Sean Nelson (actor)
Sean Nelson ( born May 9, 1980 in the Bronx, New York City, New York ) is an American actor, who has already arrived as a teenager to regional prominence when in 1994 he participated among others in the movie Fresh as the main and title character.
Life and career
Nelson was born in the summer of 1980 in the New York City borough of the Bronx, where he grew up and was discovered as a ten year old and brought to acting. So he had at the tender age of ten, his first appearance in an off- Broadway production with the name Hey Little Walter, which was performed at the Young Playwrights Festival of 1990 in the Theatre of Playwrights Horizons. Through this role, and numerous other engagements in the theater, where he was employed in various local theater venues, the young Sean Nelson came over audition mid-1990 and his first stakes in film and television.
After starring in an episode of Here and Now in 1992, he was in 1993 or 1994 in the role of young Michael, called " Fresh", cast in which he in the eponymous film of 1994 in the title as - as well as the main character was to be seen. For this role, he was still awarded in the same year at the Sundance Film Festival and also still got 1995 Independent Spirit Award in the category " Best Debut Performance" as well as a nomination for a Young Artist Award in the category "Best Performance by a Young Actor Starring in a Motion Picture ". Especially this role his later career was due as an actor which earned him roles in numerous internationally known television series, but also some mini series or movies. So he took each a role in the U.S. television series New York Undercover, in which he participated, among others, in the pilot episode in 1994 and 1995. Sean Nelson, of the Our Saviour Lutheran School visited until his international breakthrough in 1994 and then moved on from junior high to high school, where he was eventually accompanied by a tutor in acting, it brought in 1995 still on a guest appearance in an episode of Homicide, before 1996 in the movie American Buffalo - happiness is on the road another major film role was played, with the further increased its notoriety.
Previously, the young actor who gives as his lineage Jamaica and Saint Thomas, 1994 also came in an episode of Law & Order used. Even after Nelson more times was invited as a guest star in the series and had a 2005 appearance in an episode and 2009, equal to an appearance in a recurring role in two different episodes. In addition, born in Co -op City section of the Bronx Nelson held a recurring role as Jesse Bayliss in the U.S. television series Sisters, where he was seen from 1995 to 1996 in nine different episodes. In the latter year was followed by, among others, also a guest appearance in an episode of the client. At another recurring commitment Sean Nelson came in 1997 in two episodes of Touched by an Angel, where you saw him in the role of Calvin.
In subsequent years, his commitment to television series decreased significantly and he focused mainly on the production of films or miniseries. 1998 was followed by a role in the TV movie Bronx County, in which, among other things, the Canadian actress Sandrine Holt or the U.S. actor Alan Rosenberg, Justin Theroux, Christopher Wiehl or Sonja Sohn participated. In 1999, he came to an appearance in the film The Wood, which was broadcast in the German-speaking regions under the name Yes and no, I want and where Nelson mimed a younger version of the lead actor Omar Epps. For his portrayal of the young Mike he was in 2000 for a Black Reel Award in the category - nominated " Best Theatrical Actor". In the same year the premiere of The Wood also a different movie was released, at the Sean Nelson played a major role. In A Stranger in the Kingdom, he held the secondary role of Nathan Andrews.
2000, finally followed in the six-part miniseries The Corner a big commitment, in which he was seen in all six parts in the role of DeAndre McCullough. For this role he was nominated for a Black Reel Award in the category in 2001 "Network / Cable - Best Actor" and an NAACP Image Award nomination in the category "Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini -Series or Dramatic Special". After a guest appearance in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2001, he got a minor supporting role in the 2002 film The Year That Trembled published allocated. This was followed by two rather quiet years when he, among others, in 2003 in an episode of Criminal Intent - was seen Criminal Intent and 2004 participated in the Short Date. In addition, he was seen this year in an episode of the short-lived television series The Jury. 2005 Sean Nelson was re- used in various international broadcast productions. So you saw him among others as in Hezekiah And her eyes saw God, or as Charlie in all six parts of the miniseries Miracle's Boys. In published also in 2005 film The Gospel he played a younger version of the main character of the Reverend Charles Frank represented by Idris Elba. In the years 2006 and 2007 saw Nelson in the movies Premium and The Man Field 12 each in a guest or supporting role. In addition, Nelson was part of the film crew, when it came to the production of Day Zero, where you saw Elijah Wood in a Leading Role and also appeared in 2007. Many different appearances eventually followed in 2009, when they put him among other things in the movies Last of the Ninth and The Taking of Pelham 123, and in an episode of Mercy. Followed in 2010 for the native New Yorker, the premiere of the post-apocalyptic low-budget film Stake Land, which was shown at numerous international festivals. 2011 saw the award-winning and nominated actors also in the short film Juxed, in which he himself came into existence as a producer. In this same work, he lingered in the short film Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave.
Filmography
- 2007: Day Zero (ADR loop group)
- 2011: Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave (producer)
- 2011: Juxed (producer)