo and Juliet. He co-starred in the 20th Century Fox film Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014). The project reunited him with director Matt Reeves, with whom he previously worked with on the film Let Me In.

In 2013, Smit-McPhee filmed the action science fiction film Young Ones. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2014. Soon after, he appeared in Slow West, which was released in 2015. In March 2014, he was cast in the Nine Network's eight-part drama series Gallipoli; which was broadcast in February and March 2015, the year that marks the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing. He plays 17-year-old Thomas "Tolly" Johnson, who ages himself up so that he can enlist with his brother Bevan and ends up fighting at Gallipoli in the campaign that helped create the Anzac legend. The series is produced by Endemol Australia and was shot over a three-month period starting in March 2014. On February 17, 2015, Bryan Singer announced that he cast Smit-McPhee as Nightcrawler in X-Men: Apocalypse.

Personal life

Smit-McPhee lives in Los Angeles, California, with his girlfriend .

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Stranded	Teddy	Short film
2006	Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America	Toby Connelly	Television film
2007	Romulus, My Father	Raimond
2007	The King	Young John Wesley	Television film
2009	Tinytown	Davis
2009	The Road	Boy
2010	Let Me In	Owen
2010	Matching Jack	Finn
2012	ParaNorman	Norman Babcock	Voice
2012	Dead Europe	Josef
2013	The Congress	Aaron Wright
2013	Romeo and Juliet	Benvolio
2013	A Birder's Guide to Everything	David Portnoy
2014	Dawn of the Planet of the Apes	Alexander
2014	All the Wilderness	James Charm
2014	Young Ones	Jerome Holm
2014	Maya the Bee	Willy	Voice
2015	Slow West	Jay Cavendish
2016	X-Men: Apocalypse	Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler	Replaces Alan Cumming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King	Brandon	Episode: "Umney's Last Case"
2006	Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King	Jackson Evans	Episode: "The Fifth Quarter"
2006	Monarch Cove	Young Jake	4 episodes
2015	Gallipoli	Thomas "Tolly" Johnson	Miniseries

Awards and nominations

Award	Year	Category	Result	Work
Australian Film Institute	2007	Young Actor's Award		Romulus, My Father
		Best Lead Actor
Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards	2008	Special Achievement Award
		Best Actor - Supporting Role
Young Artist Award	2009	Best Performance in a Feature Film - Leading Young Actor
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards	2010	Best Young Actor/Actress		The Road
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards		Best Supporting Actor
Saturn Award		Best Performance by a Younger Actor
Australian Film Institute		Best Actor
		Best Supporting Actor		Matching Jack
Phoenix Film Critics Society		Best Performance by a Youth (Male)		Let Me In
Critic's Choice Award	2011	Best Young Actor
Saturn Award		Best Performance by a Younger Actor
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards		Best Actor
Young Artist Awards		Best Ensemble for a Feature Film
Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards		Best Male Supporting Actor		Matching Jack
Saturn Award	2015	Best Performance by a Younger Actor		Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Logie Awards	2015	Most Popular New Talent		Gallipoli