Kevin Zegers | |
---|---|
Born | Woodstock, Ontario, Canada | September 19, 1984
Occupations |
|
Years active | 1992–present |
Spouse | Jaime Feld (m. 2013) |
Children | 2 |
Kevin Zegers (born September 19, 1984) is a Canadian actor and model. He is known for his roles as Josh Framm in the Air Bud film series, Toby Osbourne in Transamerica (2005), Damien Dalgaard in the CW teen drama Gossip Girl , and as rookie FBI Agent Brendon Acres on the ABC crime drama The Rookie: Feds . He has also starred in the films Dawn of the Dead (2004), It's a Boy Girl Thing (2006), The Jane Austen Book Club (2007), Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008), Frozen (2010), The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones , and Nighthawks (2019).
Zegers was born in Woodstock, Ontario, [1] the son of Mary-Ellen (née Veldman), a teacher, and Jim Zegers, a quarry worker. [2] [3] [4] He has two sisters, Krista and Katie. (The latter is also an actress; she appeared with him in John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness .) [5] He is of Dutch descent; all four of his grandparents were born in the Netherlands. [6] He attended St Mary's Catholic High School in Woodstock.[ citation needed ]
Zegers is active in sports, especially basketball, ice hockey, and golf. [7] [8] He played on the Hollywood Knights celebrity basketball team, raising money for local Los Angeles schools. [9]
Zegers began his performing career at the age of six, appearing in about 30 TV commercials. [5] His first film role was at the age of seven, in a small part in the Michael J. Fox comedy Life with Mikey (1993), playing a younger version of Fox's character. [1] Subsequently, he made a guest appearance on the acclaimed science fiction series The X-Files , playing a stigmatic child, Kevin Kryder, in the 1995 episode "Revelations," and had a recurring role on the Canadian TV series Traders (1996). [10] [11] During this time, he appeared in several made-for-television films, including Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story , The Silence of Adultery, and Rose Hill , and as Noah Thompson in the "Let's Get Invisible!" episode of Goosebumps . [12]
His career received a major boost when he won the role of Josh Framm in Air Bud (1997), a film about a lonely boy who befriends a basketball-playing dog. Air Bud launched a franchise, with four sequels. Zegers appeared in four of the films, as well as a similar title, MVP: Most Valuable Primate (2000), which featured a hockey-playing chimp. [13]
Around that time, he starred in other family-friendly fare, including A Call To Remember (1997) with Joe Mantegna, [14] Nico the Unicorn (1998) with Elisha Cuthbert, Treasure Island (1999) with Jack Palance, and Time Share (2000) with Nastassja Kinski. [15] He also played a boy who discovers he is a clone in the TV series So Weird (1999). [16] While also headlining numerous family/animal films, between 1997 and 2004, Zegers had starring or costarring roles in many low-budget horror films, often Canadian, including Shadow Builder , Komodo (1999), Wrong Turn (2003), and Fear of the Dark and The Hollow (both 2004). [17]
In Four Days (1999), Zegers played a nameless boy devoted to his bank-robber father. He also appeared in the short-lived American television series Titans (2000), opposite Yasmine Bleeth, for which he was chosen by producer Aaron Spelling. It was his first regular television series role. Zegers had previously worked with Bleeth in the 1999 film It Came from the Sky , where he played a mentally disabled child visited by an angel-like couple. [18] He co-starred with Harry Hamlin in Sex, Lies & Obsession (2001), a Lifetime Network film about sex addiction, and with Gena Rowlands and James Caan in The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie (2003), a television film drama that won three Daytime Emmy awards: Outstanding Children/Youth/Family Special, Outstanding Performer (Rowlands), and Outstanding Writing. [19]
In the summer of 2003, he filmed the drama Some Things That Stay at the same time as the remake of Dawn of the Dead , shuttling across Canada between sets. Around this time, he also continued his television work, appearing on Smallville in 2003 and House in 2004.
