Liam Aiken

Liam Aiken
Aiken at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	Liam Pádraic Aiken (1990-01-07) January 7, 1990 New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1997–present

Liam Pádraic Aiken (born January 7, 1990) is an American actor who has starred in a number of films, such as Stepmom and Good Boy!. He starred as Klaus Baudelaire in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, based on the series of books. His newest movie is called "How to Be A Man".

Early life

Liam Aiken was born in New York City, the only child of Bill Aiken, an MTV producer, and an Irish-born mother, Moya Aiken.^[1] His father died of cancer in October 1992 at age 34, when Liam was 2 1/2 years old. Shortly after the death of his father, Liam was urged by his mother to start acting so he could fund his college education.^{[citation needed]} He attended Dwight Englewood School and graduating 2008. He then went on to major in film at NYU. He made his professional acting debut in a Ford Motor Company Windstar commercial. Aiken made his stage debut in the Broadway play A Doll's House at the age of seven and his film debut playing Parker Posey's son in Henry Fool in the same year.

Career

Aiken's first major film role was playing Susan Sarandon's character's young son in Stepmom in 1998, which also starred Julia Roberts and Jena Malone. He appeared as Tom Hanks' younger son in the 2002 film Road to Perdition. He starred in the 2003 family film Good Boy! about dogs from space, playing the lead Owen Baker. He turned down the role of Cole Sear in The Sixth Sense (1999) because his mother felt he was too young for the death-fixated role;^{[citation needed]} the role went instead to Haley Joel Osment. Aiken was also considered for the role of Harry Potter as he had previously worked with director Chris Columbus on Stepmom.^[2] However, as he is not British,^[3] Daniel Radcliffe took the part. In 2004 Aiken went on to play the intelligent 12-year-old orphan Klaus Baudelaire in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. In March 2009, Aiken was cast as Johnnie Pappas in Michael Winterbottom's remake of The Killer Inside Me, starring Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson.

In September 2011 he starred in the American TV show A Gifted Man on CBS.

In 2012, he read the audiobook version of Who Could That Be At This Hour?, the first installment of All the Wrong Questions, a prequel series to A Series of Unfortunate Events. In 2013, he again read the second audiobook installment of "all the wrong questions".

In the fall of 2008, Aiken entered New York University as an undergraduate, studying film and television.^[4]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Awards and nominations

References

External links

• Liam Aiken at the Internet Movie Database
• Liam Aiken at AllRovi