Cast & creator
Ellar Coltrane
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Daily Show, The Good Lord Bird
Ellar Coltrane (born August 27, 1994) is an American actor. They are best known for their role as Mason Evans Jr. in Richard Linklater's film Boyhood, for which they won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer, as well as their roles in Lone Star State of Mind (2002), Fast Food Nation (2006) and Barry (2016).
Also known as: Ellar Coltrane Kinney Salmon, Ellar Salmon
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1996–2026 · acting roles
5.6
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (27)
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014
The Daily Show
Self
1996
The Good Lord Bird
Salmon Brown
2020
The Circle
Mercer Regalado
2017
Boyhood
Mason
2014
The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot
The Clerk
2019
Fast Food Nation
Jay Anderson
2006
Blood Money
Victor
2017
Lone Star State of Mind
Young Earl
2002
Barry
Will
2016
Shoplifters of the World
Ryan
2021
Hallettsville
Young Tyler
2009
The Last Movie Star
Shane McAvoy
2018
Art-House America: Austin Film Society
Self
2023
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
Self
2016
Summer Night
Jameson
2019Faith & Bullets
Thomas Chaney Jr.
2005
El Fantasma
Lee Harvey Oswald
2021
With Pleasure
The Bar Fly
2021
The Weird Kidz
Wyatt (Voice)
2026
The Get Together
Face Tattoo
2020
The End of Decay
Ben
2017
Twelve Years
Self
2015
Bodies of Water
Marsh
2018Bodies of Water
Associate Producer
2018
Drowned
Boy
2017
By the River
Himself
2016