Jim Parrack

Jim "Jimmy" Parrack ( born February 8, 1981 in Allen, Texas ) is an American actor. He gained notoriety for his role as Hoyt Fortenberry in the television series True Blood and for his role as LCpl. Peter Kerns in the film Battle: Los Angeles, which premiered in March 2011. Sporadically he also comes as a theater director for use.

Life and career

Jim Parrack was born in 1981 in the town of Allen in the U.S. state of Texas, where he grew up and there from 1996 to 1999, the Allen High School visited. After he already acted as an actor in his high school days, he came some time after its completion there to Los Angeles, where he first lived in 2001 at a best friend's girlfriend, before he settled in Toluca Lake district. In LA, he attended, among others, for two years, The Stella Adler Academy, from which he came afterwards to the or to the Playhouse West Acting School and Repertory Theater in Toluca Lake. There he is still regularly seen in various productions, currently in the play Welcome Home Soldier. After several years with the local theater group, where he acted among others in addition to the actor William Ngo and was trained by Robert Carnegie and Jeff Goldblub, Parrack finally gave in 2006 his film and television debut. He was the first time in the movie Annapolis - to see the struggle for recognition in the non-negligible role of the AJ. In addition, he was seen this year in numerous internationally known television series, where he always brought it to only one application each for a single episode. So it was in this year, among others in the series Monk, ER - The ER, Standoff, CSI - Crime Scene Investigation on the track to see Grey's Anatomy and Close to Home. Further guest appearances followed in 2007 with the television series NCIS, Raines and Criminal Minds, where he reappeared only each in a single row. He also took over this year with the film Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee another film role. He was the second time for the director Justin Lin front of the camera, with whom he worked, among others, already at Annapolis.

His breakthrough came Parrack in the following year, when he was brought in as one of the leading actors in the cast of the hit TV series True Blood, in which he was employed to date in all the episodes of the four previously produced seasons and it took over the role of Hoyt Fortenberry. This role helped him also to increased international awareness. Although he then mainly concentrated on his work in True Blood, he was employed in 2009 in an episode of Supernatural and brought it again in 2011 on a roll of film. This he did in the film Battle: Los Angeles, which had its premiere in March 2011 and in which he occupies one of the leading roles. During his time in the cast of True Blood Parrack has been with the remaining cast (17 people) awarded at the 2009 Satellite Awards with a prize in the category "Best Ensemble, Television". 2010 finally followed by a nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award for "Outstanding Performance by Ensemble in a Drama Series in " where he was also nominated with the 17 -man cast. Besides his work as an actor is Jim Parrack also president of the production company 120 Productions, Inc., which is located in Beverly Hills, and was founded in 2007. On 19 October 2008, he married his current wife Ciera Parrack, which is also active in acting field. Parracks woman has already appeared in a supervised by him as a director play. Furthermore, the Texas native tried as script writer and film director, but he could turn any movie, although he had a movie planned already in 2009.

Filmography

• 2006: Annapolis - Struggle for Recognition ( Annapolis )
• 2007: Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee
• 2011: World Invasion: Battle Los Angeles

• 2006: Monk ( episode 4x11 )
• 2006: Emergency Room - The emergency room (ER ) (one episode)
• 2006: Standoff (1 episode)
• 2006: CSI - Crime Scene Investigation track ( CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ) (one episode)
• 2006: Grey's Anatomy ( one episode)
• 2006: Close to Home ( one episode)
• 2007: Navy CIS ( NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service ) (one episode)
• 2007: Raines ( one episode)
• 2007: Criminal Minds ( one episode)
• Since 2008: True Blood ( 52 episodes)
• 2009: Supernatural ( one episode)
• 2012: Alcatraz ( one episode)

Awards and nominations

• 2010: Screen Actors Guild Award for "Outstanding Performance by Ensemble in a Drama Series in " for his involvement in True Blood (along with 17 other people)

• 2009: Satellite Award in the category "Best Ensemble, Television" for his involvement in True Blood (along with 17 other people)