Chandler Canterbury Movies and Career Information

Chandler Canterbury (born December 15, 1998) is an American child actor. Canterbury was born in Houston, Texas, to Kristine and Rusty Canterbury, and resides in Houston. He starred in Summit Entertainment's thriller Knowing (2009) for director Alex Proyas (I, Robot (2004)), alongside Nicolas Cage and Rose Byrne. Chandler plays Caleb, an elementary school student who finds a mysterious cryptic message from his school's time capsule that he suspects might mean something. Chandler can be seen in the Paramount/Warner Bros film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) for director David Fincher (Fight Club (1999) and Se7en (1995)), starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Adapted from the 1920s short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man (Pitt) who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. Chandler plays "Benjamin Button" at the age of 8, who has the dementia of an old man. He recently wrapped a lead role in the psychological thriller After.Life (2010), opposite Liam Neeson and Christina Ricci. He has also appeared in Universal's Repo Men (2010), opposite Jude Law and Forest Whitaker, and also in Timothy Linh Bui's Powder Blue