Trevor Morgan (actor)

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Trevor Morgan (actor)

Trevor John Morgan (born November 26, 1986) is an American actor

Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
. He has appeared in the films The Sixth Sense
The Sixth Sense

The Sixth Sense is a 1999 psychological thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It tells the story of Cole Sear, a troubled, isolated boy who claims to be able to see and talk to the dead, and an equally troubled child psychologist who tries to help him....
, The Patriot
The Patriot (2000 film)

The Patriot is a 2000 epic film war film directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Robert Rodat, and starring Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger. It was produced by the Mutual Film Company and Centropolis Entertainment, and was distributed by Columbia Pictures....
, A Rumor of Angels
A Rumor of Angels

A Rumor of Angels is a 2000 in film American film directed by Peter O'Fallon, starring Vanessa Redgrave as Maddy Bennett and Ray Liotta as Nathan Neubauer....
, Jurassic Park III
Jurassic Park III

Jurassic Park III is the 2001 in film sequel to the 1997 in film film, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and is the first in the series that is neither based on a book by Michael Crichton nor directed by Steven Spielberg....
, The Glass House
The Glass House (film)

The Glass House is a 2001 in film film Film director by Daniel Sackheim and written by Wesley Strick. The sequel The Good Mother was released straight-to-DVD in October 2006....
, Chasing 3000
Chasing 3000

Chasing 3000 is a 2008 in film film chronicling the cross-country travel of two boys to see the 3,000th base hit of Major League Baseball legend Roberto Clemente....
, Mean Creek
Mean Creek

Mean Creek is a 2004 in film independent film directed by Jacob Aaron Estes and starring Rory Culkin, Trevor Morgan , Carly Schroeder, Scott Mechlowicz, Ryan Kelley, and Josh Peck....
, Barney's Great Adventure
Barney's Great Adventure

Barney's Great Adventure is a 1998 film based on the United States television series Barney & Friends, and featured the children's television character Barney....
and Family Plan.

an was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Lisa Morgan and Joseph Borrasso, a commodities trader. He has two half-brothers, Joe and Matt, and a half sister, Jennifer.

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Trevor John Morgan (born November 26, 1986) is an American actor

Actor

Biography

Early life

Morgan was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Lisa Morgan and Joseph Borrasso, a commodities trader. He has two half-brothers, Joe and Matt, and a half sister, Jennifer. His family moved to Orange County, California

Orange County, California

Orange County is a county in Southern California California, United States. Its county seat is Santa Ana, California. The state of California estimates its population as of 2008 to be 3,121,251, making it the third most populous county in California, behind Los Angeles County, California and San Diego County, California....
so Trevor could pursue an acting career.

Career

Morgan was discovered by George Papadakis, a commercial photographer, at 5 yrs. old..Papadakis set up an appointment with a talent agency & casting director saw him and asked his mother if she would be interested in taking him to an audition. He then appeared in several commercials for McDonald's

McDonald's

McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of fast food restaurants, serving nearly 58 million customers daily. McDonald's primarily sells hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chicken products, French fries, breakfast items, soft drinks, milkshakes, and desserts....
and Cheerios

Cheerios

Cheerios is a brand of breakfast cereal created on June 19, 1941 and marketed by the General Mills cereal company of Golden Valley, Minnesota, Minnesota, as the first oat-based, ready-to-eat cold cereal....
and even was featured on a Life cereal box. He got his first break as Alec Mackenzie in the feature film The Family Plan, which led him to appear in Barney's Great Adventure
Barney's Great Adventure

Barney's Great Adventure is a 1998 film based on the United States television series Barney & Friends, and featured the children's television character Barney....
. Morgan was given the lead role of Duke Cooper in I'll Remember April. His co-star Haley Joel Osment

Haley Joel Osment

Haley Joel Osment is an United States actor. After a series of roles in television and film during the 1990s, including a small part in Forrest Gump playing the title character?s son, Osment rose to fame with his performance as Cole Sear in M....
was given the lead role of Cole Sear in The Sixth Sense
The Sixth Sense

The Sixth Sense is a 1999 psychological thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It tells the story of Cole Sear, a troubled, isolated boy who claims to be able to see and talk to the dead, and an equally troubled child psychologist who tries to help him....
, where, in a dramatic reversal, Morgan played Cole's nemesis, a pretentious young actor. His latest film is Local Color where he plays an aspiring artist.

