Birkett Turton
Birkett Turton is an actor, born 1982.
Birkett Turton, credited through much of his career as Kett, is what a healthy production town looks like from the inside. Born in Portland and working out of Canada, he has spent nearly thirty years in the guest-star economy of Vancouver and Toronto television: an episode of Millennium, one of Smallville, one of Dark Angel, then The Dead Zone, Dead Like Me, 24, Supernatural, Fringe, Gotham, The Flash, Blue Bloods, Jessica Jones, iZombie, The Magicians, Riverdale. The list is long enough that a certain kind of viewer will recognise the face without ever placing it.
2004 was the year everything landed at once. He is Dingo in Blade: Trinity, Mitch in Saved!, Kenner in Walking Tall, Rabozzo in The Five People You Meet In Heaven and Antubis in Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital, five credits in a single year, mostly small parts at the edge of the frame and mostly some flavour of unsettling.
He does that part well, which is a real skill and also a trap. The interesting exceptions are the jobs where somebody cast against it: Todd Solondz handed him a film director in Wiener-Dog, and Family Law finally gave him a recurring character with a profession and a surname, the lawyer Yannick Krol. Recent work includes Ezra in Earth Abides and Darren in the 2025 film Keeper. His one starring role, the 2001 series Dead Last, is not among the credits listed here, which leaves this page reading as what it is: a working actor's page, three decades deep, with no single performance to hang it on.
Movies (10)
TV (13)
Where to start with Birkett Turton
No single performance leads here, so choose by the company he is keeping. Wiener-Dog is the best film on the list by a distance, a Todd Solondz picture in which Turton plays a director, and it hints at a different career that never quite happened. Saved! is the most enjoyable, a sharp high-school satire from his busiest year. Blade: Trinity and Walking Tall are the studio action credits from those same twelve months. Family Law is where to go for sustained work, as the attorney Yannick Krol. Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital is the strangest thing on the page, and Earth Abides is the recent post-apocalyptic one.