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Liam Pádraic Aiken (born January 7, 1990)[1] is an American actor. He has starred in films such as Stepmom (1998), Road to Perdition (2002), and Good Boy! (2003), and played Klaus Baudelaire in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004), based on the series of books. He also starred in the films Nor'easter (2012), Ned Rifle (2014), The Bloodhound (2020), and Bashira (2021).

Liam Aiken
Aiken at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	Liam Pádraic Aiken (1990-01-07) January 7, 1990 (age 32) New York City, U.S.
Education	Dwight-Englewood School
Alma mater	New York University
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1997–present

Personal life

Aiken was born in New York City, the only child of Moya Aiken, an Irish-born artist;[2] and Bill Aiken, an MTV producer, who is of Scots-Irish descent.[3] Bill died of esophageal cancer in September 1992, at age 34, when Liam was two years old.[2] Aiken grew up in New Jersey and attended Dwight-Englewood School, graduating in 2008. He then went on to major in film at New York University.[4] As of 2017^[update], Aiken resides in Los Angeles.[2]

Career

Aiken made his professional acting debut in a Ford Motor Company commercial by Ford Aerostar.[3] He made his stage debut in the Broadway play A Doll's House at the age of seven,[5] and his film debut in Henry Fool (1997). His first major film role came when he starred in Stepmom (1998). He appeared in Road to Perdition (2002) and the family film Good Boy! (2003). He was considered to play Cole Sear in The Sixth Sense (1999), but the role went to Haley Joel Osment.[3] He was also considered for the role of Harry Potter in the series of the same name due to his Irish heritage and Scottish ancestry as well as his previous work with director Chris Columbus on Stepmom[6] but due to J.K. Rowling imposition of the "strictly British and Irish actors policy" which meant that only natural-born British and Irish citizens, regardless of place of birth, can take part in the series, Daniel Radcliffe won the role.[7]

Aiken went on to play intelligent 12-year-old orphan Klaus Baudelaire in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004). He also appeared in The Killer Inside Me (2010).[8] In September 2011, he appeared in the CBS series A Gifted Man.[9] From 2012 to 2015, he narrated the audiobook versions of All the Wrong Questions, a prequel series to A Series of Unfortunate Events.[10]

In 2012, he portrayed a boy who returns home after being missing for years in Nor'easter, directed by Andrew Brotzman.[11] In 2014, he played the title role in Ned Rifle, the third film in a trilogy that began with Henry Fool and continued with Fay Grim (2006).[12] In 2020, he co-starred The Bloodhound, a mystery film inspired by the Edgar Allan Poe short story "The Fall of the House of Usher."[13]

In 2021, he portrayed an electronic musician who suffering a series of nightmares with bizarre and mysterious appearances in Bashira, directed by Nickson Fong.[14] Also in 2021, Aiken will play J.R. in Montauk, by Sean Nalaboff.[15]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Henry Fool	Ned	[16]
1998	Montana	Kid
	The Object of My Affection	Nathan
	Stepmom	Ben Harrison	[16]
2000	I Dreamed of Africa	Emanuele Gallmann (age 7)	[16]
2001	Sweet November	Abner	[16]
	The Rising Place	Emmett Wilder
2002	Road to Perdition	Peter Sullivan	[16]
2003	Good Boy!	Owen Baker	[16]
2004	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	Klaus Baudelaire	[16]
2006	Fay Grim	Ned Grim	[16]
2010	The Killer Inside Me	Johnnie Pappas	[16]
2012	Electrick Children	Mr. Will	[16]
	Girls Against Boys	Tyler	[16]
	Nor'easter	Boy/Josh Green	[16][17]
2013	Munchausen	Son	Short film
	How to Be a Man	Bryan
2014	Ned Rifle	Ned	[16]
2015	The Frontier	Eddie	[16]
	Weepah Way for Now	Reed
	Let Me Down Easy	Hezekiah	Short film
2016	Like Lambs	Charlie Masters	[18]
2017	The Emoji Movie	Ronnie Ram Tech	Voice[16]
2017	The Honor Farm	Sinclair	[16]
2020	The Bloodhound	Francis	[16][19]
2021	Bashira	Andy	[20]
2022	A Soldiers Heart		Short film[21]
TBA	Montauk	J.R.	previously called Kingfish[22] it was slated to be released in 2021, but it hasn't been released[15]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998, 2007	Law & Order	Jack Ericson/Tory Quinlann	2 episodes[16]
2002, 2009	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Robbie Bishop/Jason	2 episodes[16]
2011	A Gifted Man	Milo	2 episodes[16]
2013	Mad Men	Rolo	Episode: "The Quality of Mercy"[16]
2018	I'm Dying Up Here	Howard	Episode: "Plus One"

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	A Doll's House	Bobby Helmer	Belasco Theatre[5]

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	Klaus Baudelaire	Voice

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Result	Work	Notes
1999	Young Artist Award	Best Performance in a Feature Film - Young Actor Age Ten or Younger	Won	Stepmom	[23]
2003	Young Artist Award	Best Performance in a Feature Film - Supporting Young Actor	Nominated	Road to Perdition	[24]
2004	Young Artist Award	Best Performance in a Feature Film - Leading Young Actor	Nominated	Good Boy!	[25]
2005	Young Artist Award	Best Performance in a Feature Film - Leading Young Actor	Nominated	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	[26]
	Critics Choice Award	Best Young Actor	Nominated		[27]

References

External links

• Liam Aiken on Instagram
• Liam Aiken at IMDb
• Liam Aiken at AllMovie

На других языках

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[es] Liam Aiken

Liam Pádraic Aiken (Nueva York, 7 de enero de 1990) es un actor estadounidense. Conocido por interpretar a Klaus Baudelaire en Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events.

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[ru] Эйкен, Лиам

Лиам Падрик Эйкен (англ. Liam Padraic Aiken; род. 7 января 1990, Нью-Йорк, США) — американский актёр кино и телевидения. Более известен по ролям Бена Харрисона в фильме «Мачеха» и Клауса Бодлера в фильме «Лемони Сникет: 33 несчастья».

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