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Throughout the course of his career, Taran Killam has established himself as one of the most versatile actors in Hollywood. Perhaps best-known for his scene-stealing work on Saturday Night Live for six seasons, Taran extended his talents even further in 2017 as he made both his Broadway and feature directorial debuts. Taran has been seen on stage as King George III in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s award-winning Broadway hit Hamilton at Richard Rogers Theater. Although Hamilton was Taran’s Broadway debut, he has appeared off-Broadway in the City Center Encores! presentation of Little Shop of Horrors as Orin Scrivello, opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Ellen Greene in 2015. Taran can be seen in Universal Picture’s Night School opposite Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish, directed by Malcolm D. Lee. In addition, Taran wrote, directed, and starred in the action-comedy Why We’re Killing Gunter opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cobie Smulders, and Bobby Moynihan, released in 2017. He also joined J.K. Simmons, Analeigh Tipton, and Emile Hirsch in the comedy All Nighter, which was released in 2017.

Taran’s previous feature film credits include 12 Years a Slave, The Heat, Grown Ups 2, My Best Friend’s Girl, Big Fat Liar, Just Married, Epic Movie and Brother Nature, which he co-wrote with Mikey Day. On the television side, Taran was a series regular on Saturday Night Live for six seasons. He has also appeared on How I Met Your Mother, Community, Scrubs, New Girl, Drunk History, MADtv, and the Disney Channel Original Movie Stuck in the Suburbs. Taran voiced the lead in the PBS series, Nature Cat, as well as multiple characters in the Weinstein Company’s animated film, Underdogs. Taran was seen in the lead role of the ABC/20th 1⁄2 hour comedy, Single Parents, and in Ryan Murphy's American Crime Story: Impeachment as Steve Jones, opposite Annaleigh Ashford. Taran was seen on NBC's Mr. Mayor opposite Ted Danson and will soon be seen in The River Wild for Universal 1440 Entertainment. Originally from Culver City and Big Bear Lake, California, Taran graduated from Los Angeles High School for the Arts and attended UCLA in 2000.