Ellar Coltrane, the boy at the center of Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, spent 12 years filming the director’s epic coming-of-age project, with Linklater shooting a little bit each year.

On a hot, humid day in Ellar Coltrane’s last spring as a teenager, nothing is going as planned. The star of Richard Linklater’s new film, Boyhood, a feat of conceptual daring that tracks a ...

Ellar Coltrane would really love to tell some lies, to mix up things up with the press and save what little is left of his suddenly under-siege privacy. “I made some up,” he admitted ...

Once a year for 12 years, Ellar Coltrane would spend four days filming Richard Linklater’s Boyhood. Now he’s a grown man, and his brilliant film is finally hitting theaters. Senior Editor, ...

It’s often said that child stars grow up on camera. Never has that been more true than in Ellar Coltrane’s case. You probably don’t know the young actor’s name yet — but that’s because ...

Actor Ellar Coltrane's formative years — from ages 7 to 19 — were chronicled by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Richard Linklater for the groundbreaking coming-of-age epic, "Boyhood." Coltrane sat ...

The director — and his stars Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette and Ellar Coltrane — reveal secrets from the set of their critical darling, about a regular kid growing up By Gregg Kilday Freelance ...

Ellar Coltrane has been saying goodbye. The blue-eyed actor, model, and Austin native, whom moviegoers watched grow up over a twelve-year span in Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, is moving to New ...

NPR's Tamara Keith speaks with the star of the film, Ellar Coltrane, who spent over a decade shooting the movie. The film "Boyhood," which opened last night in LA and New York, was shot over 12 years.

Ellar Coltrane would really love to tell some lies, to mix up things up with the press and save what little is left of his suddenly under-siege privacy. “I made some up,” he admitted ...

We are joined now by Ellar Coltrane who plays Mason, Jr. - the boy of "Boyhood" - the main character who we see grow up on screen. And let's get something out of the way. This is not a documentary ...