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Jeremy Sumpter
Born	Jeremy Robert Myron Sumpter February 5, 1989 (1989-02-05) (age 20) 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 lead role in the 2003 film version of Peter Pan.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 2 Filmography 3 Awards 4 External links

Biography

Early life

Jeremy Sumpter was born in Monterey, California the son of Sandra (née Johnson) and Gary Sumpter. His siblings, twin sister, Jessica, and younger sister, Gigi, are also actresses. He also has a brother named Travis who is in college. He was raised in the small 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

In July 2002, Sumpter, then thirteen years old, was selected for the role of Peter Pan, a role traditionally played by women on stage, and 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.^{citation needed} They had to make the window bigger because he kept hitting his head and they had to keep making his leaf outfit bigger. 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}

Sumpter spent the summer of 2005 in Oregon filming the comedy The Sasquatch Gang, which was theatrically released in November, 2006. He also appears in the independent film An American Crime, where he portrays Coy Hubbard. He also appeared in an episode of CSI Miami as the boyfriend of a girl whose parents are murdered. He has completed filming Calvin Marshall in which he plays the part of Caselli.^{citation needed} He recently completed You're So Cupid, and will next be in the independent film Death And Cremation.

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

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010	You're So Cupid	Connor Miller
2008	Friday Night Lights	J.D. McCoy
2008	Calvin Marshall	Caselli (post-production)
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 (TV series)	Pete Young
2003	Peter Pan	Peter Pan
2002	Local Boys	Skeeter Dobson
2002	Frailty	Young Adam
2001	Just A Dream	Henry Sturbuck

Awards

• 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
• Peter Pan grows up! - Ananova - December 4, 2003
• YOBI.tv