Tye Sheridan

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Tye Sheridan
File:Tye Sheridan Deauville 2013.jpg
Sheridan at the 2013 Deauville Film Festival
Born Tye Kayle Sheridan
(1996-11-11) November 11, 1996 (age 27)
Elkhart, Texas
Occupation Actor
Years active 2011–present

Tye Kayle Sheridan (born November 11, 1996) is an American actor.[1][2][3] Sheridan made his feature film debut in Terrence Malick's experimental drama film The Tree of Life (2011) and had his first leading role in Jeff Nichols's film Mud (2012). He also co-starred in David Gordon Green's drama Joe (2013). In 2015, he starred in the drama The Stanford Prison Experiment. Sheridan played Cyclops in the 2016 film X-Men: Apocalypse, and will portray the lead character, Wade Watts, in Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Ernest Cline's Ready Player One, which is slated for a March 30, 2018 release.[4]

Early life

Sheridan was born in Elkhart, Texas. His mother, Stephanie (Wright) Sheridan, owns a beauty salon, and his father, Bryan Sheridan, is an employee of UPS.[5] He has a younger sister, Madison. He attended the Elkhart Independent School District until he began his film career and received tutoring on film sets. Sheridan has graduated from high school.[6] He is of English, as well as German, Swiss-French, Irish and Scottish, descent.[7]

Career

Sheridan made his feature film debut in Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life, with Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain and Sean Penn, after an almost year-long casting search of more than 10,000 children from Texas and Oklahoma.[1] The film premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and went on to be awarded the prestigious Palme d'Or[8] and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.[9][10]

In 2012, he played the leading role of Ellis in Jeff Nichols's Mud opposite Jacob Lofland and Matthew McConaughey. The coming-of-age drama-thriller film premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival[11] and Sheridan received a Critics Choice Award nomination.[12]

Sheridan also plays Gary Jones in the film Joe, which stars Nicolas Cage playing an ex-con who meets a 15-year-old boy, the eldest child in a homeless family headed by an alcoholic father, and is faced with the choice of redemption or ruin.[13] For his role he has received the Marcello Mastroianni Award for best upcoming young actor at the 70th Venice International Film Festival.[14]

In 2014, he played Will Cutter in the film The Forger, from a script by Richard D’Ovidio, which stars John Travolta. The film follows former child art prodigy and art forger Ray Cutter (Travolta), who arranges to buy his way out of prison so he can spend time with his ailing son (Sheridan) and father (Plummer), only to be forced to change his plans and commit one last big job for the syndicate that financed his early release.[15]

In 2015, Sheridan starred in the three films that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. He co-starred opposite Gregg Turkington and Michael Cera in the drama Entertainment, played a prisoner in the film adaptation of the The Stanford Prison Experiment and in Rodrigo Garcia's drama Last Days in the Desert opposite Ewan McGregor, released May 2016.[16] He also had a supporting role in the film adaptation of Gillian Flynn's Dark Places and the leading role in the horror comedy Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse.

Sheridan played the mutant Scott Summers / Cyclops in the 2016 film X-Men: Apocalypse, released on May 27.[17]

Upcoming films

In June 2013, he joined the cast of a film written and directed by Kyle Wilamowski, Grass Stains, along with Kaitlyn Dever. He plays a teen discovering his first love (Dever). When a prank goes awry and causes the death of his girlfriend’s older brother, the boy must balance his secret guilt with his feelings for the girl.[18][19] He will star in the The Yellow Birds (2016) opposite Alden Ehrenreich, Jack Huston and Jennifer Aniston.[20] On February 24, 2016, Sheridan was cast as Wade Watts, a.k.a Parzival, the lead character in Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One, which is slated for a March 30, 2018 release.[21]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2011 The Tree of Life Steve
2012 Mud Ellis
2013 Joe Gary
2014 Last Man Standing Justin Episodes: "Tasers". "Mutton Busting" and "Here's the Kicker"
2014 The Forger Will Cutter
2015 Entertainment Eddie
2015 Last Days in the Desert Son
2015 The Stanford Prison Experiment Peter Mitchell
2015 Dark Places Young Ben Day
2015 Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse Ben Goudy
2016 X-Men: Apocalypse Scott Summers / Cyclops
2016 The Yellow Birds Daniel Murphy Post-production
2016 Grass Stains Conrad Stevens Post-production
2018 Ready Player One Wade Watts / Parzival Pre-production

Commercial

Year Title Role Notes
2016 Sky Fibre - X-Men Apocalypse - Television Advertisement Scott Summers / Cyclops Set after the events of X-Men: Apocalypse[22][23]

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Work Result
2012 Central Ohio Film Critics Association[24] Best Ensemble
(shared with The Tree of Life crew)
The Tree of Life Nominated
2013 Marcello Mastroianni Award at the 70th Venice International Film Festival[25] Best New Young Actor Joe Won
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award[26] Best Youth Performance Mud Won
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2013 Most Promising Performer Nominated
Phoenix Film Critics Society Award[27] Best Performance by a Youth in a Lead or Supporting Role - Male Won
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award[28] Youth in Film Won
Georgia Film Critics Association[29] Breakthrough Award Joe, Mud Nominated
2014 Robert Altman Award At Independent Spirit Awards[30][31] Best Ensemble
(shared with Mud crew)
Mud Won
Critics' Choice Movie Award[32] Best Young Actor/Actress Nominated
Empire Awards[33] Empire Award for Best Male Newcomer Nominated

References

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