Trevor Mansur: Inside the Life of Josh Brolin’s Son and Filmmaker

NextVolAugust 19, 2026Last Updated: August 19, 2026

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Trevor Mansur is the eldest child of actor Josh Brolin and actress Alice Adair, and his connection to one of Hollywood’s best-known acting families has made him a subject of continuing public interest. Born Trevor Mansur Brolin on June 26, 1988, in Los Angeles, he followed his family into entertainment but developed a relatively low-profile career of his own, working across acting, directing, producing, writing, cinematography and music. His documented film work includes the short film Felt, as well as credits connected with X and All Kids Count. In recent years, public reporting has also connected him with Albuquerque’s entertainment and production community. In April 2026, his father publicly announced Trevor’s engagement to Kristin Wood-Hegner, giving readers another reason to search for the private member of the Brolin family.

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Quick Bio

Fact	Verified information
Full Name	Trevor Mansur Brolin
Known As	Trevor Brolin; Trevor Mansur
Profession	Actor, producer, director, writer and cinematographer
Nationality	American
Birthplace	Los Angeles, California, United States
Birth Date	June 26, 1988
Age	38 as of August 19, 2026
Parents	Josh Brolin and Alice Adair
Sibling	Eden Brolin
Grandfather	James Brolin
Step-grandmother	Barbra Streisand
Known For	Felt, X and All Kids Count
Relationship to Josh Brolin	Eldest son
Partner	Kristin Wood-Hegner; engagement publicly announced in April 2026
Current Location	Albuquerque, New Mexico, according to recent reporting
Current Professional Information	Public reporting identifies him as a production manager and connects him with Albuquerque’s entertainment sector
Education	No reliable, widely documented educational history located

The core biographical details about Trevor Mansur are supported most directly by IMDb, which identifies his birth name, date and place of birth, family connections and entertainment credits, while recent reporting provides additional information about his engagement and professional life in Albuquerque. Some frequently repeated online claims about his education, height, net worth or detailed employment history are not sufficiently supported by authoritative public sources and therefore are not presented here as established facts.

Who Is Trevor Mansur?

Trevor Mansur Brolin is an American creative professional best known publicly as Josh Brolin’s son, but his documented career extends beyond that family connection. He was born into a Hollywood family in which acting was already an established profession: his father, Josh Brolin, became known for films including No Country for Old Men, Milk, True Grit, Sicario and his Marvel roles, while his grandfather James Brolin is a veteran actor. Trevor’s mother is Alice Adair, an actress whom Josh married in 1988. Trevor is also the older brother of Eden Brolin, who developed her own acting career.

What distinguishes Trevor from some members of his family is the relatively small amount of public information surrounding his life. Rather than becoming a highly visible Hollywood performer, he appears to have explored several creative roles and subsequently developed a more private professional life. IMDb credits him as an actor, producer and director and records additional work as a writer, cinematographer and member of the music department. That combination makes the description “filmmaker” more useful than simply calling him an actor.

His filmography is also notable because it shows involvement in different stages of production. Felt, released as a short in 2011, is associated with Trevor as a director, writer, actor, producer and cinematographer, illustrating that his interest was not limited to performing in front of a camera. His earlier connection with X involved the music department, while All Kids Count lists him in an acting role. These credits provide the clearest public evidence of his early filmmaking ambitions.

The interest in Trevor Mansur therefore comes from two overlapping stories: his place within a prominent Hollywood family and his attempt to develop a creative identity separate from his father’s celebrity. Public records do not support portraying him as a major mainstream movie star, and doing so would overstate the available evidence. Instead, he is better understood as a private filmmaker and entertainment professional with a limited but varied body of documented work.

Background in Filmmaking and Production

Trevor Mansur’s documented professional background began with independent and short-form filmmaking rather than a large studio acting career. IMDb lists X, a 2008 short film, among his known credits and places him in the music department for that project. The film is particularly interesting in the context of his family because it was written and directed by his father, Josh Brolin, giving Trevor an early opportunity to participate in a project created within his own family network.

His most substantial documented filmmaking credit is Felt, a 2011 short. Available film databases identify Trevor as part of the creative team, with IMDb crediting him as an actor, producer, director, writer and cinematographer. The project demonstrates a broad interest in filmmaking because those roles cover both creative and technical sides of production. Rather than being known solely for appearing on screen, Trevor was involved in shaping the project itself.

Trevor also appeared in All Kids Count, another 2011 project, where IMDb identifies his role as a mall shopper. This was a much smaller acting credit than the work associated with Felt, and there is no reliable evidence that he pursued the kind of extensive acting career achieved by his father or sister. His available credits instead suggest an individual comfortable moving between different areas of independent production.

His connection to filmmaking is important because online descriptions sometimes reduce him to “Josh Brolin’s son.” That label explains why people search for him, but it does not completely describe his professional background. The available record shows a genuine creative involvement in film production, even though the public record is comparatively limited.

