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| 3 | Kodi Smit-[=McPhee=] (born June 13, 1996 in Adelaide) is an UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}n actor. |
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| 5 | He is best known for playing Alexander in ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' and Nightcrawler in the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''. He first gained recognition as an actor when he was a child in ''Film/TheRoad'' and ''Film/LetMeIn''. He also voiced the titular character of ''WesternAnimation/ParaNorman''; he's done some other voice acting since. In 2021, he co-starred in the buzzy western ''Film/ThePowerOfTheDog''. |
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| 7 | Smit-[=McPhee=] has ankylosing spondylitis, a form of arthritis, and has spoken about how this diagnosis and its treatment has affected the way he plays his characters. |
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| 9 | !!Filmography: |
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| 11 | * ''Series/MonarchCove'' (2006): Young Jake |
| 12 | * ''Film/RomulusMyFather'' (2007): Raimond |
| 13 | * ''Film/TheRoad'' (2009): Boy |
| 14 | * ''Film/LetMeIn'' (2010): Owen |
| 15 | * ''Film/MatchingJack'' (2010): Finn |
| 16 | * ''WesternAnimation/PoppyCat'' (2011-2016): Ravi (voice role) |
| 17 | * ''Film/DeadEurope'' (2012): Josef |
| 18 | * ''WesternAnimation/ParaNorman'' (2012): Norman Babcock (voice role) |
| 19 | * ''Film/ABirdersGuideToEverything'' (2013): David Portnoy |
| 20 | * ''Film/TheCongress'' (2013): Aaron Wright |
| 21 | * ''Film/RomeoAndJuliet2013'' (2013): Benvolio |
| 22 | * ''Film/AllTheWilderness'' (2014): James Charm |
| 23 | * ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' (2014): Alexander |
| 24 | * ''WesternAnimation/MayaTheBee'' (2014): Willy (voice role) |
| 25 | * ''Film/SlowWest'' (2015): Jay Cavendish |
| 26 | * ''Series/Gallipoli2015'': Thomas "Tolly" Johnson |
| 27 | * ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'': Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler |
| 28 | ** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' (2016) |
| 29 | ** ''Film/Deadpool2'' (2018) (cameo) |
| 30 | ** ''Film/DarkPhoenix'' (2019) |
| 31 | * ''Film/Alpha2018'' (2018): Keda |
| 32 | * ''Film/DolemiteIsMyName'' (2019): Nicholas Josef von Sternberg |
| 33 | * ''[[Film/TwoThousandSixtySeven 2067]]'' (2019): Ethan Whyte |
| 34 | * ''Film/ThePowerOfTheDog'' (2021): Peter Gordon |
| 35 | * ''Film/{{Elvis|2022}}'' (2022): Jimmie Rodgers Snow |
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| 37 | !!Troped related to him and his work: |
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| 39 | * AcclaimedFlop: Has a rather unfortunate habit of appearing in these, [[Film/TheRoad many]] [[Film/LetMeIn of]] [[WesternAnimation/ParaNorman his]] [[Film/Alpha2018 films]] have received critical acclaim yet meet middling or even under performance at the box office. |
| 40 | %%* ButtMonkey: His characters tend to suffer a lot. |
| 41 | * FakeAmerican: Most of the characters he's played are American; however, Smit-[=McPhee=] himself is Australian. |
| 42 | * {{Typecast}}: As a child he tended to play quiet waifish boys who suffer a lot. He mentioned in an interview that he is usually sought out by studios who wanted a child who can play the "deep, sad stuff." |
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