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Tye Sheridan
11 November 1996
Elkhart, Texas, USA
5' 8" (1,73 m)
Before his debut film he had acted only in a handful of school plays before being chosen from a field of 10,000 boys to play the youngest son of Jessica Chastain and Brad Pitt in Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life. While filming the movie, he relocated with his mother and sister to Smithville for four months.
In 2012 he joined the cast of Mud, playing the role of Ellis. The film is directed by Jeff Nichols, candidate for the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. The film stars Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon.
Sheridan also plays Gary Jones in the film Joe, which stars Nicolas Cage. For his role he has received the Marcello Mastroianni Award for best upcoming young actor at 70th Venice International Film Festival.
In 2013 he joined the cast of the new film written and directed by Kyle Wilamowski, Grass Stains, along with Kaitlyn Dever. Also will play Ben in Dark Places, along with Charlize Theron, Chloë Moretz and Nicholas Hoult and he plays Will Cutter in The Forger, from a script by Richard D'Ovidio, which stars John Travolta.
In his spare time he enjoys baseball, basketball, bow hunting and bow fishing. Also enjoys riding four-wheelers, being with friends and family, and playing video games.
Tye Kayle Sheridan was born on November 11, 1996 in Elkhart, Texas, to Stephanie (Wright), a beauty salon owner, and Bryan Sheridan, who works for UPS. He has a younger sister, Madison. His family has lived in Elkhart for many generations. - IMDb Mini Biography By: ddp
Trivia
He is close friends with his Grass Stains (2016) co-star, Kaitlyn Dever.For his 16th birthday, Tye received a truck from his parents.
Won the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor at the Venice Film Festival in 2013 for his performance in Joe (2013).
He has English, with some German, Swiss-French, and Scottish, ancestry.
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