Liam Aiken

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Personal life

Aiken is the only child of Moya Aiken, an Irish-born artist;[2] and Bill Aiken, an American, MTV producer,[3] who was of Scots-Irish descent.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Bill died of esophageal cancer in September 1992, at age 34, when Liam was two years old.[2] Aiken grew up in New Jersey and attended Dwight-Englewood School, graduating in 2008. He then went on to major in film at New York University.[4] As of 2017Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., Aiken resides in Los Angeles.[2]

Career

Aiken appeared in a segment on Night After Night with Allan Havey when he was an infant.[5] He would make his professional acting debut in a Ford Motor Company commercial by Ford Aerostar.[3] He made his stage debut in the Broadway play A Doll's House at the age of seven,[6] and his film debut in Henry Fool (1997). His first major film role came when he starred in Stepmom (1998). He appeared in Road to Perdition (2002) and the family film Good Boy! (2003). He was considered to play Cole Sear in The Sixth Sense (1999), but the role went to Haley Joel Osment.[3] The following year, he was also considered for the role of Harry Potter due to his Irish heritage and Scottish ancestry, as well as his previous work with director Chris Columbus on Stepmom,[7] but Daniel Radcliffe ultimately won the role, due to J. K. Rowling's insistence that the part should go to a British actor.[8]

Aiken went on to play intelligent 12-year-old orphan Klaus Baudelaire in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004). He also appeared in The Killer Inside Me (2010).[9] In September 2011, he appeared in the CBS series A Gifted Man.[10] From 2012 to 2015, he narrated the audiobook versions of All the Wrong Questions, a prequel series to A Series of Unfortunate Events.[11]

In 2012, he portrayed a boy who returns home after being missing for years in Nor'easter, directed by Andrew Brotzman.[12] In 2014, he played the title role in Ned Rifle, the third film in a trilogy that began with Henry Fool and continued with Fay Grim (2006).[13] In 2020, he co-starred The Bloodhound, a mystery film inspired by the Edgar Allan Poe short story "The Fall of the House of Usher."[14]

In 2021, he portrayed an electronic musician who suffering a series of nightmares with bizarre and mysterious appearances in Bashira, directed by Nickson Fong.[15] He also played J.R. in Montauk, directed by Sean Nalaboff.[16]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1997 Henry Fool Ned [17]
1998 Montana Kid
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Stepmom Ben Harrison [17]
2000 I Dreamed of Africa Emanuele Gallmann (age 7) [17]
2001 Sweet November Abner [17]
The Rising Place Emmett Wilder
2002 Road to Perdition Peter Sullivan [17]
2003 Good Boy! Owen Baker [17]
2004 Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events Klaus Baudelaire [17]
2006 Fay Grim Ned Grim [17]
2010 Script error: No such module "Sort". Johnnie Pappas [17]
2012 Electrick Children Mr. Will [17]
Girls Against Boys Tyler [17]
Nor'easter Boy/Josh Green [18]
2013 Munchausen Son Short film
How to Be a Man Bryan
2014 Ned Rifle Ned [17]
2015 The Frontier Eddie [17]
Weepah Way for Now Reed
Let Me Down Easy Hezekiah Short film
2016 Like Lambs Charlie Masters [19]
2017 The Emoji Movie Ronnie Ram Tech Voice[17]
The Honor Farm Sinclair [17]
2020 The Bloodhound Francis [20]
2021 Bashira Andy [21]
2022 A Soldiers Heart Short film[22]
2025 Montauk J.R. previously called Kingfish;[23]
2025 V13 Hugo [24]

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1990 Night After Night with Allan Havey Himself
1998, 2007, 2024 Law & Order Jack Ericson/Tory Quinlann/Thomas Norton 3 episodes[17]
2002, 2009 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Robbie Bishop/Jason 2 episodes[17]
2011 Script error: No such module "Sort". Milo
2013 Mad Men Rolo Episode: "The Quality of Mercy"[17]
2018 I'm Dying Up Here Howard Episode: "Plus One"

Stage

Year Title Role Notes
1997 Script error: No such module "Sort". Bobby Helmer Belasco Theatre[6]

Video games

Year Title Role Notes
2004 Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events Klaus Baudelaire Voice

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Result Work Notes
1999 Young Artist Award Best Performance in a Feature Film - Young Actor Age Ten or Younger Won Stepmom [25]
2003 Young Artist Award Best Performance in a Feature Film - Supporting Young Actor Nominated Road to Perdition [26]
2004 Young Artist Award Best Performance in a Feature Film - Leading Young Actor Nominated Good Boy! [27]
2005 Young Artist Award Best Performance in a Feature Film - Leading Young Actor Nominated Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events [28]
Critics Choice Award Best Young Actor Nominated [29]

References

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