More recent information indicates that Trevor’s professional interests have expanded beyond the film credits that made him searchable in entertainment databases. In a 2025 Albuquerque Journal Q&A, Kristin Wood-Hegner identified her partner, Trevor Brolin, as a production manager and former teacher. Separate 2026 reporting connected Trevor with Revel, an Albuquerque entertainment organization. Because these more recent details come from reporting and a public statement rather than an extensive official biography, they should be treated as the best publicly available information rather than a complete employment history.

Marriage or Relationship with Kristin Wood-Hegner

Trevor Mansur is engaged to Kristin Wood-Hegner, although the couple have generally maintained a private relationship. The engagement became public in April 2026 when Josh Brolin shared the news on Instagram and expressed his happiness for the couple. Contemporary reporting identified Wood-Hegner as Trevor’s fiancée and stated that the couple resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The available information indicates that Wood-Hegner has her own professional identity outside the Brolin family. An Albuquerque Journal profile published in October 2025 described her as a former ESL teacher and violent-crimes grant administrator and identified Trevor as her supportive partner, describing him as a production manager and former teacher. That source is particularly useful because it predates the engagement announcement and independently documents their relationship.

Josh Brolin’s April 2026 announcement brought the relationship into wider public attention. According to reporting on the announcement, Trevor and Wood-Hegner both maintain private Instagram accounts, which is consistent with the broader pattern of Trevor keeping his personal life away from the Hollywood spotlight. The public record does not provide reliable details about when the relationship began, where they met, wedding plans or a wedding date, so those details should not be assumed.

As of August 2026, the accurate description is therefore engaged, not married, unless a subsequent verified announcement establishes otherwise. There is also no reliable public information confirming that Trevor and Wood-Hegner have children together.

Parenthood and Family Life

Trevor Mansur grew up as the first child of Josh Brolin and Alice Adair, whose marriage began in 1988. His younger sister, Eden Brolin, was born several years later, and the two siblings are Josh Brolin’s older children. After Josh’s later marriages, Trevor became part of a larger blended family that includes his younger half-sisters Westlyn Reign and Chapel Grace.

Josh Brolin has occasionally spoken publicly about his children and shared photographs or memories involving Trevor and Eden. One particularly notable example came in connection with Josh’s preparation for the 2008 film W., in which he played former U.S. President George W. Bush. Josh told ABC News that he initially turned down the project without reading the script, but Trevor read it and persuaded his father to reconsider the role. That story offers an unusual glimpse into their relationship and shows that Trevor’s influence on his father’s career was not necessarily limited to filmmaking itself.

The Brolin family has remained an important part of Trevor’s public identity, but the available evidence also suggests that he has not sought the same level of celebrity exposure as his father. Josh Brolin’s first marriage to Alice Adair produced Trevor and Eden, while his later marriage to Kathryn Boyd produced Westlyn and Chapel. People reported that Josh and Alice remained close co-parents following their divorce, although detailed information about their private family arrangements is limited.

Trevor’s relationship with his sister Eden is another point of interest. Eden followed the family tradition into entertainment, becoming known for acting work including Beyond and Yellowstone. Trevor and Eden consequently represent two different approaches to growing up in a famous Hollywood family: Eden has developed a recognizable on-screen career, while Trevor has maintained a quieter profile and explored production and creative work.

Life After His Early Film Career

Following his documented filmmaking work in the late 2000s and early 2010s, Trevor Mansur appears to have moved into a less public phase of his professional life. His IMDb page does not show an extensive stream of recent film and television credits, and available reporting suggests that his interests and employment have extended beyond conventional Hollywood filmmaking. This is an important distinction because the absence of recent credits does not establish that he completely left entertainment; it simply means that a detailed current filmography is not publicly documented.

More recent public information places Trevor in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In 2025, the Albuquerque Journal identified him as a production manager and former teacher through a profile of his partner Kristin Wood-Hegner. In April 2026, reporting on his engagement stated that Trevor and Wood-Hegner reside in Albuquerque and connected his public social-media profile with Revel, an entertainment organization in the city.

The change is significant because it shows how Trevor’s professional identity has evolved. His earliest publicly documented work was concentrated on independent film, where he participated in directing, writing, producing, cinematography and acting. His more recent work appears to involve production and the wider events and entertainment sector. However, the exact timeline between these stages is not fully documented in reliable public sources.

It is also important not to repeat unsupported claims about his current occupation as settled fact beyond what the sources actually establish. Some entertainment websites describe Trevor as an electrician or visual artist, while others attribute additional professional activities to him, but these claims are not consistently supported by high-quality primary or established news sources. For an E-E-A-T-focused biography, it is more responsible to distinguish documented information from claims that cannot be independently verified.

