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Aden Young (born 30 November 1971[1][2]) is a Canadian-Australian actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Daniel Holden in the SundanceTV drama Rectify, for which he was twice nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series. He has appeared in American, Canadian and Australian productions.

Aden Young
Young at the 2012 AACTA Awards
Born	(1971-11-30) 30 November 1971 (age 50) Toronto, Ontario, Canada[1][2]
Occupation	Actor, writer, director, editor
Years active	1991–present
Spouse(s)	Loene Carmen (m. 2014)
Children	2

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',[3][4] 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.[5]

Career

As an actor

Young was cast in his first role, as a young Frenchman in Bruce Beresford's acclaimed religious epic Black Robe (1991)[6] on his 18th birthday.[7] 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.[8][9]

He took the lead role in groundbreaking Australian arthouse noir film Broken Highway (1993), directed by pioneering female filmmaker Laurie McInnes, which screened in competition in Cannes[10] but received polarizing reviews.[11]

Paul Cox's Exile was filmed soon after, described in Variety as "an ambitious, sometimes hallucinatory drama that tackles themes difficult to bring off successfully in the cinema". The two clashed dramatically during filming, but formed a lifelong friendship that led to Young becoming part of Cox's film family (Chris Haywood explains "Working with Cox is not dissimilar to being one of the Musketeers or part of a pirate crew") editing, appearing and helping out on many Cox productions.[12] Exile screened in competition at Berlin Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival and Warsaw Film Festival[13] but did not receive a theatrical release.

Young was nominated for an Australian Film Institute Best Actor award and won a Film Critics Circle of Australia Best Actor award for his role as the "ratty-looking loser"[14] Psycho Joe opposite Ben Mendelsohn in Metal Skin (1994), Geoffrey Wright's examination of suburban hopelessness and revhead subculture, which screened internationally in competition at Venice Film Festival and Stockholm Film Festival amongst others. One reviewer wrote that "Young's depiction of this unsettling metamorphosis is central to the film's success."[15] Geoffrey Wright stated "There could be no dispute that he is one of the best actors in the country."[16]

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.[17]

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.[18] The production also had a 2006 season at Brooklyn Academy of Music and spawned documentary In the Company of Actors.[19][20]

Compelling film cameos followed, in WW1 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.[21][22]

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.[23] Beresford stated that Young's "a very cooperative and thoughtful actor."[24]

Young mimed the hit song "Even Though I'm A Woman",[25] 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.[26]

In June 2012, Young was announced as the lead character Daniel Holden in the SundanceTV Southern Gothic series Rectify, which follows Holden's journey when he is released back to his family in a small Southern town after 19 years on Death Row for the murder of his girlfriend, following new evidence.[27] His critically acclaimed performance was hailed as "a haunted wonder"[28] with Variety proclaiming "Aden Young's portrait of Daniel is one of the greatest performances to ever grace any screen, without question. It's a travesty he hasn't been nominated for every single acting award in the TV world. The entertainment industry should make up new awards just to give to him."[29] Rectify was announced as a Peabody Award winner in April 2015[30] and Young has received two Critics Choice Best Actor nominations for Seasons 2 and 3.[28][31][32] Rectify was in the 2018 Guinness Book of Records as "Highest Rated TV Series" for its Metacritic rating of 99.

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.[33]

In 2017 Young took the lead in Damnation[34] before departing over creative differences.

He will play villain Cyrus Mendenhall in Canadian indie drama Angelique's Isle set for release in 2018[35]^{[needs update]} and stars in upcoming romantic comedy Elsewhere.[36]^{[needs update]}

As a director

Young directed the acclaimed short film The Rose of Ba Ziz (2007),[37] adapted from a children's book written by his father; the film was made over five days on a shoestring budget of $700[38] and featured Hugo Weaving, Roy Billing, Odessa Young and an appearance by his significant other, Australian singer Loene Carmen, who also co-composed the film's score with Jed Kurzel.[39][40] Additionally, Young directed the AFI award-winning 25-minute film The Order (1999).[41][42]

Young edited Paul Cox documentaries Kalaupapa Heaven[43] Tajiri and feature film Salvation.[44][45] He also directed Carmen's music videos for "Everyone You Ever Knew (Is Coming Back To Haunt You" (2015)[46] and "Nashville High" (2007) as well as editing her music video "Mimic the Rain" (2009).[47]

Personal life

Young has two sons, Dutch (born 2007) and Chester (born 2011), with his longtime partner, Australian singer-songwriter-musician-actress Loene Carmen. They married in Zebulon, Georgia while filming season 2 of Rectify in 2014.[48]

A portrait of Young by artist James Powditch was a 2008 Archibald Prize finalist. Young also appears in Powditch's 2012 work Berserk Warriors.[49]

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

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 Cast: Series 1 6 episodes
2015	The Principal	Adam Bilic	3 episodes
2017	The Disappearance	Luke Sullivan
2019	Reckoning	Mike Serrato	Netflix mini-series; Main role; (10 episodes)

As director/writer/editor

Year	Title	Credits			Notes
		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

Awards and nominations

• Film Critic's Association of Australia Best Actor Supporting Role Nomination forDon't Tell'[50]
• 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)[51]
• Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series Nomination for Rectify (2015)[52]
• Satellite Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama Nomination for Rectify (2013)[53]
• Australian Film Institute Awards Nomination for Best Actor in a Lead Role for River Street (1996)
• Australian Film Institute Awards Nomination for Best Actor in a Lead Role for Metal Skin (1995)
• Australian Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for Metal Skin (1995)

References

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
• The Rose Of Ba Ziz (2007), 8 mins, dir Aden Young
• The Order, 25mins, dir Aden Young

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Аден Янг (англ. Aden Young; род. 30 ноября 1971[2][3], Торонто, Онтарио, Канада) — австралийский и канадский актёр. Наиболее известен по роли Дэниела Холдена в сериале «Ошибки прошлого».

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