| Name |
Kelly AuCoin |
| Height |
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| Naionality |
American |
| Date of Birth |
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| Place of Birth |
Hillsboro, Oregon, U.S. |
| Famous for |
Acting |
Kelly AuCoin is an American actor who has appeared in film, television and theatre. He has appeared in episodes of several American television series, including Gossip Girl and The Good Wife, and has had supporting roles in the films The Kingdom and Julie & Julia. AuCoin was a member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival acting company in the early 1990s. After relocating to New York, AuCoin landed small roles in several soap operas, including Guiding Light and The City. In the early 2000s, he appeared in episodes of The Sopranos and Law & Order. AuCoin has since appeared in other television series, such as Without a Trace, The Good Wife, White Collar, Kings, and most recently, Gossip Girl.
In 2005, he appeared as the young Octavius in a Broadway revival of Julius Caesar, which starred Denzel Washington. AuCoin has appeared in numerous other Off Broadway stage productions, including 2008's The Fifth Column, 2009's Jailbait, directed by Suzanne Agins, and 2010's Happy Now?. He recently starred in two La Jolla Playhouse productions; J.T. Rogers' Blood And Gifts, directed by Lucie Tiberghien, and Arthur Kopit and Anton Dudley's world premier A Dram Of Drummhicit, directed by Christopher Ashley. In 2012 he starred in the LAByrinth Theater Company's premier of Radiance, a play by Cusi Cram.
His first major film role came in 2007, where he played State Department official Ellis Leach in The Kingdom. In 2009's Julie & Julia, AuCoin played one of the executives for the Houghton Mifflin publishing company who declined to publish Julia Child's soon-to-be-legendary cookbook. For the 2012 presidential election, NPR's Planet Money team cast AuCoin as their "Fake Presidential Candidate" to give voice to "major economic policies they could all stand behind."
