Biography
Aden Young (born November 30, 1971) is a Canadian-Australian actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Daniel Holden in the SundanceTV drama Rectify, for which he was twice nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series. He has appeared in American, Canadian, and Australian productions and since 2024 has performed the lead role of Det. Henry Graff in Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent. Young has two sons, Dutch (born 2007) and Chester (born 2011), with ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The King Tide
2024
as Beau
After the mayor of an idyllic island village discovers a child with mysterious powers awash on their shores, the once peaceful community devolves into...

Poker Face
2022
as Alex Harris
A yearly high-stakes poker game between childhood friends turns into chaos when the tech billionaire host unveils an elaborate scheme to seek revenge ...

Elsewhere
2020
as Bruno
A man does everything in his power to keep ownership of a seaside cottage he built with his late wife.

Abandoned: Angelique's Isle
2018
as Cyrus Mendenhall
Angelique's Isle is the true story of a harrowing tale of perseverance and survival that unfolds during the great copper rush of 1845, when newlyweds ...

Don't Tell
2017
as Stephen Roche
Based on true events that changed the law. This is the story of a survivor, Lyndal, a young woman sexually abused as an 11 year old while attending a ...

The Unseen
2016
as Bob Langmore
A man, who years earlier mysteriously abandoned his family and isolated himself in a small northern town, returns for one last chance to reconnect wit...

Frontera
2014
as Sheriff Randall Hunt
After crossing the border illegally for work, Miguel, a hard-working father and devoted husband, finds himself wrongfully accused of murdering a forme...

I, Frankenstein
2014
as Dr. Frankenstein
200 years after his shocking creation, Dr. Frankenstein's creature, Adam, still walks the earth. But when he finds himself in the middle of a war over...

Final Recipe
2013
as Sean
Hao's Singaporean restaurant is in danger of going out of business. Hao's grandson, Mark, secretly travels to Shanghai to attend a cooking competition...

Killer Elite
2011
as Meier
Based on a shocking true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world’s most elite operatives—Danny, an ex-special ops agent and Hunter, his longtime men...

Waste Not
2011
Editor
Waste Not is a film about where your garbage goes, who sorts it for you, and what it is worth if it isn't just tossed into landfill. It's easier and c...

Beneath Hill 60
2010
as Major Brady North
The true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare—one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. I...

The Tree
2010
as Peter O'Neil
The O'Neills lived happily in their house in the Australian countryside. That was until one day fate struck blindly, taking the life of Peter, the fat...

Mao’s Last Dancer
2009
as Dilworth
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during ...

Lucky Country
2009
as Nat
1902....the Australian Federation is a year old. Twelve year-old Tom's father, Nat, has dragged him and his sister, Sarah, to an isolated farm at the ...

Salvation
2009
Editor
Aging artist and scholar Barry is disenchanted with his existence - disillusioned by his sexless marriage to a televangelist, and repulsed by her bran...
Shot Open
2009
as Dodek
In 19th century Australia, an exiled Polish thief struggles to get to Sydney to start a new life. When he takes refuge with a young woman his understa...

The Bet
2007
as Angus
Young Sydney stockbroker, Will, makes a bet with his rich mate Angus - who can make the most money in three months with $50,000? Obsessed with winning...

The Goat That Ate Time
2007
as Narrator (voice)
A goat with an appetite for life realises that time is dangerously delicious.

In the Company of Actors
2007
as Self / Eilert Lovburg
Within the world of theatre the rehearsal room is a sacred space -- the private domain where boundaries are pushed, risks taken, mistakes made, vulner...

After the Deluge
2003
as Young Cliff
Follows the stories of the four men of the Kirby family. As Alex's marriage breaks apart, Toby tries desperately to start a family, and Marty tries to...

The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
2002
as Ron Buckwhiler
Steve Irwin, AKA The Crocodile Hunter, has avoided the death-roll and saved a croc from poachers. But what he doesn't know is that the crocodile has s...

Serenades
2001
as Johann
Set in the 1890s in the central desert region of Australia, 'Serenades' tells the tale of Jila who is conceived when her Afghan cameleer father wins h...

The War Bride
2001
as Charlie
During World War II, a Cockney woman marries a Canadian soldier and adjusts to life in Alberta.

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
1999
as Dr. Kalewis
The true story of the 19th century Belgian priest, Father Damien, who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.

Under Heaven
1998
as Buck
Two young lovers try to con a wealthy woman out of her inheritance by pretending to be brother and sister.

Cousin Bette
1998
as Wenceslas
Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her ...

River Street
1997
as Ben Egan
Ben, an arrogant, hustling property developer is wrongly arrested and things from bad to worse when he accidentally punches a policeman at the station...

Paradise Road
1997
as Bill Seary
A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during Wor...

Hotel de Love
1996
as Rick Dunne
10 years ago at a party, Steven thinks he sees the girl of his dreams, Melissa. Just as he's about to make his move, his twin brother Rick gets to her...

Cosi
1996
as Nick
Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney inst...

Exile
1994
as Peter Costello
When Peter Costello is exiled to a deserted island for stealing sheep, Mary, a maid, decides to join him there.

Shotgun Wedding
1994
as Jimmy Becker
Shotgun Wedding is a 1993 Australian film based on the Wally Melish siege.

Metal Skin
1994
as Joe
Psycho Joe loves one thing: fast cars! When he gets a job at a local supermarket, Joe meets fellow "petrol head" Dazey, who quickly becomes his idol a...

Broken Highway
1993
as Angel
In this moody black and white drama, very much in the mode of the American "western," but with its own film noir characteristics, a whole town is heav...

Love In Limbo
1993
as Barry McJannet
Ken Riddle (Craig Adams), to whom sex is a mystery, joins his two mates from work, Arthur (Russell Crowe) and Barry (Aden Young), on a trip to Kalgoor...

Sniper
1993
as Doug Papich
Tough guy Thomas Beckett is an US soldier working in the Panamanian jungle. His job is to seek out rebels and remove them using his sniper skills. Bec...

Over the Hill
1992
as Nick
Alma can't stand to have one more birthday without seeing her estranged daughter, Elizabeth, who lives in Sydney, Australia.

Black Robe
1991
as Daniel
Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians, ...