Best known for playing the role of Mason Evans Jr. in the critically acclaimed film Boyhood (2014), Ellar Coltrane is an award-winning American actor. For his stellar performance in Boyhood, he won the Critic's Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer. Having started his career at a very young age, Coltrane made his debut on the silver screen with Lone Star State of Mind (2002) where he played the role of Young Earl Crest. He later appeared in films like Fast Food Nation (2006), Barry (2016), and The Last Movie Star (2018), an English drama directed by Adam Rifkin.