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Jeremy Sumpter
Born	Jeremy Robert Myron Sumpter February 5, 1989 (1989-02-05) (age 19) 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. Sumpter and his family live in Los Angeles.

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 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.

Career

In July 2002, Sumpter, then thirteen years old, was selected for the role of Peter Pan, breaking the long-standing tradition of young women playing the part in stage and live-action film adaptations of the story. During filming (fall of 2002), he grew several inches, requiring some filming and staging tricks to conceal his height in scenes filmed late in production. 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. The $140 million-budgeted film opened in December 2003, but did poorly, possibly due to reports of its more "adult" treatment of the J. M. Barrie story and competition at the box office from the highly-anticipated The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

Sumpter spent the summer of 2005 in Oregon filming the comedy The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang, which was theatrically released in November, 2007. 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 is also attached to appear in Prep School.^{citation needed}

Personal life

Sumpter enjoys surfing, as well as basketball, football, baseball, snowboarding, tennis, soccer, hiking, swimming, rollerblading, golf, and watching storm clouds.^{citation needed} His favorite movie is King Kong, he also likes Unforgiven and Twister.^{citation needed} In October 2005, Sumpter competed in his first celebrity golf tournament: the Eddie Money Golf Tournament in Northern California; his team placed 3rd out of 24 teams.^{citation needed}

Filmography

Awards

• 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
• Jeremy Sumpter Is To Star As Peter Pan (July 16, 2002)