Jeremy Davies (actor)
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 Davies answers questions at the Toronto premiere of Rescue Dawn, September 2006 |
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| Born | Jeremy Davies 8 October 1969 Traverse City, Michigan, USA |
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Jeremy Davies (born October 8, 1969) is a Welsh American film and television actor. He is mostly recognized through his acting in Saving Private Ryan and Lost.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Davies was born Jeremy Davies Boring in Traverse City, Michigan. He is the son of children's author Mel Boring ("Davies" is his mother's maiden name).[1] He has three siblings: Josh, the oldest, is an Air Force pilot; Zachary is his younger brother; his sister Katy is the youngest in the family.[2] His parents separated when he was young, leaving Davies to relocate to Kansas with his mother until the mid-1970s, when she died due to lupus, Davies then crossed the country to live with his father and stepmother in Santa Barbara, California before moving back to the Midwest in 1986 (Rockford, Iowa), where he completed high school. He was the manager of the 1988 Rockford Warriors basketball team. Jeremy Davies has Paternal Scottish and English ancestry.
[edit] Career
Davies's first role of note came as a bit part on a 1990 episode of Singer & Sons. In 1992 he performed on two episodes of The Wonder Years. He also appeared in small roles in the NBC TV movie Shoot First: A Cop's Vengeance and, as a "Scruffy Kid", in the pilot for a colonial-era sitcom called 1775. Among the few substantial roles he had during this time were as a youth in the Showtime thriller Guncrazy and a guest appearance on Melrose Place.
In 1993, Davies was cast in a TV commercial for Subaru in which his character compares the car to punk rock. Numerous casting directors and industry forces noticed the commercial, and soon after Davies found himself being sent feature film scripts. He began building a repertoire with films such as Twister. In 1998 he landed a pivotal role in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan as Timothy E. Upham, an American GI linguist in Normandy, recruited just after D-Day by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) to be the interpreter on a dangerous mission to rescue a paratrooper (Matt Damon). Davies's performance was well-received, and he has gone on to star in some 15 films, including Secretary with Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader, and Solaris with George Clooney. In 2004, he portrayed Charles Manson in CBS's adaptation of Helter Skelter
Davies appeared as a main cast member on ABC's hit series Lost during its fourth season in 2008 and its fifth season in 2009. Davies played Daniel Faraday, an amnesiac physicist who comes to the island as part of a team hired by Charles Widmore, serving to explain the more complex sci-fi elements of the show.[3]
[edit] Filmography
[edit] Film
- Guncrazy (1992)
- Spanking the Monkey (1994)
- Nell (1994)
- Twister (1996)
- Going All the Way (1997)
- The Locusts (1997)
- Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- Ravenous (1999)
- The Florentine (1999)
- The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)
- Up at the Villa (2000)
- Investigating Sex (2001)
- CQ (2001)
- Teknolust (2002)
- The Laramie Project (2002)
- Secretary (2002)
- Searching for Paradise (2002)
- 29 Palms (2002)
- Solaris (2002)
- Dogville (2003)
- Helter Skelter (2004)
- Manderlay (2005)
- Rescue Dawn (2007)
[edit] Television
- Shoot First: A Cop's Vengeance (1991)
- 1775 (1992)
- General Hospital (1992)
- Rock the Boat (2000)
- Helter Skelter (2004)
- Lost (2008-2009)
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