Callan McAuliffe Australian Actor Known for Summer Night

Early life

Callan Ryan Claude McAuliffe was born in 1995 and comes from Sydney, Australia, where he grew up in the suburb of Clontarf. He attended The Scots College, an all-boys school in Bellevue Hill. At school he was head chorister, and in 2008 he topped the Trinity College London musical theatre examinations with a high distinction. He also competed in track and field until an injury pushed him to concentrate more on the performing arts.

Career

McAuliffe began acting as a child, appearing on Australian television in Comedy Inc. and Blue Water High, and later in a recurring role on Packed to the Rafters. In 2009 he starred in the independent short film Franswa Sharl and had a part in Resistance.

His first American feature was Flipped, directed by Rob Reiner and based on the novel by Wendelin Van Draanen. He auditioned while on holiday in the United States and was cast as Bryce, one of the two leads. In May 2010 he was cast in the science fiction film I Am Number Four, in which he played Sam, the best friend of Alex Pettyfer's title character. The film was produced by Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay.

He next appeared in the Australian miniseries Cloudstreet, adapted from Tim Winton's novel, as the young Quick Lamb. In 2012 he took a role in the Australian television film Underground: The Julian Assange Story, playing one of the teenage Assange's friends. He played the young Jay Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann's 2013 film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, which is recorded with a worldwide box office of $354 million. Also in 2013 he starred in Beneath the Harvest Sky. He was announced that February as a lead in Kite, a live-action remake of a 1998 Japanese animated film, alongside Samuel L. Jackson and India Eisley. That project was released in 2014, the same year as Robot Overlords.

Before the project was suspended, he had been cast as the archangel Uriel in Alex Proyas's Paradise Lost. In 2015 he joined the cast of The Legend of Ben Hall, an Australian historical drama about the bushranger Ben Hall, playing the gang member Daniel Ryan, and he also appeared in The Stanford Prison Experiment that year. Hacker followed in 2016. From 2017 to 2022 he played Alden on the television series The Walking Dead. In 2018 he appeared in the film Summer Night, and in the same year he published his first novel, The Hill Ghost.

Reference listings count twelve screen credits for him, ten films and two television series, and name Summer Night, The Great Gatsby and The Stanford Prison Experiment among the titles he is known for.

Public roles

In November 2011 McAuliffe was a presenter at the final edition of the IF Awards, held at Luna Park in Sydney, where IF Magazine described him as an actor to watch. In November 2013 he was named a national ambassador for UNICEF Australia. In 2013 he also served as youth ambassador for Wolf Connection, a California-based non-profit organisation that rescues wolves and wolf-dogs and runs a youth education and empowerment programme.