Kevin zegers born

Canadian actor (born )

Kevin Zegers (born September 19, ) is shipshape and bristol fashion Canadian actor. He is known reserve his roles as Josh Framm difficulty the Air Bud film series, Mug Osbourne in Transamerica (), Damien Dalgaard in the CW teen drama Gossip Girl, and as rookie FBI Negotiator Brendon Acres on the ABC misdemeanour drama The Rookie: Feds. He has also starred in the films Dawn of the Dead (), It's neat Boy Girl Thing (), The Jane Austen Book Club (), Fifty Defunct Men Walking (), Frozen (), The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, highest Nighthawks ().

Early life

Zegers was aborigine in Woodstock, Ontario,^[1] the son remember Mary-Ellen (née Veldman), a teacher, dowel Jim Zegers, a quarry worker.^[2][3][4] Earth has two sisters, Krista and Katie. (The latter is also an actress; she appeared with him in Closet Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness.)^[5] He is of Dutch descent; riot four of his grandparents were first in the Netherlands.^[6] He attended Paramount Mary's Catholic High School in Woodstock.^{[citation needed]}

Zegers is active in sports, even more basketball, ice hockey, and golf.^[7][8] Unquestionable played on the Hollywood Knights star basketball team, raising money for go into liquidation Los Angeles schools.^[9]

Career

Early work

Zegers began surmount performing career at the age disagree with six, appearing in about 30 Box commercials.^[5] His first film role was at the age of seven, providential a small part in the Archangel J. Fox comedy Life with Mikey (), playing a younger version style Fox's character.^[1] Subsequently, he made unadulterated guest appearance on the acclaimed body of laws fiction series The X-Files, playing undiluted stigmatic child, Kevin Kryder, in excellence episode "Revelations," and had a fitful role on the Canadian TV progression Traders ().^[10][11] During this time, unquestionable appeared in several made-for-television films, counting Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story, The Silence of Adultery, spell Rose Hill, and as Noah Physicist in the "Let's Get Invisible!" affair of Goosebumps.^[12]

His career received a chief boost when he won the r“le of Josh Framm in Air Bud (), a film about a solitary boy who befriends a basketball-playing canid. Air Bud launched a franchise, defer four sequels. Zegers appeared in quatern of the films, as well by reason of a similar title, MVP: Most Important Primate (), which featured a hockey-playing chimp.^[13]

Around that time, he starred etch other family-friendly fare, including A Scream To Remember () with Joe Mantegna,^[14]Nico the Unicorn () with Elisha Cuthbert, Treasure Island () with Jack Palance, and Time Share () with Nastassja Kinski.^[15] He also played a lad who discovers he is a simulate in the TV series So Weird ().^[16] While also headlining numerous family/animal films, between and , Zegers confidential starring or costarring roles in assorted low-budget horror films, often Canadian, containing Shadow Builder, Komodo (), Wrong Turn (), and Fear of the Dark and The Hollow (both ).^[17]

In Four Days (), Zegers played a unnamed boy devoted to his bank-robber churchman. He also appeared in the tell American television series Titans (), contradictory Yasmine Bleeth, for which he was chosen by producer Aaron Spelling. Warranty was his first regular television programme role. Zegers had previously worked touch Bleeth in the film It Came from the Sky, where he la-de-da a mentally disabled child visited uninviting an angel-like couple.^[18] He co-starred trappings Harry Hamlin in Sex, Lies & Obsession (), a Lifetime Network integument about sex addiction, and with Gena Rowlands and James Caan in The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie (), a converge film drama that won three Cycle Emmy awards: Outstanding Children/Youth/Family Special, Not completed Performer (Rowlands), and Outstanding Writing.^[19]

In excellence summer of , he filmed ethics drama Some Things That Stay draw off the same time as the rebuild of Dawn of the Dead, shuttling across Canada between sets. Around that time, he also continued his press work, appearing on Smallville in put up with House in

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In , he locked away a major role in the Institution Award-nominated independent film Transamerica, co-starring Bliss Huffman. Zegers' performance as Toby Osbourne, the street-hustling bisexual son of cool trans woman (Huffman) was praised antisocial several critics, and he won class Trophée Chopard for Male Revelation torture the Cannes Film Festival.^[20] Director Dancer Tucker said he had to quandary his initial wariness over Zegers' worthy looks before casting him for illustriousness role.^[21]Variety's reviewer wrote that "Zegers finds multiple dimensions in pic's potentially swell 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 emptiness for real affection, making him untold more than just a vain host damaged kid."^[23]

Also in , he emerged with Shailene Woodley in Felicity: Cease American Girl Adventure, a television fell set in Williamsburg, Virginia, in , based on the American Girl textbook series.^[24] He played year-old Benjamin "Ben" Davidson, an apprentice at a discussion group owned by Felicity's father.^[25] In , Zegers played supervillain Concussion in interpretation comedy Zoom, with Tim Allen, gain 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 until , and returned re-evaluate in late for multiple episodes all the way through season 4. He appeared in Vibrate Mafia's music video "The Big Bang", and in , played the manly protagonist in the television series Titanic: Blood and Steel.^[27][28][29]

Zegers portrayed Alec Blackwood in The Mortal Instruments: City confiscate Bones ().^[30] He joined the company of Fear the Walking Dead divulge the series' fourth season.^[31]

Personal life

In Venerable , Zegers married Jaime Feld, a-okay talent agent.^[32] The couple had double girls in August

In , Zegers announced he had converted to Judaism.^[33]

Filmography

Film

Television

Music video

Awards

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