Nat Wolff
Nathaniel Marvin " Nat" Wolff ( born December 17, 1994 Los Angeles ) is an American actor and musician. Wolff is best known as star of the TV series and the film The Naked Brothers Band. He is the band leader sings, writes music and lyrics and plays keyboard, piano and guitar.
Private life
Nat Wolff is the eldest son of the producer, writer and director Polly Draper and jazz musician Michael Wolff. He lives with his parents and his younger brother Alex Wolff in Manhattan, New York.
Services, career
Nat Wolff has repeatedly stapled signs with " I want to be a child actor! " (English for " I want to be a child actor !") To his door. His mother, Polly Draper, this desire first declined. They wanted their children to lead a "normal" life. In order to comply with its requests, she finally left him his own sitcom, entitled "Do not Eat Off My Plate " position. Then Draper changed her mind and he was allowed to be a child actor. They decided to make a film about the children band that had founded Nat preschoolers with friends: The Naked Brothers Band. After the success of The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie at the Hamptons International Film Festival ( 2005), the eponymous TV series followed (2007 to present).
He first drew attention to himself in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, when he celebrated his birthday in a fire station and doing a self-written song, " Firefighter ", lectured. The text was later changed by him and known under the title " Rosalina ", from the first film.
Nat Wolff starred in Off-Broadway theaters in " Getting Into Heaven" and " The Heart Of Baghdad".
According to information particularly the Beatles inspired him to his compositions. About it and its working Wolff says: " I always loved it. I love the Beatles. I know every Beatles song. I wanted to be like them. It's all based on reality. It's not like work. It 's things we might also say or do or want to say or DO. I like the feeling of creating something did was not there. . If we have another season, I'm totally getting ideas " ( translation: " I have always loved I love the Beatles I know every Beatles song I want to be like them, it is all based on reality.. .. . it's not like work. There are things we might say or want to say or do. I love to create something that was not there yet. , if we make another season, I get lots of ideas. " ) In interviews he described his admiration for the Beatles as obsession.
Nat Wolff is considered the youngest songwriter who wrote a hit. He writes songs since he was five years old. The song " Crazy Car " he wrote at age six. As early as 2007 had written 150 songs Nat Wolff. Immediately after its release as a single (2007) concluded " Crazy Car " in the top 100 of various U.S. charts. It belongs to the so-called " bubblegum pop". The subsequent albums, "The Naked Brothers Band " (2007) and "I Do not Want To Go To School " (2008) were able to hold several weeks on the Billboard charts.
Nat Wolff supported in the U.S. presidential election Barack Obama. He wrote a song titled " Yes, we can! ", The motto of Obama. In the TV series The Naked Brothers Band had its premiere in the " Christmas Special ". There he sings it together Natasha Bedingfield and Leon Thomas.
In its 14 years, the voice break has finally prevailed. This was not, as with many child stars, the end of his Sangeskarriere. With live performances in early 2009, inter alia, at an AOL session, he convinced his new voice his followers. In addition to new, self-penned songs Wolff gecovert the Bruce Springsteen classic " Dancing In The Dark".
The Brothers Wolff are known as " Nat & Alex " on tour. With Nat & Alex: Fully Dressed And On tour they started in the fall of 2008 their debut tour in the USA. On July 4, the current Nat & Alex Summer Road Trip Tour began in 2009 in St. Louis.
2010 is Nat Wolff, along with actors such as, among others, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jane Fonda and Elizabeth Olsen in front of the camera to the appearing in 2011 film " Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding " turn to.
Awards, Prizes
For the music for the series The Naked Brothers Band, he shared with his brother Alex and his father Michael Wolff BMI Cable Award 2007. 2009 he was nominated as the best TV actor for UK Kids Choice Award, and together with his brother Alex Wolff for the Kids Choice Awards Australia as the best band.