Kodi Smit-McPhee (born 13 June 1996) is an Australian actor. He gained recognition as a child actor for his leading roles in The Road (2009) and Let Me In (2010). In 2021, Smit-McPhee garnered critical acclaim for his performance as Peter Gordon in Jane Campion's western film The Power of the Dog, for which he earned nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. He provided the voice of the titular character in ParaNorman (2012) and appeared in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), Alpha (2018), and Dark Phoenix (2019).

Filmography

• 2026Confession
• 2026The Passenger — Lloyd
• Disclaimer — Nicholas Ravenscroft
• 2024Maria — Mandrax
• 2024Memoir of a Snail — Gilbert (voice)
• 2022Elvis — Jimmie Rodgers Snow
• 2021The Power of the Dog — Peter Gordon
• 20202067 — Ethan Whyte
• Interrogation — Chris Keller
• 2019Dark Phoenix — Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
• 2019Dolemite Is My Name — Nick von Sternberg
• 2018Alpha — Keda
• 2018Deadpool 2 — Nightcrawler (uncredited)
• 2018Once Upon a Deadpool — Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler (uncredited)
• 2016X-Men: Apocalypse — Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
• Gallipoli — Thomas "Tolly" Johnson
• 2015Slow West — Jay Cavendish
• 2014All the Wilderness — James Charm
• 2014Dawn of the Planet of the Apes — Alexander
• 2014Maya the Bee Movie — Willy (voice)
• 2014Young Ones — Jerome Holm
• 2013A Birder's Guide to Everything — David Portnoy
• 2013Romeo & Juliet — Benvolio
• 2013The Congress — Aaron Wright
• 2012Dead Europe — Josef
• 2012ParaNorman — Norman Babcock (voice)
• 2010Let Me In — Owen
• 2010Matching Jack — Finn
• 2009The Road — Boy
• 2008The Adventures of Charlotte and Henry — Henry (voice)
• 2008The Tender Hook — Jimmy
• 2007Romulus, My Father — Raimond
• 2007The King — Young John Wesley
• 2006End of Town — Brother
• 2006Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America — Toby Connelly
• Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King — Brandon, Jackson Evans
• 2006Stranded — Teddy
• Black Palace
• Untitled NAVY Seal Film

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2022Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion — Self (archive footage)
• 2015SLOW WEST in SUPER EIGHT — Self
• The Oscars — Self