American actor
Jeremy Robert Myron Sumpter ( behave February 5, 1989 ) is an american actor. His big roles include the title function in the 2003 live action film Peter Pan, Jacob in the 2014 calamity movie Into the Storm, and the recurring role of J. D. McCoy in the NBC television receiver series Friday Night Lights ( 2008–2010 ) .

early life [edit ]

pack animal was born in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, to Sandy ( née Johnson ) and Gary Sumpter. [ 1 ] He has a twin sister, Jessica, and two other siblings, Travis and Jennifer. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] His family moved to his mother ‘s hometown, Mount Sterling, Kentucky, when he was ten months old. [ 1 ] [ 3 ]

career [edit ]

When Sumpter was 11, he entered International Modeling and Talent Association [ 4 ] and started his model in Kentucky. He besides won Pre-Teen Male Model of the Year, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] where he signed with Mark Robert as his personal director. [ 5 ] Sumpter then decided to move to Los Angeles, California with his class and start acting afterwards. [ 2 ] [ 5 ]

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Sumpter ‘s first movie function was in the 2001 film Frailty as the young Adam Mieks seen in flashbacks. Sumpter received a Saturn Award nominating speech for “ Best performance by a Younger actor ” for his performance. Following that, he appeared with Danny Glover in the Showtime film Just a Dream, for which he received a Young Artist Award for “ Best performance in a television receiver Movie, Mini-Series or Special – Leading Young Actor ”. His adjacent film was Local Boys, a family surfing play, with Mark Harmon and Eric Christian Olsen. In July 2002, at senesce 13, Sumpter was selected for the role of Peter Pan. Sumpter did about all of his stunts for the film himself. To prepare, he says he practiced sword crusade angstrom a lot as five hours a day, a well as educate in gymnastics and lifting weights. He was working with actress Rachel Hurd-Wood and built a solid kinship with her. While filming in Australia, he supplemented his trail with cricket and surfing. Sumpter grew respective inches while in the film ‘s production, requiring staging tricks to retain Captain Hook ‘s stature advantage over Peter in face-to-face scenes belated in the procedure. Producer Lucy Fisher besides said that, “ The window he flies out of had to be enlarged twice. ” [ 6 ] Despite the film ’ south box position failure, Sumpter has won both a Saturn and Young Artist Award for the film. [ 7 ] In the fall of 2004, he starred in the television receiver series Clubhouse as a boy who gets his dream job of working as a batboy for a New York City major league baseball team. The series was canceled by CBS after five episodes ; all 11 episodes made have since been broadcast on cable/satellite channels. He then starred in Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life, a Lifetime Channel movie about a popular adolescent whose liveliness is ruined by an addiction to internet pornography. Sumpter spent the summer of 2005 in Oregon filming the adolescent drollery The Sasquatch Gang ( a.k.a. The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang ), released in November 2006. He had a small character in the film An American Crime, which played on Showtime in 2008 before going to DVD. He appeared in an episode of CSI: Miami as the boyfriend of a girlfriend whose parents are murdered .
Jeremy Sumpter in 2011 . Jeremy Sumpter in 2013.

He completed filming roles in the coming-of-age comedy Calvin Marshall, the class drollery You’re So Cupid, Soul Surfer and Death and Cremation. Sumpter was a co-host on The YOBI Show, an on-line reality contest show, with Danielle Ryan. He appeared in the meteorologic disaster film Into the Storm as Jacob Hodges, a young cameraman for the stormchasers .

personal biography [edit ]

In December 2015, Sumpter announced that he and Lauren Pacheco were engaged to be married, [ 8 ] but in October 2016 stated that they were no retentive engaged. [ 9 ]

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