In 2005, he had a major role in the Academy Award-nominated independent film Transamerica , co-starring Felicity Huffman. Zegers' performance as Toby Osbourne, the street-hustling bisexual son of a trans woman (Huffman) was praised by several critics, and he won the Trophée Chopard for Male Revelation at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. [20] Director Duncan Tucker said he had to overcome his initial wariness over Zegers' good looks before casting him for the role. [21] Variety's reviewer wrote that "Zegers... finds multiple dimensions in pic's potentially most clichéd character...," [22] and The Hollywood Reporter's critic said, "As a boy who considers sex his chief talent, Zegers... conveys Toby's essential sweetness and hunger for real affection, making him much more than just a vain or damaged kid." [23]
Also in 2005, he appeared with Shailene Woodley in Felicity: An American Girl Adventure , a television film set in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1775, based on the American Girl book series. [24] He played 15-year-old Benjamin "Ben" Davidson, an apprentice at a shop owned by Felicity's father. [25] In 2006, Zegers played supervillain Concussion in the comedy Zoom , with Tim Allen, and had the lead role opposite Samaire Armstrong in the romantic comedy It's a Boy Girl Thing . [26] He guest-starred as Damien Dalgaard in Gossip Girl from 2009 until 2010, and returned again in late 2010 for multiple episodes throughout season 4. He appeared in Rock Mafia's 2010 music video "The Big Bang", and in 2012, played the male protagonist in the television series Titanic: Blood and Steel . [27] [28] [29]
Zegers portrayed Alec Lightwood in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013). [30] He joined the cast of Fear the Walking Dead for the series' fourth season. [31]
In August 2013, Zegers married Jaime Feld, a talent agent. [32] The couple had twin girls in August 2015.
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1993 | Life with Mikey | Little Mikey Chapman | |
1994 | In the Mouth of Madness | Kid | Appeared with his real-life sister Katie |
1996 | Specimen | Bart | |
1997 | Air Bud | Josh Framm | |
1998 | Shadow Builder | Chris Hatcher | |
Air Bud: Golden Receiver | Josh Framm | ||
Nico the Unicorn | Billy Hastings | ||
1999 | Treasure Island | Jim Hawkins | |
Four Days | Simon | ||
Komodo | Patrick Connally | ||
2000 | The Acting Class | Lou Carpman | |
Air Bud: World Pup | Josh Framm | ||
MVP: Most Valuable Primate | Steven Westover | ||
2002 | Virginia's Run | Darrow Raines | |
Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch | Josh Framm | ||
2003 | Wrong Turn | Evan | |
Fear of the Dark | Dale Billings | ||
The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie | Charlie Proud | ||
2004 | Dawn of the Dead | Terry | |
The Hollow | Ian Cranston | ||
Some Things That Stay | Rusty Murphy | ||
2005 | Transamerica | Toby Wilkins | |
2006 | Zoom | Connor Shepard / Concussion | |
It's a Boy Girl Thing | Woody Deane/Nell Bedworth | ||
2007 | The Jane Austen Book Club | Trey | |
Normal | Jordie | ||
The Stone Angel | John Shipley | ||
2008 | Gardens of the Night | Frank | |
The Narrows | Mike Manadoro | ||
Fifty Dead Men Walking | Sean | ||
2009 | The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll | Spyder | |
2010 | Frozen | Dan Walker | |
2011 | Vampire | Simon | |
Girl Walks into a Bar | Billy | ||
The Entitled | Paul Dynan | ||
2013 | The Colony | Sam | |
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones | Alec Lightwood | ||
All the Wrong Reasons | Simon Brunson | ||
2015 | The Curse of Downers Grove | Chuck | |
2017 | Aftermath | John Gullick | |
2019 | Nighthawks | Chad | |
2022 | Corrective Measures | Captain Jason Brody |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1992 | Street Legal | Jeremy Morris | Episode: "It's a Wise Child" |
1993 & 1996 | Tales from the Cryptkeeper | 6X (voice)/Jermey (voice) | Episodes: "Grounds for Horror" & ""Uncle Harry's Horrible House of Horrors" |
1995–1996 | The Magic School Bus | Mikey Ramon | Voice role, 2 episodes |
1994 | Free Willy | Einstein (voice) | Episode: "Cry of the Dolphin" |
Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story | Larry McLinden in 1954 | Television film | |
1995 | Road to Avonlea | Gordon Bradley | Episode: "A Time to Every Purpose" |
The X-Files | Kevin Kryder | Episode: "Revelations" | |
The Silence of Adultery | Steven Harlett | Television film | |
1996 | Goosebumps | Noah Thompson | Episode: "Let's Get Invisible!" |
The Cold Heart of a Killer | Matthew Arnold | Television film | |
1996–1997 | Traders | Sean Blake | Recurring role (seasons 2 & 3), 7 episodes |
1997 | Rose Hill | Cole Clayborne at 13 | Television film |
A Call to Remember | Ben Tobias | ||
1999 | Twice in a Lifetime | Young Flash Jericho | Episode: "Blood Brothers" |
So Weird | Ryan Ollman | Episode: "Second Generation" | |
