Ellar Coltrane

Ellar Coltrane Kinney Salmon (born August 27, 1994) is an American actor best known for their role as Mason Evans Jr. in Richard Linklater's film Boyhood. Coltrane was born in Austin, Texas, to Genevieve (née Kinney), an equine-assisted therapist for autistic people, and Bruce Salmon, a musician. In 2001, at the age of six, Coltrane was cast by filmmaker Richard Linklater to play the title character in Boyhood, a film that depicted a boy's coming of age over a span of 12 years. The film was shot intermittently between May 2002 and August 2013, with a total of 45 days of filming. For their performance in Boyhood, Coltrane won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer.