Keir Gilchrist Biography
Keir Gilchrist born as Keir David Peters Gilchrist is an English-born Canadian actor best known for his appearance on Showtime’s original series United States of Tara, in the 2010 comedy-drama film, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, in It Follows, and in the Netflix original series Atypical.
Keir Gilchrist Age
Gilchrist was born on 28 September 1992 in Camden Town, London, United Kingdom. He is 26 years old as of 2018
Keir Gilchrist Family
He is the son of Catherine (née Peters) and Ian Gilchrist. His maternal grandfather is Douglas Peters, a Canadian banker, economist, and politician and his uncle is economist David Wilfrid Peters.
Keir Gilchrist Girlfriend
He is in a relationship with his Korean co-star girlfriend Michelle Farrah Huang. They were spotted at the premiere of the famous television series, Room 104. It is rumored that they met each other in the series Atypical in 2017
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Gilchrist found his energy for acting at a youthful age, and his show educator induced him to turn into an expert entertainer. He went to the Annex Children’s Theater. Gilchrist’s first critical TV job was that of Josh McKellar on Fox’s fleeting TV sitcom The Winner, which disclosed in 2007.
From 2009 until its consummation in 2011, Gilchrist co-featured as Marshall Gregson, the child of the lead character depicted by Toni Collette, on the Showtime satire dramatization arrangement United States of Tara.
In 2009, Gilchrist won the lead job of Craig Gilner in the film It’s Kind of a Funny Story, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2010. In 2014, Gilchrist co-featured with Maika Monroe and Jake Weary in the film It Follows. In 2015, he assumed the lead job of Daniel Austin in the film Dark Summer, featured as John Lovett in The Stanford Prison Experiment and William in Len and Company, and depicted the beau of Taissa Farmiga’s character in the Cannes Film Festival-winning short show film Share. In 2016, he and James Caan co-featured in the film The Good Neighbor. In 2017, he featured in the movie Heartthrob, coordinated by Chris Siverston. In August 2017, he started featuring as Sam Gardner, a high schooler with chemical imbalance, in the Netflix dramedy Atypical.
Keir Gilchrist Height, Weight and Body
Height: 5 ft 7 in or 170 cm
Weight: 65 kg or 143.5 lbs
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Eye Color: Dark Brown
Keir Gilchrist It Follows
Gilchrist was cast as Paul Bolduan, Kelly’ friends who teach Jay to shoot a revolver, convinces her to have sex with him and she finaly accepts in the 2014 American supernatural psychological horror film It Follows
Keir Gilchrist Atypical
Gilchrist was cast as Sam Gardner, an 18-year-old boy on the autism spectrum who is obsessed with Antarctica in the a coming-of-age television series Atypical
Keir Gilchrist Net Worth
He has made a good fortune through acting. He has an estimated net worth of around $400 thousand.
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‘Atypical’ Star Keir Gilchrist on How He Prepared to Play an Autistic Teenager
How did you prepare to play Sam?
My rep set me up with Robia [Rashid], the creator of the show, so I got to sit down with her for a couple of hours. It was a very long audition process, and we talked a lot about the various ways in which I could play Sam. The most helpful piece of research was the book “The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome and One Man’s Quest to Be a Better Husband.” The book ended up being a really big contributing factor in creating Sam’s character.
In Season 2, Sam’s relationship with his sister Casey [Brigette Lundy-Paine] evolves. How did you both navigate that change?
I have to give credit to Robia. She had written such a thorough script, and Sam’s relationship with Cas
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ey really jumped off the page. It still does. She brings to that character such a sibling vibe, and we have very natural chemistry.
Sam gets overwhelmed by certain stimuli — people talking, loud music.
With Sam, his senses spiral all over the place, so we try to incorporate visually what is going on in his brain. We’ll show slow-motion close-ups of people’s mouths moving, fluorescent lights flickering, which is the way people on the [autism] spectrum often describe what’s happening when things become too much. In those kinds of scenes, I try to put myself in positions to which anyone can relate — getting bullied at school or getting overwhelmed with a partner. But with Sam, he becomes a little more frightened.
What are some of the changes for Sam in Season 2?
In Season 1, Sam is struggling to find love and acceptance, and at the end of that season, he accomplishes that. Season 2 is more about Sam’s independence. He’s at the end of high school, and now he’s got to decide whether he’s going to go away to college and, if so, where. He’s got to decide whether he’s going to live at home or go away. He takes all the skills from the first season and is trying to forge a path. You can expect lots of misadventures. He’s on a mission to figure out what he’s going to do with his life.
Source: variety.com