After the success of The Sixth Sense, I'll Remember April was rushed to video due to Osment's role as Pee Wee Clayton. Morgan's picture was replaced by Osment's on the box for marketing

Marketing

Marketing is defined by the American Marketing Association as the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large....
purposes. Actor/director Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson

Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson, Officer of the Order of Australia is an Australian-American actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter....
, who was looking for several child actors to play his seven children in The Patriot
The Patriot (2000 film)

The Patriot is a 2000 epic film war film directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Robert Rodat, and starring Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger. It was produced by the Mutual Film Company and Centropolis Entertainment, and was distributed by Columbia Pictures....
, saw Morgan and asked him to audition for the movie. He landed the role easily and played son Nathan Martin.

Morgan appeared in the films Jurassic Park III
Jurassic Park III

Jurassic Park III is the 2001 in film sequel to the 1997 in film film, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and is the first in the series that is neither based on a book by Michael Crichton nor directed by Steven Spielberg....
and The Glass House
The Glass House (film)

The Glass House is a 2001 in film film Film director by Daniel Sackheim and written by Wesley Strick. The sequel The Good Mother was released straight-to-DVD in October 2006....
(2001). Among his most recent credits are Empire Falls as a menacing jock, the independent films Mean Creek
Mean Creek

Mean Creek is a 2004 in film independent film directed by Jacob Aaron Estes and starring Rory Culkin, Trevor Morgan , Carly Schroeder, Scott Mechlowicz, Ryan Kelley, and Josh Peck....
, Off The Black
Off the Black

Off the Black is a 2006 United States drama film starring Nick Nolte and Trevor Morgan . It was written and directed by James Ponsoldt, who also has a small role in the film, and is his feature directorial debut....
and Local Color, and the baseball flick Chasing 3000
Chasing 3000

Chasing 3000 is a 2008 in film film chronicling the cross-country travel of two boys to see the 3,000th base hit of Major League Baseball legend Roberto Clemente....
. Morgan appeared on the television series, ER
ER (TV series)

ER is an Emmy Award-winning Television in the United States medical drama television series created by the late novelist Michael Crichton and airing on NBC....
, where he played cancer victim Scotty Anspauch for five episodes. For this role he garnered a 1998 SAG Award along with the main cast members of the show. His additional television credits include Genius

Genius

A genius is an individual who successfully applies a previously unknown technique in the production of a work of art, science or calculation, or who masters and personalizes a known technique....
for Disney

The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is the largest media and entertainment corporation in the world. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O....
Telefilms, In the Dog House for Viacom

Viacom

Viacom , short for "Video & Audio Communications", is an United States media conglomerate with various worldwide interests in cable television and satellite television networks , and movie production and distribution ....
/Showtime

Showtime

Showtime is a Pay TV brand used by a number of channels and platforms around the world, but primarily refers to a group of channels in the United States....
, Touched by an Angel
Touched by an Angel

Touched by an Angel is an United States drama television series that chronicles the missions of a group of angels sent by God. Created by John Masius and produced by Martha Williamson , it ran on CBS for nine seasons, from September 21, 1994 to April 27, 2003, and aired in many countries all around the world....
for CBS

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
, Fire Co. 132 for 20th century Fox

20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation , also known as 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, or simply Fox, is one of the six Worldwide major film studios....
and Missing Persons for ABC.

