Taran Killam
| Taran Killam | |
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Killam in a panel discussion at
the 2013 New York Comic Con |
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| Birth name | Taran Hourie Killam |
| Born |
April 1, 1982 Culver City, California, United States |
| Medium | Film, television, stage |
| Nationality | American |
| Genres | Improvisational comedy, sketch comedy, satire |
| Subject(s) | American culture, current events, pop culture, mass media |
| Spouse | Cobie Smulders (m. 2012) |
| Children | 2 |
| Notable works and roles |
Saturday Night Live Wild 'N Out The Amanda Show Hamilton |
Taran Hourie Killam (born April 1, 1982) is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He is best known for his television work on shows such as The Amanda Show, Wild 'n Out, Mad TV, and Saturday Night Live.
Killam is currently performing the role of King George III in the Broadway production of Hamilton at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.
Killam was born on April 1, 1982 in Culver City, California, and grew up in Big Bear Lake, California. He graduated from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. His great-uncle was actor Robert Stack. Killam attended the University of California, Los Angeles for one year in 2000.
In 1994, Killam made his first film appearance as an adolescent in Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult. Killam was featured on Nickelodeon's The Amanda Show, a sketch-comedy vehicle for Amanda Bynes, on which he played Spaulding, a boy who had a huge crush on Moody, in the soap opera parody "Moody's Point".
Killam joined the cast of MADtv as a featured player during its seventh season from 2001 to 2002. Of the 25 episodes that aired during MADtv's seventh season, Killam appeared fully in 13 episodes. Joining the MADtv cast at age 19, Killam was the youngest cast member hired on the show and the only cast member on MADtv to get his start on children's shows (similar to Kenan Thompson on Saturday Night Live). He was a regular cast member on the third and fourth seasons of Nick Cannon's Wild 'N Out. In 2005, Killam co-starred in the television pilot Nobody's Watching, which never aired on network TV. The pilot gained popularity after it was leaked online and webisodes were produced from 2006 to 2007.
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