Kett Turton

Birkett Turton
Birkett Turton
Born	Birkett Kealy Turton; April 4, 1982 (age 42); Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1997–present

Birkett Kealy "Kett" Turton (born April 4, 1982)^[1]^[2] is an American-born Canadian film and television actor who had a starring role in the television series Dead Last (2001).^[3]^[4] Turton was also featured in the television series Millennium (1997), Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show (2001), Smallville (2002), Dark Angel (2002), The Dead Zone (2002), Dead Like Me (2003), 24 (2003), Supernatural (2005), Fringe (2012), Gotham (2014), The Flash (2015), Blue Bloods (2015), Deadbeat (2015), Jessica Jones (2015), iZombie (2017), The Magicians (2018), and Riverdale (2020).

Biography

Turton was born in Portland, Oregon, United States, and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He started acting in local theater performances when he was 4 years old. At the age of 15, he played the role of Darrin in the Canadian movie Rollercoaster, for which he was nominated for Canada's prestigious Leo Award.^[5]

Since then, Turton has had various roles in both television and film. Most notable are his major roles in television series Dead Last, television mini-series Kingdom Hospital and film Gypsy 83. In Gypsy 83 he played the role of Clive, a gay, goth teen coming of age, alongside Sara Rue. This role earned him the Best Actor Award at Outfest, an LGBT film festival. From 2006–2009 he completed a BA in Acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).

Filmography

Film roles
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Rollercoaster	Darrin
1999	H-E Double Hockey Sticks	Skid
2000	Ricky 6	Greg
2001	Gypsy 83	Clive Webb
2002	The Water Game	Gavin
2003	Heart of America	Daniel Lyne
	Coming Down the Mountain	Joe	Short film
	Falling Angels	Tom
2004	Saved!	Mitch
	Walking Tall	Kenner
	My Old Man	Young Hank	Short film
	Show Me	Jackson
	Blade: Trinity	Dingo
2005	A Simple Curve	Buck
2006	Firewall	Vel
2012	Wrath of the Titans	Elite Guard No. 2
2015	Eadweard	Rondinella
2016	Curmudgeons	Brant	Short film
	Wiener-Dog	Film Director
	Our Time	Gabe
2017	Cut Shoot Kill	Jason
2018	O.I.	Chris	Short film
	20 Minutes to Life	Officer Annesley	Short film
	Corporate Monster	Robert Turner

Television films
Year	Title	Role
1998	Beauty	Sean
1999	Our Guys: Outrage at Glen Ridge	John
2000	Secret Cutting	Craig Crosetto
2000	Deadlocked	Ellis Moseley
2005	Ladies Night	Zack Pavalek

Television series
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Millennium	Ghost Storyteller	Episode: "The Curse of Frank Black"
1998	Dead Man's Gun	'Little Boy' Dawkins	Episode: "The Photographer"
	The X Files	Brit (uncredited)^{[citation needed]}	Episode: "The Pine Bluff Variant"
	Da Vinci's Inquest	Nate Gillis	Episode: "Gabriel"
1999	The Net	Kiss Shirt	Episode: "Chem Lab"
1999	First Wave	Normal, Illinois	Episode: "Robbie Harlock"
2000	Cold Squad	Young Daniel	Episode: "Life After Death"
	So Weird	Pete	Episode: "Vampire"
	Higher Ground	David Ruxton	3 episodes
2001	Dead Last	Vaughn Parrish	series regular
	Mentors	Reggie	Episode: "Nothing to Fear"
	SK8	Kevin	Episode: "All Skate"
	Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show	Manny	Episode: "Honey, I'm Going to Teach You a Lesson"
	Strange Frequency	Toby	Episode: "More Than a Feeling"
2002	Smallville	Jeff Palmer	Episode: "Shimmer"
	Dark Angel	Jonathan	Episode: "Love in Vein"
	The Dead Zone	Goth Guy	Episode: "Unreasonable Doubt"
2003	Dead Like Me	Rich Guggenheim	Episode: "Sunday Mornings"
2003	24	Tim	2 episodes
2004	Kingdom Hospital	Paul Morlock / Antubis	Episode: "Series"
2005	Godiva's	Eddie	Episode: "Fast and Loose"
2005-2017	Supernatural	Max Jaffe / Alton Morehead	Episodes: "Phantom Traveler" and "The Raid"
2012	Fringe	Briggs	Episode: "The Human Kind"
2014	Gotham	Benny	Episode: "Viper"
2015	The Flash	Eddie Slick / Sand Demon	Episode: "Flash of Two Worlds"
	Blue Bloods	Lukas Gorski	Episode: "Payback"
	Deadbeat	Dark Suit #2	Episode: "Good Will Haunting"
	Jessica Jones	Holden	Episode: "AKA It's Called Whiskey"
2016	Motive	Dr. Henry Price	Episode: "The Scorpion and the Frog"
2017-2019	iZombie	Vampire Steve	9 Episodes
2018	The Magicians	Vince	Episode: "Poached Eggs"
2018	You Me Her	Tucker	Episode: "Tourist Lesbians and Millennial Twats"
2020 - 2021	Riverdale	David	3 Episodes

Video games

Spider-Man (2000) – Bank Thug Pilot (voice, in cut scene, uncredited)^{[citation needed]}

Theatre

2009 – Molière, or The League of Hypocrites (Finborough Theatre)

Awards

Nominated for Canadian Leo - Best Actor (Rollercoaster)
Won Copper Wing Award (at the Phoenix Film Festival) - Best Ensemble (Rollercoaster)
Won Grand Jury Award (at OUTfest) - Best Actor Award (Gypsy 83)

References

^ "Kett Turton". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on August 13, 2020. Retrieved November 14, 2019.
^ "Kett Turton". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved November 14, 2019.
^ Barchas, Elizabeth (2001) "TALES FROM THE FLIP SIDE", Boston Globe, August 12, 2001, p. 4
^ Rosenberg, Howard (2001) "WB Summer Offering Ends Up a 'Dead' Bore", Los Angeles Times, August 14, 2001, p. F6
^ "Kett Turton". NorthernStars.ca.