Kodi Smit-McPhee (born June 13, 1996 in Adelaide) is an Australian actor.
He is best known for playing Alexander in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Nightcrawler in the X-Men Film Series. He first gained recognition as an actor when he was a child in The Road and Let Me In. He also voiced the titular character of ParaNorman; he's done some other voice acting since. In 2021, he co-starred in the buzzy western The Power of the Dog.
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.
Filmography:
- Monarch Cove (2006): Young Jake
- Romulus My Father (2007): Raimond
- The Road (2009): Boy
- Let Me In (2010): Owen
- Matching Jack (2010): Finn
- Poppy Cat (2011-2016): Ravi (voice role)
- Dead Europe (2012): Josef
- ParaNorman (2012): Norman Babcock (voice role)
- A Birder's Guide to Everything (2013): David Portnoy
- The Congress (2013): Aaron Wright
- Romeo & Juliet (2013) (2013): Benvolio
- All The Wilderness (2014): James Charm
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014): Alexander
- Maya the Bee (2014): Willy (voice role)
- Slow West (2015): Jay Cavendish
- Gallipoli (2015): Thomas "Tolly" Johnson
- X-Men Film Series: Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler
- X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
- Deadpool 2 (2018) (cameo)
- Dark Phoenix (2019)
- Alpha (2018) (2018): Keda
- Dolemite Is My Name (2019): Nicholas Josef von Sternberg
- 2067 (2019): Ethan Whyte
- The Power of the Dog (2021): Peter Gordon
- Elvis (2022): Jimmie Rodgers Snow
Troped related to him and his work:
- Acclaimed Flop: Has a rather unfortunate habit of appearing in these, many of his films have received critical acclaim yet meet middling or even under performance at the box office.
- Fake American: Most of the characters he's played are American; however, Smit-McPhee himself is Australian.
- 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."
