Aden Young Biography: Wife, Age, Kids, Height, Net Worth, Parents, Movies & TV Shows

Aden Young is a Canadian-Australian actor best known for his critically acclaimed portrayal of Daniel Holden in the SundanceTV drama series Rectify, a role that earned him two nominations for the Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series.

Born in Toronto and raised in Australia, he has built a versatile career spanning independent Australian cinema, international films, and television, including the lead role of Detective Sergeant Henry Graff in Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent.

Aden Young
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Name:	Aden Young
Born:	30 November 1971 (age 54 years old)
Place of Birth:	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality:	Canadian-Australian
Height:	1.83 m
Parents:	Chip Young and Mrs. Young
Siblings:	4
Spouse:	Loene Carmen (m. 2014)
Relationship:	Married
Children:	Dutch Bon Young, Chester Van Young
Occupation:	Actor, Director, Editor
Net Worth:	$3 million

Early Life and Education

Aden Young first saw the light of day on 30 November 1971 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to father Chip Young, an American-born CBC broadcaster, children’s book author and composer, and his mother, a nurse from Newcastle, Australia.

He grew up with four siblings whose names have not been publicly detailed. The family relocated to Australia in 1981. Young attended Galston High School and trained at the Australian Theatre for Young People as a teenager. He is of Caucasian origin, and his religion is Christianity.

Career

Aden Young began his professional acting career at the age of eighteen when he was cast as a young Frenchman in Bruce Beresford‘s historical epic Black Robe in 1991.

The role brought him early international notice, with some in France comparing him to a young Marlon Brando and others in Hollywood seeing potential akin to Mel Gibson. Rather than pursue immediate Hollywood stardom, he returned to Australia to work within the local industry.

He took the lead in Laurie McInnes‘ Broken Highway, which competed at Cannes, and continued with Paul Cox‘s Exile. His performance as Joe in Geoffrey Wright‘s Metal Skin in 1994 earned him a Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Actor and an Australian Film Institute nomination, establishing him as one of the country’s strongest young talents.

Additional early credits included roles in River Street, Cosi, Hotel de Love, and Paradise Road, as well as the American films Sniper and Cousin Bette opposite Jessica Lange.

Young‘s career expanded through the late 1990s and 2000s with a mix of Australian and international projects. He appeared in Molokai: The Story of Father Damien, The War Bride, Serenades, and The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course.

Stage work included the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Hedda Gabler alongside Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving, which later transferred to the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He also directed short films, including the AFI Award-winning The Order and The Rose of Ba Ziz, adapted from a children’s story by his father, and worked as an editor on several Paul Cox projects.

Film roles continued with Mao’s Last Dancer, Beneath Hill 60, The Tree opposite Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lucky Country, and the action thriller Killer Elite alongside Jason Statham and Robert De Niro.

His breakthrough television role arrived in 2013 as Daniel Holden in Rectify, a performance widely praised as one of the finest on television and resulting in two Critics’ Choice nominations, a Satellite Award nomination, and recognition for the series as a Peabody Award winner.

In later years Young maintained a steady presence in both film and television. He played lawyer Stephen Roche in Don’t Tell, earning another Film Critics Circle nomination, and took leading roles in The Disappearance, Reckoning, and Elsewhere.

He appeared as Beau in The King Tide and has portrayed Detective Sergeant Henry Graff in Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent since 2024, marking a significant return to Canadian production.

Across more than three decades, Young has balanced leading and supporting roles in independent and mainstream projects, directed and edited, and earned a reputation for nuanced, emotionally complex performances that have left a lasting mark on both Australian and international screens.

Personal Life

Aden Young is married to Australian singer-songwriter, musician and actress Loene Carmen, whom he wed in 2014 in Zebulon, Georgia, while filming the second season of Rectify.

The couple, who had been together for several years prior, have two sons: Dutch Bon Young, born in 2007, and Chester Van Young, born in 2011.

Filmography

• Black Robe (1991)
• Over the Hill (1992)
• Sniper (1993)
• Broken Highway (1993)
• Metal Skin (1994)
• Exile (1994)
• Cosi (1996)
• River Street (1996)
• Hotel de Love (1996)
• Paradise Road (1997)
• Cousin Bette (1998)
• Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999)
• The War Bride (2001)
• The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2002)
• The Bet (2005)
• Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
• Lucky Country (2009)
• Beneath Hill 60 (2010)
• The Tree (2010)
• Killer Elite (2011)
• I, Frankenstein (2014)
• Frontera (2014)
• Don’t Tell (2017)
• Elsewhere (2019)
• The King Tide (2023)
• Rectify (2013–2016)
• The Code (2014)
• The Disappearance (2017)
• Reckoning (2019)
• Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent (2024–)

Net Worth

Aden Young has an estimated net worth of approximately $3 million, accumulated through a long and steady career in film and television.

Primary sources of income include acting salaries from feature films and series such as Rectify and Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent, along with earnings from directing, editing, and related professional work in the entertainment industry.

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