American actor

Jaeden Martell ( né Lieberher ; born January 4, 2003 ) is an american english actor. [ 1 ] He played the function of Bill Denbrough in the 2017 film adaptation of Stephen King ‘s novel It and reprised the function in the film ‘s 2019 sequel. He besides appeared in the mystery film Knives Out ( 2019 ) and starred in the miniseries Defending Jacob ( 2020 ) .

early animation [edit ]

Martell was born on January 4, 2003, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, [ 2 ] the son of Wes Lieberher, a Los Angeles–based executive chef, and Angela Teresa Martell. [ 3 ] His enate grandma, Chisun Martell, is Korean. [ 3 ] He lived in South Philadelphia until the senesce of eight, when he moved to Los Angeles. [ 4 ]

career [edit ]

In the first base six years of his career, Martell was credited about entirely under his family name, Lieberher. In 2019, he switched to his mother ‘s maiden over name, Martell. [ 1 ] Martell ‘s first dissemble character was in a commercial for Hot Wheels. He appeared in several early commercials after that, including Google, Moneysupermarket.com, Liberty Mutual, Hyundai ( for the 2013 Super Bowl ), Verizon Fios and General Electric. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] His first major feature of speech movie character was in 2014 ‘s St. Vincent, where he starred aboard Bill Murray. Murray by and by recommended Martell to Cameron Crowe for the conductor ‘s 2015 film Aloha. [ 4 ] He played the entitle character in the 2017 film The Book of Henry. [ 4 ] Martell received promote recognition for his starring function as Bill Denbrough in the 2017 supernatural horror film It and its 2019 follow-up It Chapter Two. [ 7 ] In 2019, Martell was besides a part of Rian Johnson ‘s ensemble hurl in the murder-mystery film Knives Out. [ 7 ] In March 2019, now credited as Martell, he joined the roll of the Apple miniseries Defending Jacob, based on the William Landay novel of the same name. [ 8 ] On April 30, 2020, in an Instagram Live consultation with Teen Vogue, Martell confirmed that he had joined the draw of Tunnels in the function of Grayson Mitchell, the younger sibling of a victim of accelerator violence. The film does not have a set up or confirmed free date. [ 9 ]

In September 2021, Martell portrayed Morty Smith in a series of promotional interstitials for the bipartite fifth season finale of Rick and Morty. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In October 2021, he was cast as Craig in the Netflix film Mr. Harrigan’s Phone written and directed by John Lee Hancock, based on the If It Bleeds novellas by Stephen King. [ 12 ]

Filmography [edit ]

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television [edit ]

Television
Year Title Role Notes
2015 American Dad! Additional voices Episode: “My Affair Lady”
2015–2016 Masters of Sex Johnny Masters Recurring role (seasons 3–4)
2020 Defending Jacob Jacob Barber Main role
2021 Calls Justin Episode: “Mom”

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