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Jeremy Sumpter
Born	Jeremy Robert Myron Sumpter February 5, 1989 (1989-02-05) (age 21) Monterey, California, U.S.A.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2001 — present
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Jeremy Robert Myron Sumpter (born February 5, 1989) is an American actor. He is known for playing the title role in the 2003 live-action film Peter Pan and the recurring role of J. D. McCoy in the NBC series Friday Night Lights since 2008.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Filmography 4 Awards 5 External links

Early life

Sumpter was born in Monterey, California, the son of Sandra (née Johnson) and Gary Sumpter. His twin sister Jessica and younger sister Gigi are also actors. His brother Travis is in college. He lived in the town of Mount Sterling, Kentucky until he was eleven. He won IMTA's Pre-Teen Male Model of the Year award in 2000. Soon afterward, he signed with Mark Robert Management and his family moved to Los Angeles, where he currently resides.^{citation needed}

Career

His first movie role was in the 2001 film Frailty as the young Adam Mieks seen in flashbacks (played as an adult by the film's star Matthew McConaughey), for which he was nominated for a Saturn Award for "Best Performance by a Younger Actor". 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 TV Movie, Mini-Series or Special - Leading Young Actor". His next film was Local Boys a family/surfing drama, with Mark Harmon and Eric Christian Olsen.

In July 2002, when he was thirteen years old, Sumpter was selected for the role of Peter Pan, a role traditionally played on stage by women; it was the first time a boy played the role in a live-action feature film. During filming he grew eight inches, requiring some filming and staging tricks to conceal his height in scenes filmed late in production. For example, the window through which he entered the Darling nursery had to be enlarged more than once, and his costume required alteration to continue fitting him. Sumpter did nearly all of his stunts for the film himself. To prepare, he says he practiced sword fighting as much as five hours a day, as well as training in gymnastics and lifting weights. While filming in Australia, he supplemented his training with cricket and surfing.^{citation needed} He won both a Saturn and Young Artist Award for the film.

In the fall of 2004 he starred in the TV series Clubhouse, as a boy who gets his dream job of working at a batboy for a fictional 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 teenager whose life is ruined by an addiction to pornography on the internet.

He spent the summer of 2005 in Oregon filming the teen comedy The Sasquatch Gang (aka The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang), released in November 2006. He had a small role 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 girl whose parents are murdered.

He completed filming in 2007 of a supporting role in the 2010 coming-of-age comedy Calvin Marshall. Other upcoming films include You're So Cupid, Death And Cremation, and Prep School.

Sumpter has been co-hosting the YOBI show on the online reality contest network at http://www.yobi.tv with host Danielle Ryan.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010	Prep School	Simon
2010	You're So Cupid	Connor Miller
2010	Death and Cremation	Jarod Leary
2010	Calvin Marshall	Caselli
2008–present	Friday Night Lights	J.D. McCoy
2007	An American Crime	Coy Hubbard
2007	CSI: Miami	Zach Griffith (in Broken Home)
2006	The Sasquatch Gang	Gavin Gore
2005	Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life	Justin Petersen
2004	Clubhouse	Pete Young
2003	Peter Pan	Peter Pan
2002	Local Boys	Skeeter Dobson
2002	Just A Dream	Henry Sturbuck
2002	Frailty	Young Adam

Awards

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• Youth for Humanity Award, Male (2009)
• Young Artist Awards (nomination) 2006 Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries or Special (Comedy or Drama) - Leading Young Actor for: Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life (2005) (TV)
• Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards (nomination) 2004 Best Performance by a Youth in a Lead or Supporting Role - Male for: Peter Pan (2003)
• Saturn Award (winner) 2004 Best Performance by a Younger Actor for Peter Pan.
• Young Artist Award (winner) 2004 Best Performance by a Younger Actor for Peter Pan.
• Saturn Award (nomination) 2003 Best Performance by a Younger Actor for Frailty.
• Young Artist Award (winner) 2002 Best Performance in a TV Movie, Mini-Series or Special - Leading Young Actor for Just A Dream.

External links

• Official Site
• Jeremy Sumpter at the Internet Movie Database
• Jeremy Sumpter at MySpace