Kodi Smit-McPhee: 5 Things To Know About The 25-Year-Old First-Time Oscar Nominee
09.02.2022 - 04:35
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Kodi Smit-McPhee, who plays Peter, the gawky, effeminate son of Kirsten Dunst‘s Rose Gordon in Jane Campion‘s The Power of the Dog is up for the Best Supporting Actor prize a this year’s Academy Awards. Although Kodi has appeared in several films before his Oscar-nominated turn, fans may not know too much about the actor and how he got to where he is.
Below we break down five things to know about the 25-year-old who’s been in the entertainment industry most of his life.
He hails from Australia Kodi Smit-McPhee was born June 13, 1996 in Adelaide, South Australia. He is the son of Andy McPhee, an actor and former professional wrestler, and Sonja Smit. His older sister, Sianoa Smit-McPhee, is also an actress and singer.
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“My dad has always been my coach and my mentor,” Kodi told The Guardian in a 2021 interview around the release of The Power of the Dog. “We are so close. But he’s 6ft 6in, he’s got a goatee, he has ridden with outlaw motorcycle clubs most of his life. As I started to approach adolescence, I wondered when I was going to bloom into this masculine thing. Do I have to go to the gym? Do I have to speak a different way? One day there was a bit of a breakthrough and I realized I don’t have to be any of that. I’m an ectomorph. I’m interested in philosophy. I’m an artist, and that’s beautiful.”
His career began to take off in 2007 Kodi’s first feature film was the 2007 Australian drama Romulus, My Father, for which he received the AFI Best Young Actor award. That win gained him recognition, as he went on to star in 2010’s vampire thriller Let Me In and subsequently veered into action films like Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Dark Phoenix, and X-Men: Apocalypse.
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