Taran Killam

Taran Killam was born on April 1, 1982 in Culver City, California, USA as Taran Hourie Killam. He is an actor, known for Saturday Night Live (1975), The Heat (2013) and 12 Years a Slave (2013). He has been married to Cobie Smulders, since September 8, 2012. They have two children.

Movies

Just Married

Charming, relatively poor, somewhat goofy Tom falls in love with haughty snob tycoon McNerney’s spoiled daughter Sarah, who was destined for a more socialite match, such as slick Peter Prentiss. They still get married and fly to Europe for a romantic honeymoon Tom can’t afford. Their love gets tested dangerously…

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Fun Facts

His great-aunt is actress Rosemarie Stack and his great-uncle was Rosemarie's husband, actor Robert Stack.

The youngest cast member on MADtv (1995) at 19.

Announced that he and girlfriend Cobie Smulders, are expecting their first child in Spring 2009. [November 26, 2008].

His wife Cobie Smulders gave birth to their first child, daughter Shaelyn Cado Killam, on May 16, 2009.

He is two days older than his spouse Cobie Smulders.

Taran's younger brother, Taylor, plays guitar in Allura, a Los Angeles metal band.

The second person to be a cast member on both Saturday Night Live (1975) and MADtv (1995), the first being Jeff Richards. g.

Alumni of the Groundlings Theatre in Los Angeles.

His patrilineal ancestry can be traced back to John Killam, who was born, c. 1627, in Suffolk, England, and moved to Massachusetts.

His wife Cobie Smulders gave birth to their second child, daughter Janita Mae Killam, in early January 2015.

Quotes

[re his audition with Lorne Michaels for 'SNL'] I said: 'I don't want to be so presumptuous to say I'll come on your show and I'll kill. But I definitely think if you hired me, I'd do a very good job'. He said: 'No, no, no, no. Confidence isn't your problem.' And he just left it at that. But all I could think is: 'Wait, what is my problem? Tell me what my problem is, I'll fix it!'