It Came from the Sky | Andy Bridges | Television film | |
2000 | Time Share | Thomas Weiland | Television film |
2000–2001 | Titans | Ethan Benchley | Main role |
2001 | Sex, Lies & Obsession | Josh Thomas | Television film |
2003 | Smallville | Seth Nelson | Episode: "Magnetic" |
2004 | House | Brandon Merrell | Episode: "Occam's Razor" |
2005 | Felicity: An American Girl Adventure | Benjamin "Ben" Davidson | Television film |
2009–2011 | Gossip Girl | Damien Dalgaard | Recurring role (seasons 3–4), 10 episodes |
2012 | Titanic: Blood and Steel | Mark Muir | Main role |
2014 | Gracepoint | Owen Burke | |
2016 | Notorious | Oscar Keaton | |
2018 | Dirty John | Toby Sellers | Recurring role |
Fear the Walking Dead | Melvin | Recurring role (season 4) [31] | |
2019 | Hell's Kitchen | Himself | Represented St. Jude Children's Research Hospital at a private dinner service; episode: "Poor Trev" |
What Just Happened??! with Fred Savage | Episode: "Flaremenon" | ||
2021 | Rebel [33] | Nate [34] | Main role |
2022–2023 | The Rookie: Feds | Brendon Acres | Main role |
Year | Title | Artist |
---|---|---|
2010 | "The Big Bang" | Rock Mafia |
Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
1998 | Young Artist Award | Best Performance in a Feature Film: Leading Young Actor | Air Bud | Won |
Best Performance in a TV Movie/Pilot/Mini-Series: Supporting Young Actor | A Call to Remember | Nominated | ||
Best Performance in a TV Movie or Feature Film: Young Ensemble | Rose Hill | |||
YoungStar Award | Best Young Actor in a Comedy Film | Air Bud | ||
1999 | Young Artist Award | Best Performance in a Feature Film: Leading Young Actor | Air Bud: Golden Receiver | |
2001 | Young Artist Award | MVP: Most Valuable Primate | ||
2006 | Cannes Film Festival | Trophée Chopard – Male Revelation | Transamerica | Won [35] |
Bernard Hill is an English actor. He is known for playing Théoden, King of Rohan, in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Captain Edward Smith in Titanic, and Luther Plunkitt, the Warden of San Quentin Prison in the Clint Eastwood film True Crime. Hill was also known for playing roles in television dramas, including Yosser Hughes, the troubled "hard man" whose life is falling apart in Alan Bleasdale's Boys from the Blackstuff in the 1980s, and more recently, as the Duke of Norfolk in the BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall.
Adam Jared Brody is an American actor. His breakout role was as Seth Cohen on the Fox television series The O.C. (2003–2007). He has appeared in films including Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Thank You for Smoking (2005), In the Land of Women (2007), and Jennifer's Body (2009).
Keri Lynn Russell is an American actress. She played the title role in the drama series Felicity (1998–2002), which won her a Golden Globe Award, and later portrayed Elizabeth Jennings in the spy thriller series The Americans (2013–2018), which earned her nominations for several Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe Awards. For playing the lead role in the political drama series The Diplomat (2023), she received further Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.
Thomas Brodie-Sangster is an English actor. He is known for playing Sam in Love Actually (2003), Simon in Nanny McPhee (2005), Ferb in Phineas and Ferb (2007–2015), Jojen Reed in Game of Thrones (2013–2014), Newt in the Maze Runner film series (2014–2018), and Benny Watts in the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit (2020), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
Felicity Kendall Huffman is an American actress. Over her career she has received numerous accolades including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award as well as a nomination for an Academy Award. She is best known for her role as Lynette Scavo in the ABC comedy-drama Desperate Housewives and her role as a transgender woman in the film Transamerica (2005).
Air Bud is a 1997 sports comedy film directed by Charles Martin Smith. An international co-production of the United States and Canada, the film stars Kevin Zegers as a young boy who befriends a runaway Golden Retriever with a unique ability to play basketball.
Kyra Minturn Sedgwick is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her starring role as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on the crime drama The Closer (2005–2012), for which she won a Golden Globe in 2007 and an Emmy Award in 2010. She also starred in the 1992 TV film Miss Rose White, which won an Emmy Award. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in the 1995 film Something to Talk About. Sedgwick's other film credits include Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Cameron Crowe's Singles (1992). She also had a recurring role as Madeline Wuntch on the sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Sedgwick is married to fellow actor Kevin Bacon.
