Owen Teague

Owen Teague (birthname: Owen William Teague), who has appeared in no less than three Stephen King adaptations for the big and small screen, launched his feature film career with a supporting role in writer-director Anthony Joseph Giunta’s comedy-drama, Contest (2013), with Kenton Duty, Daniel Flaherty, Katherine McNamara, and Mary Beth Pell, and which premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival and was released by Arc Entertainment.

Teague opted for the Western genre for his second feature role in co-writer/director Kane Senes’ drama, Echoes of War (2015), co-starring James Badge Dale, Ethan Embry, William Forsythe, Maika Monroe, and Rhys Wakefield, and had a limited release from Echo Bridge Entertainment.

Teague landed a supporting role as Young Walt Disney in the Walt Disney biopic, Walt Before Mickey (2015), with Thomas Ian Nicholas (as adult Walt), Jon Heder, and Jodie Sweetin, and distributed by Voltage Pictures. Teague appeared in his first of several Stephen King adaptations with the poorly-received Cell (2016), starring John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Isabelle Fuhrman, and Stacy Keach, under Tod Williams’s direction, earning a poor $1 million for distributor Sabat Films.

Owen Teague continued his run with Stephen King projects when he was cast as psychopathic animal killer Patrick Hockstetter in both halves of the It series, It (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019), with Jaeden Lieberher, Bill Skarsgård, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Wyatt Oleff, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer, Nicholas Hamilton, James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, and Andy Bean, and grossing a combined $1.17 billion for co-producers New Line Cinema/Lin Pictures/Vertigo Entertainment/KatzSmith Productions and distributor Warner Bros. Pictures. Teague had a supporting part in Orion Pictures’ romantic fantasy, Every Day (2018), with Angourie Rice, Justice Smith, Debby Ryan, and Maria Bello, and earned a fair $10.4 million global gross.

Teague scored a co-starring role in the well-received horror movie, I See You (2019), directed by Adam Randall, co-starring Helen Hunt, Jon Tenney, Libe Barer, and Judah Lewis, and released by Saban Films after a South by Southwest Film Festival premiere. Teague joined the cast of Josh Hartnett, Margarita Leveiva, Chandler Riggs, Bruce Dern, and Dash Mihok in the Anthony Jerjen-directed crime drama, Inherit the Viper (2019), premiering at the Zurich Film Festival before a Lionsgate release.

Owen Teague, after being cast in support in the Michael Goi-directed supernatural horror movie, Mary (2019), with Gary Oldman and Emily Mortimer, was also supported in another horror film, writer-director David Prior’s The Empty Man (2020), with James Badge Dale, Marin Ireland, Stephen Root, and Ron Canada, but losing money for 20^th Century Fox with a poor $4.8 million (against $16 million costs). Teague landed his first starring role in director/writer/producer Scott McGehee’s and David Siegel’s drama, Montana Story (2021), co-starring Haley Lu Richardson, Gilbert Owuor, Kimberly Guerrero, and Eugene Brave Rock, and released by Bleecker Street/Stage 6 Films after premiering at the Toronto Film Festival.

Teague played opposite Winona Ryder, Dermot Mulroney, John Gallagher Jr., and Brianne Tju in co-writer/director Eli Horowitz’s thriller, Gone in the Night (2022), premiering at the South by Southwest Film Festival and released by Vertical Entertainment to poor box office ($266,466 in returns). Teague was then cast alongside Andrea Riseborough, Andre Royo, Stephen Root, Marc Maron, and Allison Janney in the striking Michael Morris-directed drama, To Leslie (2022), which premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival and was released by Momentum Pictures.

Owen Teague played in support of Thomasin McKenzie, Anne Hathaway, Shea Whigham, and Marin Ireland in the William Oldroyd-directed screen version of Odessa Moshfegh’s novel (with Moshfegh as both co-screenwriter and producer), Eileen (2023), launching at the Sundance Film Festival and then released by Neon/Focus Features/Universal Pictures to a $1,7 million global gross. Teague played under filmmaker Nicole Holofcener’s comedy-drama, You Hurt My Feelings (2023), with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tobias Menzies, Michaela Watkins, Arian Moayed, and Jeanie Berlin, and also premiering at Sundance before a successful A24 release delivering a $5.7 million global return.

Teague joined the intense ensemble of Benicio del Toro, Justin Timberlake, Alicia Silverstone, Michael Pitt, Ato Essandoh, Sky Ferreira, Frances Fisher, Eric Bogosian, and Catherine Dyer in co-writer/director Grant Singer’s crime thriller, Reptile (2023), released both theatrically and on streaming by Netflix after a Toronto Film Festival premiere. Teague was part of the ensemble of director/writer Nicholas Colia’s comedy, Griffin in Summer (2024), starring Everett Blunck, Kathryn Newton, Melanie Lynskey, Michael Esper, and Abby Ryder Fortson, and premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Owen Teague had his first starring role in a studio blockbuster, the sequel Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024), directed by Wes Ball and co-starring Freya Allan, Kevin Durand, Peter Macon, and William H. Macy, and released by 20^th Century Studios. Teague then reunited with filmmakers Scott McGehee and David Siegel for the big-screen adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s novel, The Friend (date to be announced), starring Naomi Watts, Bill Murray, Sarah Pidgeon, Constance Wu, Ann Dowd, Noam Dumezweni, Felix Solis, and Carla Gugino.