Ellar Coltrane

Personal context

Summary

Ellar Coltrane is an actor best known for playing Mason as he grows up in Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, filmed over twelve years. His other screen roles include Barry, The Circle, and The Good Lord Bird, in work spanning coming-of-age stories, drama, and independent films. Coltrane has said that defined gender roles are “bullshit” and described the gender binary as a role he felt he had to play; he once expressed a preference for they/them pronouns. No public statements on DEI, political campaigning, or broader activism are on record.