Career Highlights and Public Recognition

Trevor Mansur’s career highlights are modest in volume but unusually varied. His IMDb record identifies Felt as one of his best-known works and credits him across several filmmaking roles. That makes the short film the clearest example of his creative authorship. His work on X also connects him to music, while his appearance in All Kids Count demonstrates that he did experiment with acting.

His most unusual form of public recognition, however, may have come through his relationship with his father rather than through awards or major film releases. Trevor’s recommendation helped Josh Brolin reconsider the role in Oliver Stone’s W., according to ABC News. That story has remained one of the more distinctive publicly documented anecdotes about Trevor because it shows him engaging with his father’s work from an informed, personal perspective.

Trevor has not been widely associated with major awards, blockbuster productions or extensive mainstream acting credits. No reliable source located for this biography identifies a significant individual film award or major industry honor attributed to him. Consequently, describing him as an award-winning filmmaker or major Hollywood producer would not meet a factual standard.

His public recognition is instead closely tied to three areas: his position as Josh Brolin’s eldest son, his independent filmmaking credits and his continuing association with the entertainment industry. His 2026 engagement to Kristin Wood-Hegner has also increased recent media interest, particularly because Josh Brolin personally announced the news.

This relatively limited public profile is not evidence of a lack of professional activity. It simply means that Trevor’s work has not generated the volume of widely reported material associated with his father or sister. A careful biography should therefore focus on what can actually be verified rather than filling gaps with assumptions.

Why People Search for Trevor Mansur

Search interest in Trevor Mansur is largely driven by his connection to Josh Brolin’s son, his unusual family background and questions about what happened to the eldest Brolin child after his early filmmaking work. Because Josh Brolin has remained a prominent actor, audiences naturally want to know more about his children, particularly those who have pursued creative careers themselves. Trevor’s relatively private lifestyle makes those questions more difficult to answer than they are for celebrity family members with extensive interviews and social-media activity.

People also search for Trevor when researching the Brolin family tree. He is the grandson of actor James Brolin and therefore part of a multigenerational entertainment family. Through James Brolin’s marriage to Barbra Streisand, Trevor is also part of a family network that includes one of the most recognizable entertainers of the twentieth century. IMDb identifies James Brolin and Barbra Streisand among his family relationships.

Another common reason for searches is his filmography. People looking for Felt, X or All Kids Count may encounter Trevor’s name in the credits and then search for his biography. His varied roles in Felt are particularly relevant because they show that he was involved in the production beyond acting.

Recent searches are also likely to focus on Trevor’s engagement to Kristin Wood-Hegner. The announcement in April 2026 provided one of the clearest new public updates about his personal life in years. Because Trevor and his fiancée have kept their relationship relatively private, verified information remains limited to what they or reputable sources have publicly disclosed.

Privacy, Accuracy and Public Information

Trevor Mansur is a useful example of why celebrity-family biographies require careful sourcing. Although his father is an internationally recognized actor, Trevor himself has maintained a much lower public profile. Reliable sources can establish his birth information, parentage, sibling relationship, film credits and recent engagement, but they cannot provide a complete account of every aspect of his life.

For that reason, this biography does not present unverified claims about Trevor’s education, income, net worth, exact day-to-day employment, private family arrangements or future wedding plans as facts. Some websites publish estimates or biographical details that are repeated from one another without clear primary sourcing. Repetition alone does not make such information reliable, particularly when the person involved has chosen to maintain a private life.

The same principle applies to his current career. Public reporting supports describing Trevor as a production manager and connecting him with Albuquerque’s entertainment community, but there is not enough authoritative information to construct a detailed current résumé. Where the public record is incomplete, the most accurate approach is to say so rather than speculate.

The available evidence nevertheless provides a coherent picture. Trevor was born into the Brolin family, developed a documented interest in independent filmmaking, worked across several production roles, and later appears to have established a quieter professional life in New Mexico. His 2026 engagement has brought him back into the entertainment press without changing the fundamentally private nature of his public presence.

Conclusion

Trevor Mansur Brolin is more than simply Josh Brolin’s son, although that family relationship remains the main reason people discover his story. Born in Los Angeles in 1988 to Josh Brolin and Alice Adair, Trevor explored filmmaking through acting, directing, writing, producing, cinematography and music-related work, with Felt, X and All Kids Count forming the strongest documented part of his early entertainment résumé. His life has since become considerably less visible than those of his father and sister Eden Brolin, with recent reporting placing him in Albuquerque and identifying him professionally as a production manager. His engagement to Kristin Wood-Hegner, publicly announced by Josh Brolin in April 2026, marks the latest major development in his public story. What makes Trevor Mansur interesting is ultimately the balance between a famous family legacy and a comparatively private personal path: the available evidence shows a creative professional who has worked within entertainment while largely avoiding the level of celebrity associated with the Brolin name.