Jeremy Davies

Actor

Birthday October 28, 1969

Birth Sign Scorpio

Birthplace Traverse City, Michigan, U.S.

Age 54 years old

Nationality United States

Height 1.75 m

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1775

He appeared in small roles in the NBC TV film Shoot First: A Cop's Vengeance and in the pilot for the colonial-era sitcom 1775.

He played a youth in the Showtime thriller Guncrazy and had a guest appearance on Melrose Place.

1969

Jeremy Davies (né Boring; born October 28, 1969) is an American film and television actor.

1970

His parents separated when he was young, leaving Davies to relocate to Kansas with his mother until the mid-1970s, when she died of lupus.

1986

He went to live with his father and his stepmother in Santa Barbara, California, before moving to Rockford, Iowa in 1986, where he completed high school.

1990

He attended college at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in California, in the class of 1990.

1991

In 1991 he played Roger, Robin's first boyfriend, on General Hospital, then in 1992, he appeared on two episodes of The Wonder Years.

1993

In 1993, Davies was cast in a TV commercial for Subaru in which his character compares the car to punk rock.

Numerous casting directors and industry forces noticed the commercial, and Davies found himself being sent feature film scripts.

Critics embraced his performance in David O. Russell's debut film, the black comedy Spanking the Monkey.

1994

He is known for playing Ray Aibelli in Spanking the Monkey (1994), Corporal Upham in Saving Private Ryan (1998), Snow in Solaris (2002), Bill Henson in Dogville (2003), Charles Manson in Helter Skelter (2004), Sergeant Gene DeBruin in Rescue Dawn (2006) and Daniel Faraday on the series Lost (2008–2010).

1996

This was his second role in a production with Bill Paxton, the first being 1996's film Twister.

1998

In 1998, he landed a pivotal role in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan as Corporal Upham, an American GI linguist in Normandy, recruited just after the Normandy landings by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) to be the interpreter on a dangerous mission to rescue the film's eponymous paratrooper (Matt Damon).

Davies' performance was well received, and he went on to star in several films, including CQ, Secretary, and Solaris.

2004

In 2004, he portrayed Charles Manson in CBS's adaptation of Helter Skelter.

2006

In 2006, he appeared in Rescue Dawn.

Werner Herzog, who directed Davies in Rescue Dawn, described Davies as "a unique, very significant talent", asserting that "anywhere in the world, there [are] very, very few actors of his calibre."

2008

Davies appeared as a main cast member on Lost during its fourth and fifth seasons (2008–09), playing Daniel Faraday, an amnesiac physicist who comes to the island as part of a team hired by Charles Widmore.

He guest-starred in three episodes in Lost's sixth season.

2011

He was also nominated for the award in 2011.

2012

Davies won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2012 for his portrayal of Dickie Bennett in the series Justified (2011–2015).

He had a recurring role on FX's Justified as Dickie Bennett, for which he earned a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2012.

2014

In 2014, Davies appeared in two episodes of Hannibal.

2015

He starred in the History Channel's 2015 miniseries Texas Rising, as Sergeant Ephraim Knowles.

2017

In the 2017 TV drama American Gods he plays one version of Jesus Christ, and in the 2018 video game God of War, he provided the voice and motion capture for Baldur.

2018

He also received the BAFTA Award for Best Performance in a Video Game for his role as Baldur in God of War (2018).

Jeremy Davies was born in Traverse City, Michigan, of Scottish and Welsh descent, the son of children's author Melvin Lyle "Mel" Boring.

Davies is Jeremy's mother's maiden name, which he adopted as his professional name.

He has a brother, Joshua, and two half-siblings, Zachery and Katrina, from his father's second marriage.