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Kodi Smit-McPhee

Kodi Smit-McPhee
Kodi Smit-McPhee was born in Australia, the son of Sonja and Andy McPhee, an actor and former professional wrestler. His sister is actress Sianoa Smit-McPhee. He has had many roles in film and television, but is best known for his performance in the 2007 film Romulus, My Father, acting beside Eric Bana. He won the 2007 AFI (Australian Film Institute) Best Young Actor Award for his role in the film. Kodi has also appeared in the Australian telemovie The King and the American television series Monarch Cove and Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King in the episode titled "Umney's Last Case".
Kodi was originally cast in the role of Young Logan in the X-Men film, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, however he was unable to film because of his work with The Road. In The Road, he appeared as the unnamed son of Viggo Mortensen's also unnamed character in the screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name. Kodi's performance in The Road has received mainly positive reviews from the critics. Therefore, he was nominated for Best Young Actor at the 15th annual Critics' Choice Awards.
On 1 October 2009, it was confirmed that Smit-McPhee would play the role of Owen in the film Let Me In, which was directed by Matt Reeves and released in October 2010.[6] In an interview at Comic Con, he said he has seen The Exorcist and it "scared the crap" out of him. He also said that he did not watch Let the Right One In before or during playing the part of Owen in the American remake of the film because he did not want to copy anything. But he did eventually see it and thought it was amazing "that someone could come up with that".
Smit-McPhee's favorite horror films include Friday the 13th, Child's Play, Jeepers Creepers, and The Fourth Kind, even though they all "freaked" him out.



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Kodi Smit-McPhee - news / articles


  • Exclusive: Let Me In webchat with Chloe Moretz and Kodi Smit-McPhee - 13 October 2010
    ery, very excited about this. On Thursday (14th October) we'll be sitting down with the stars of Let Me In, -Chloe Moretz- and -Kodi Smit-McPhee-, for an -exclusive filmed webchat-.- -Straight after the London Film Festival premiere of their new film, Chloe and Kodi wi

Kodi Smit-McPhee - what members say


  • The Road
  • The Road review by acatris from Caerphilly
    Rated - 0.0 stars Highly anticipated but sadly disappointing. 11 January 2010
    ...stioned, but the script muffles it's beauty with trite and forced dialogue. Kodi Smit-McPhee who plays the young boy in this Father-Son story, is burdened with annoying dia...   Read customer review
  • Let Me In
  • Let Me In review by Hutchyboro from Middlesbrough
    Rated - 5.0 stars Just as good as the original. 8 November 2010
    ...t tried to put loads of 'Hollywood' action in. The two 12 year olds in the film Kodi Smit-McPhee and Chloe Moretz steel the show the latter showing how good this girl can act f...   Read customer review

Kodi Smit-McPhee - filmography


  • Paranorman
  • Paranorman (2012)
    Starring: Leslie Mann,  Anna Kendrick,  Christopher Mintz-Plasse
    Director: Chris Butler,  Sam Fell
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In the comedy thriller, a small town comes under siege by zombies. Who can it call? Only misunderstood local boy Norman (voiced by McPhee), who is able to speak with the dead. In addition to the zombies, he'll have to take on ghosts, witches and, worst of all, moronic grown-ups, to save his town ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 86% from 3 members
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  • Let Me In - Blu-ray
  • Let Me In - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Kodi Smit-McPhee,  Chloe Moretz,  Richard Jenkins
    Director: Matt Reeves
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Based on the bestselling novel of the same name and the successful Swedish film, "Let Me In" is a contemporary coming-of-age tale about Oscar, an overlooked and bullied boy, who finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful yet peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 5,737 members
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  • Matching Jack
  • Matching Jack on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Jacinda Barrett,  Richard Roxburgh,  Tom Russell
    Director: Nadia Tass
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    A woman struggles with her son's illness and her husband's infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is turned upside down in a love story that defies explanation and breaks all the rules.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 161 members
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  • Let Me In
  • Let Me In on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Kodi Smit-McPhee,  Chloe Moretz,  Richard Jenkins
    Director: Matt Reeves
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Based on the best-selling novel of the same name and the successful Swedish film, "Let Me In" is a contemporary coming-of-age tale about Owen, an overlooked and bullied boy, who finds love and revenge through Abby, a beautiful yet peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 17,987 members
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  • The Road
  • The Road on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Viggo Mortensen,  Kodi Smit-McPhee,  Charlize Theron
    Director: John Hillcoat
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Post apocalyptic tale based on the bestselling novel by Cormac McCarthy (No Country For Old Men). A father and son travel on foot through a devastated American landscape, battling both starvation and cannibals.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 42,956 members
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  • Romulus, My Father
  • Romulus, My Father on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Eric Bana,  Franka Potente,  Marton Csokas
    Director: Richard Roxburgh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on Raimond Gaita's critically acclaimed memoirs, Romulus, My Father tells the story of Romulus, (Eric Bana), his beautiful wife, Christina (Franka Potente), and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is the tale of a boy trying to balance a universe ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 454 members
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Kodi Smit-McPhee facts

5 most recent films

Paranorman - 4.5 stars
Let Me In - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Matching Jack - 3.5 stars
Let Me In - 3.5 stars
The Road - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Matching Jack - 3.5 stars
Let Me In - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Let Me In - 3.5 stars
The Road - 3.0 stars
The Road - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Paranorman - 4.5 stars
Romulus, My Father - 3.0 stars
The Road - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
The Road - 3.0 stars
Let Me In - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Dylan Minnette - 3 times - show films
Cara Buono - 3 times - show films
Dylan Kenin - 3 times - show films
Elias Koteas - 3 times - show films
Sasha Barrese - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Matt Reeves - 4 times - show films
John Hillcoat - 3 times - show films
Nadia Tass - 2 times - show films
Richard Roxburgh - 2 times - show films
Chris Butler - 1 times - show films

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