Cast Spotlight Tate Ellington

Rumour on the net has Tate Ellington being cast for the part of Aidan, Tyler Roth’s friend and room-mate. Pictures appeared yesterday and Monday of Tate and Rob being filmed as they were walking around the campus of NYU.

Tate Ellington has had both theater and film experience. Currently he is appearing on Broadway in the Roundabout Theater Company’s production of The Philanthropist which also stars Matthew Broderick. Tate plays a young student who is also a playwright. The play runs through June 28th.

His film credits include the character Oliver Hunt in the drama Elephant King (2006). Oliver is the quiet, shy brother who is involved in a continuous victim-bully relationship with his domineering and angry older brother. They try to come to terms with their relationship amid drink, drugs and women in exotic Thailand. Elephant King was a selection to the Tribecca Film Festival in 2007, and Tate was awarded the 2007 Brooklyn International Film Festival Certificate of Excellence for this role.

He was cast in the horror film, Red Hook (2009), in which he plays Gavin, the boyfriend of an agoraphobic college freshman who has to go on a scavenger hunt through out New York City in order to save his life. Red Hook is due to be released later this year.

Tate has had parts in Breaking Upwards (2009), a romantic comedy indie flick, Taking Chance (2009) a real-life based real-life drama, Decent (2007), Red (2008), and You are Alone (2005), all three dramas.

He has two movie shorts to his credit too. Lower East Side (2005) is a 17 minute short. Tate was one of three cast in Ariana (2004), a 27 minute short which won the 2006 Audience Award for Best Short Film at the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival. He plays the live-in lover of a man who is dealing with the advancing dementia of his live-in grandmother.

Tate has also guest-starred in two TV series, Fox’s Rescue Me and the 2009 summertime ABC drama, The Unusuals.





Photo Sources.
mrpattinson.com
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