Keidrich Sellati Biography: In His Own Words – Exclusive Video, News, Photos, Age

Keidrich Sellati is a rising American actor who is best known for portraying Henry Jennings in the FX drama television series The Americans for the entirety of the show.

KEIDRICH SELLATI BIOGRAPHY: AGE, EARLY LIFE, FAMILY, EDUCATION

Keidrich Sellati was born on October 22, 2001 (Keidrich Sellati age: 21), in Colorado. He has two siblings, one brother, whose name has not yet been identified, and one sister, Peyton Sellati. He attended New York City public school, where he graduated in 2020.

KEIDRICH SELLATI BIOGRAPHY: CAREER

Sellati began his acting career at 11 years old. He made his film debut in the drama/adventure coming-of-age independent film Rockaway, a movie for which he was awarded numerous accolades and nominations.

In an exclusive interview with uInterview, Sellati spoke about his experience working with a younger cast in his debut film, Rockaway.

“It was definitely different from anything I’ve ever done before,” Sellati commented. “Working with people my age and younger was interesting, at first. It was really fun and really enjoyable, don’t get me wrong. But it was very different from what I’ve normally done because anything else I did was always with only adults. This is the first time I actually worked with kids and teens, but it was great. It felt like I was just hanging out with my friends, to be honest. Some of them, you know, were decently younger by a few years, but it didn’t really matter. And we all became great friends and we still talk. So it was interesting. There’s always the joke, we almost got kicked out of the hotel that we were all staying in, like a few times, so there’s always a joke that we were all like really bad, but we were all really good in reality, I promise.”

Sellati then went on to discuss how he prepared himself for his unique role in the film.

“It’s hard because the movie’s meant to be fun and heavy,” Sellati admitted. “So the fun parts were easy, you know? I was just having fun, but the heavy parts were really, I don’t want to say difficult, but they were really interesting. Personally, I’m not abused or anything. Never have been, luckily, thank God. But I looked at how my dad had treated me when I was younger and then just amplified that, and for the other actors too, they did similar things. They looked around them and saw people who were abused, maybe not in their personal life, but on the news, or in stories. And, we all kind of, we all got that seriousness from somewhere, and I got it from a mixture of my own life and just over-amplifying it. Especially as a young man, as a young kid, you see everything a little bit more dramatic than it necessarily is. Granted, it was very problematic, the abuse, but I had to go through my life and overamplify the bad things that happened to me. I had to get that, and then the murder part, it wasn’t even really like a gruesome murder or anything. It was just like, actually John [Budion] explains it really well. The kids didn’t want to do anything that didn’t seem like something a kid would do, right? The whole idea was to blow out the light and then push a boiler on top of him because he was drunk. That’s never going to work, but in a kid’s mind, it will. And so, the whole idea was to, although it was very serious and although it was very important and heartbreaking to see abuse, it was awesome from a kid’s perspective.”

Sellati also went on to speak about the real-life basis for this film.

“So, it’s based off of true events and real people,” Sellati declared. “In fact, all of the people in the movie, that’s their real names. None of the names were changed, none of the personalities were changed. Nothing was changed. Those are actually the people that John, the director, grew up with, and, Anthony is still alive in real life. But he was in FDNY, NYPD, Air Force, all that. And he did actually get hurt in a fire. He got forcefully retired from FDNY because of his lungs. He basically he went into a fire and god destroyed his lungs, unfortunately, but yeah. So everything is based off of true people, for sure.” 

When asked his thoughts regarding the series finale of The Americans, here is what Sellati had to say:

“So, when I first saw the script, it didn’t quite hit me the first time I read it. I was like, ‘damn, that sucks,’ to be honest. And then, I read it again. Then, we did a table read and when it hit everybody else around me, it hit me at the same time. I was like, ‘Oh, ‘they’re really leaving their son.’ People at the table read were crying and they had already read it once before, so it was like ohh damn. But, yeah, when I first read it, I was like, ‘This is cool, but like, I don’t know.’ The second and third time though, I was blown away. I was like no way.”

KEIDRICH SELLATI BIOGRAPHY: PERSONAL LIFE

Sellati currently resides in New York with his family. Some of his hobbies include playing lacrosse, traveling, snowmobiling and recreational paintballing. He is also an avid snowboarder and hockey player who loves exploring different cultures and traditions worldwide.