Taylor Kitsch | Rotten Tomatoes (2024)

Highest Rated: 94% The Normal Heart (2014)

Lowest Rated: 4% The Covenant (2006)

Birthday: Apr 8, 1981

Birthplace: Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

Taylor Kitsch became television's latest teenage bad-boy with the premiere of NBC's "Friday Night Lights" (2006-2011), playing a small-town Texas football team's brooding yet charismatic ne'er-do-well. A former minor-league athlete himself, Kitsch's circ*mspect route to stardom took him from the hockey rinks of British Columbia to sleeping on New York subways to the pivotal role of the swashbuckling superhero Gambit in the 2009 summer blockbuster entry "X-Men Origins: Wolverine." His "Friday Night Lights" boss, producer-writer Peter Berg, went on to proclaim Kitsch "a ridiculous, unreal mix of acting talent and outrageous good looks" - a sentiment few people could argue with as the heartthrob continued to win over fans on both the big and small screen.

Highest rated movies

94% The Normal Heart

87% Only the Brave

75% Lone Survivor

61% The Grand Seduction

54% 21 Bridges

52% John Carter

50% Savages

49% The Bang Bang Club

Photos

Taylor Kitsch

True Detective, Taylor Kitsch, 'True Detective: Season 1 Characters (streaming only)', Season 2, Ep. #10, ©HBO

True Detective, Taylor Kitsch, 'Night Finds You', Season 2, Ep. #2, 06/28/2015, ©HBOMR

BATTLESHIP, Taylor Kitsch, 2012. ph: Frank Masi/©Universal Pictures

THE COVENANT, Sebastian Stan, Taylor Kitsch, 2006. ©Screen Gems

AMERICAN ASSASSIN, TAYLOR KITSCH, 2017. ©CBS FILMS

ONLY THE BRAVE, L-R: MILES TELLER, TAYLOR KITSCH, 2017. PH: RICHARD FOREMAN/©COLUMBIA PICTURES

ONLY THE BRAVE, L-R: JOSH BROLIN, SCOTT FOXX, RYAN BUSCH, BRANDON BUNCH, ALEX RUSSELL, BEN HARDY, THAD LUCKINBILL, JAKE PICKING, GEOFF STULTZ, TAYLOR KITSCH, MILES TELLER, M. VAN WETTERING, M. MCNULTY, S. QUINN, R. JASON COOK, N. JENKS, K. MILLER, D. KENIN, SCOTT HAZE, JAMES B. DALE, 2017. PH: RICHARD FOREMAN/©COLUMBIA PICTURES

True Detective, Taylor Kitsch, 'Season Credits', Season 2, Ep. #9, ©HBO

True Detective, Taylor Kitsch, 'The Western Book of the Dead', Season 2, Ep. #1, 06/21/2015, ©HBOMR

True Detective, Taylor Kitsch, 'Church in Ruins', Season 2, Ep. #6, 07/26/2015, ©HBOMR

AMERICAN ASSASSIN, FROM LEFT, MICHAEL KEATON, TAYLOR KITSCH, 2017. ©CBS FILMS

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Filmography

Movies

			Credit
54%	91%	21 Bridges	Ray (Character)	$28.5M	2019
87%	91%	Only the Brave	Christopher MacKenzie (Character)	$18.1M	2017
35%	61%	American Assassin	Ghost (Character)	$36.2M	2017
33%	31%	Bling	Sam (Voice)	-	2016
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Gridiron Heroes	Narrator	$23.5K	2015
94%	88%	The Normal Heart	Bruce Niles (Character)	-	2014
61%	66%	The Grand Seduction	Dr. Lewis (Character)	$3.4M	2013
75%	87%	Lone Survivor	Mike Murphy (Character)	$125.1M	2013
50%	54%	Savages	Chon (Character)	$47.3M	2012
34%	54%	Battleship	Lt. Alex Hopper (Character)	$65.2M	2012
52%	60%	John Carter	John Carter (Character)	$73.1M	2012
49%	60%	The Bang Bang Club	Kevin Carter (Character)	-	2010
38%	58%	X-Men Origins: Wolverine	Remy LeBeau/Gambit (Character)	$179.9M	2009
4%	62%	The Covenant	Pogue Parry (Character)	$23.3M	2006
28%	69%	John Tucker Must Die	Justin (Character)	$41.0M	2006

TV

			Credit
29%	89%	Waco: The Aftermath	Executive Producer	2023-2024
50%	60%	Painkiller	Glen Kryger (Character)	2023
40%	94%	The Terminal List	Ben Edwards (Character)	2022
No Score Yet	19%	The Late Late Show With James Corden	Guest	2018 2022
No Score Yet	78%	Shadowplay	Max Mclaughlin (Character)	2020
No Score Yet	36%	Jimmy Kimmel Live!	Guest	2011 2019
70%	76%	Waco	David Koresh (Character)	2018
No Score Yet	61%	Late Night With Seth Meyers	Guest	2018
No Score Yet	44%	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	Guest	2014-2015 2018
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Ellen DeGeneres Show	Guest	2012 2014 2017
79%	58%	True Detective	Paul Woodrugh (Character)	2015
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Talk	Guest	2014
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Late Night With Jimmy Fallon	Guest	2012
97%	93%	Friday Night Lights	Tim Riggins (Character), Unknown (Guest Star)	2006-2011