Jeremy Merton Sisto is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Billy Chenowith in HBO's Six Feet Under, NYPD Detective Cyrus Lupo in NBC's Law & Order, George Altman in the ABC sitcom Suburgatory, for which he was nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series, and Jubal Valentine in the CBS drama series FBI. He has appeared in such films as Clueless (1995), Suicide Kings (1997), Jesus (1999), Thirteen (2003), and Waitress (2007).
Robert Scott Speedman is a Canadian actor. He is known for portraying Ben Covington in the coming-of-age drama television series Felicity, Lycan–Vampire hybrid Michael Corvin in the gothic horror–action Underworld films, and Barry "Baz" Blackwell in the TNT crime drama series Animal Kingdom. His other film work includes Duets, Dark Blue, XXX: State of the Union, The Strangers, Barney's Version, The Vow, and Crimes of the Future. In 2021, he returned to Grey's Anatomy as a main character following a guest role in season 14 as Dr. Nick Marsh.
Toby Edward Heslewood Jones is an English actor. He is known for his extensive character actor roles on stage and screen. From 1989 to 1991, Jones trained at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq. He made his stage debut in 2001 in the comedy play The Play What I Wrote, which played in the West End and on Broadway, earning him a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In 2020, he was nominated for his second Olivier Award, for Best Actor for his performance in a revival of Anton Chekov's Uncle Vanya.
Transamerica is a 2005 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Duncan Tucker, and starring Felicity Huffman and Kevin Zegers. Released by IFC Films and The Weinstein Company, the film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 14, 2005, and to theaters in the United States on December 2, 2005.
Kim Dickens is an American actress. Her film debut was in the 1995 comedy film Palookaville. Dickens played lead roles in the films Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997), Zero Effect (1998) and Mercury Rising (1998). Her other films include Great Expectations (1998), Hollow Man (2000), House of Sand and Fog (2003), Thank You for Smoking (2005), The Blind Side (2009), Gone Girl (2014), Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016), Lizzie (2018), Land (2021), and The Good Nurse (2022).
Carrie Preston is an American actress, director, and producer. She is best known for her roles as Arlene Fowler in the HBO fantasy drama series True Blood (2008–2014) and as Elsbeth Tascioni in the CBS legal drama series The Good Wife (2010–2016), the Paramount+ legal drama series The Good Fight (2017–2022), and CBS crime drama series Elsbeth (2024–present). For her work on The Good Wife, Preston received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.
Felicity Rose Hadley Jones is an English actress. She started her professional acting career as a child, appearing in The Treasure Seekers (1996) at age 12. She went on to play Ethel Hallow for one series of the television series The Worst Witch and its sequel Weirdsister College. On radio, she has played the role of Emma Grundy in the BBC's The Archers. In 2008, she appeared in the Donmar Warehouse production of The Chalk Garden.
Zachary Michael Gilford is an American actor, best known for his role as Matt Saracen on the NBC sports drama series Friday Night Lights. In 2021, he starred in the Netflix horror limited series Midnight Mass. In 2022, he appeared in the horror mystery-thriller series The Midnight Club, and in 2023, he had a main role in the horror drama miniseries The Fall of the House of Usher.
Anastasia Phillips is a Canadian actress. She appeared in films Don't Talk to Irene (2017), Ghostland (2018) and Tammy's Always Dying (2019), and the TV series Bomb Girls and Reign. In 2021, she began starring in the CBC drama series, Moonshine.
Danny Burstein is an American actor and singer. Known for his work on the Broadway stage, he's received numerous accolades including a Tony Award, two Drama Desk Awards and nominations for three Grammy Awards.
Stella Maeve Johnston is an American film and television actress. Highlights include a starring role in The Runaways (2010), a two-season recurring role in NBC television's Chicago P.D., and a main role in SyFy television's The Magicians.
Sam Christian Palladio Scott is an English actor and musician. He is best known for his starring role as Gunnar Scott in the ABC musical drama series Nashville (2012–18). Palladio has also had recurring roles on the comedy series Episodes (2012–15) and the science fiction series Humans (2015–2018). His feature film credits include 7 Lives (2011), Runner, Runner (2013), Strange Magic (2015), The Princess Switch (2018), The Princess Switch: Switched Again (2020) and The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star (2021).
Austin Noah Abrams is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Ron Anderson in the fifth and sixth seasons of the television series The Walking Dead (2015–2016), as Ethan Daley in Euphoria and as Dash in Dash & Lily (2020). He has also appeared in films such as The Kings of Summer (2013), Paper Towns (2015), Brad's Status (2017), Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) and Chemical Hearts (2020).
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link){{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link){{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)