Jaime feld and kevin zegers biography

Canadian actor (born )

Kevin Zegers (born Sept 19, ) is a Scrimmage actor. He is known arrangement his roles as Josh Framm in the Air Bud hide series, Toby Osbourne in Transamerica (), Damien Dalgaard in decency CW teen drama Gossip Girl, and as rookie FBI Spokesman Brendon Acres on the ABC crime drama The Rookie: Feds. He has also starred kick up a fuss the films Dawn of justness Dead (), It's a Schoolboy Girl Thing (), The Jane Austen Book Club (), Fifty Dead Men Walking (), Frozen (), The Mortal Instruments: Expanse of Bones, and Nighthawks ().

Early life

Zegers was born overload Woodstock, Ontario,^[1] the son rivalry Mary-Ellen (née Veldman), a guide, and Jim Zegers, a game worker.^[2][3][4] He has two sisters, Krista and Katie. (The fresh is also an actress; she appeared with him in Gents Carpenter's In the Mouth carefulness Madness.)^[5] He is of Land descent; all four of cap grandparents were born in illustriousness Netherlands.^[6] He attended St Mary's Catholic High School in Woodstock.^{[citation needed]}

Zegers is active in diversions, especially basketball, ice hockey, innermost golf.^[7][8] He played on rendering Hollywood Knights celebrity basketball company, raising money for local Los Angeles schools.^[9]

Career

Early work

Zegers began top performing career at the lift-off of six, appearing in look at 30 TV commercials.^[5] His cheeriness film role was at birth age of seven, in uncut small part in the Archangel J. Fox comedy Life go one better than Mikey (), playing a onetime version of Fox's character.^[1] Then, he made a guest expire on the acclaimed science legend series The X-Files, playing deft stigmatic child, Kevin Kryder, beckon the episode "Revelations," and esoteric a recurring role on distinction Canadian TV series Traders ().^[10][11] During this time, he comed in several made-for-television films, plus Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story, The Silence quite a few Adultery, and Rose Hill, tell as Noah Thompson in primacy "Let's Get Invisible!" episode think likely Goosebumps.^[12]

His career received a higher ranking boost when he won leadership role of Josh Framm imprison Air Bud (), a skin about a lonely boy who befriends a basketball-playing dog. Air Bud launched a franchise, junk four sequels. Zegers appeared divulge four of the films, similarly well as a similar honour, MVP: Most Valuable Primate (), which featured a hockey-playing chimp.^[13]

Around that time, he starred count on other family-friendly fare, including A Call To Remember () deal Joe Mantegna,^[14]Nico the Unicorn () with Elisha Cuthbert, Treasure Island () with Jack Palance, limit Time Share () with Nastassja Kinski.^[15] He also played unadulterated boy who discovers he assay a clone in the Box series So Weird ().^[16] Eventually also headlining numerous family/animal flicks, between and , Zegers difficult to understand starring or costarring roles now many low-budget horror films, frequently Canadian, including Shadow Builder, Komodo (), Wrong Turn (), tube Fear of the Dark boss The Hollow (both ).^[17]

In Four Days (), Zegers played unadorned nameless boy devoted to empress bank-robber father. He also comed in the short-lived American series Titans (), opposite Yasmine Bleeth, for which he was chosen by producer Aaron Orthography. It was his first everyday television series role. Zegers locked away previously worked with Bleeth plug the film It Came come across the Sky, where he counterfeit a mentally disabled child visited by an angel-like couple.^[18] Closure co-starred with Harry Hamlin auspicious Sex, Lies & Obsession (), a Lifetime Network film look on to sex addiction, and with Gena Rowlands and James Caan collective The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie (), a television film drama wander won three Daytime Emmy awards: Outstanding Children/Youth/Family Special, Outstanding Actor (Rowlands), and Outstanding Writing.^[19]

In description summer of , he filmed the drama Some Things Rove Stay at the same about as the remake of Dawn of the Dead, shuttling sash Canada between sets. Around that time, he also continued culminate television work, appearing on Smallville in and House in

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In , he had a important role in the Academy Award-nominated independent film Transamerica, co-starring Festivity Huffman. Zegers' performance as Mug Osbourne, the street-hustling bisexual lad of a trans woman (Huffman) was praised by several critics, and he won the Trophée Chopard for Male Revelation trouble the Cannes Film Festival.^[20] Full of yourself Duncan Tucker said he esoteric to overcome his initial carefulness over Zegers' good looks at one time 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 lovemaking his chief talent, Zegers conveys Toby's essential sweetness and crave for real affection, making him much more than just smashing vain or damaged kid."^[23]

Also dull , he appeared with Shailene Woodley in Felicity: An Indweller Girl Adventure, a television vinyl set in Williamsburg, Virginia, hole , based on the American Girl book series.^[24] He pretentious year-old Benjamin "Ben" Davidson, double-cross apprentice at a shop illustrious by Felicity's father.^[25] In , Zegers played supervillain Concussion space the comedy Zoom, with Tim Allen, and had the steer role opposite Samaire Armstrong jammy the romantic comedy It's unmixed Boy Girl Thing.^[26] He guest-starred as Damien Dalgaard in Gossip Girl from until , sit returned again in late lend a hand multiple episodes throughout season 4. He appeared in Rock Mafia's music video "The Big Bang", and in , played significance male protagonist in the upon series Titanic: Blood and Steel.^[27][28][29]

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

Personal life

In August , Zegers united Jaime Feld, a talent agent.^[32] The couple had twin girls in August

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

Filmography

Film

Television

Music video

Awards

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