Personal life

Morgan is a pollo-vegetarian

Pesco/pollo vegetarianism

Pollotarianism is a semi-vegetarianism diet in which a person only eats vegetables, fruits, and poultry , but does not consume meat from fish or mammals....
, meaning that chicken is the only meat he eats. He loves music and plays the guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
. He enjoys many sports including basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet high hoop under organized rules....
, baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...
, and ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team sport played on ice. It is a fast paced and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural reliable seasonal ice cover such as Canada, the northern United States, Scandinavia and Russia, though with the advent of indoor artificial ice r...
.

Morgan is friends with actors Haley Joel Osment

Haley Joel Osment

Michael Angarano

Michael Anthony Angarano is an American actor....
, Rory Culkin

Rory Culkin

Rory Hugh Culkin is an United States actor and is the younger brother of Macaulay Culkin and Kieran Culkin....
, Skye McCole Bartusiak

Skye McCole Bartusiak

Skye McCole Bartusiak is an American film and television actress....
, Mika Boorem

Mika Boorem

Mika Sue Boorem is an American actor who has appeared in the films Blue Crush , Sleepover , and Smile ....
, Lou Taylor Pucci

Lou Taylor Pucci

Lou Taylor Pucci is an award-winning American actor who first appeared on film in Rebecca Miller's well received Personal Velocity: Three Portraits in 2002....
, and Ryan Kelley

Ryan Kelley

Ryan Jonathan Kelley is an actor best known for his roles in Smallville . He had a major supporting role in Stolen Summer, which was the film made during the Project Greenlight documentary series....
.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	The Pretender The Pretender (TV series) *The Pretender* is an American television series that aired on NBC from 1996 to 2000. The series starred Michael T. Weiss as Jarod, a genius and former child prodigy with "the ability to become anyone he wants to be," i.e., to flawlessly impersonate anyone in virtually any line of work....	Kid	1 episode
	Baywatch Baywatch *Baywatch* is an United States television series about the Los Angeles County Lifeguards who patrol the crowded beaches of Los Angeles County, California....	Timmy	1 episode
	Touched by an Angel Touched by an Angel *Touched by an Angel* is an United States drama television series that chronicles the missions of a group of angels sent by God. Created by John Masius and produced by Martha Williamson , it ran on CBS for nine seasons, from September 21, 1994 to April 27, 2003, and aired in many countries all around the world....	Stevie Sanders	1 episode
1998	In the Doghouse In the Doghouse "In the Doghouse" is a short story by Orson Scott Card and Jay A. Parry. It appears in his short story collection Maps in a Mirror. Card originally published this story in the December 1978 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact...	Dylan Wagner	made for television (Showtime Networks Showtime Networks Showtime Networks, Inc. is the corporation division of media conglomerate CBS Corporation.The company was established in 1983 after Viacom and Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment merged their premium channels, Showtime and The Movie Channel respectively, into one division.... )
	Family Plan	Alec Mackenzie	Main Role
	Barney's Great Adventure Barney's Great Adventure *Barney's Great Adventure* is a 1998 film based on the United States television series Barney & Friends, and featured the children's television character Barney....	Cody Newton	Main Role
	ER ER (TV series) ER is an Emmy Award-winning Television in the United States medical drama television series created by the late novelist Michael Crichton and airing on NBC....	Scott Anspaugh	5 episodes
1999	I'll Remember April	Duke Cooper	Main Role
	The Sixth Sense The Sixth Sense *The Sixth Sense* is a 1999 psychological thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It tells the story of Cole Sear, a troubled, isolated boy who claims to be able to see and talk to the dead, and an equally troubled child psychologist who tries to help him....	Tommy Tammisimo	appearances
	Genius Genius (film) Genius is a Disney Channel Original Movie....	Charlie Boyle / Chaz Anthony	made for television (Disney Channel Disney Channel Disney Channel is a cable television television channel specializing in television programming for children through original series and movies as well as third party programming.... )
2000	The Patriot The Patriot (2000 film) *The Patriot* is a 2000 epic film war film directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Robert Rodat, and starring Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger. It was produced by the Mutual Film Company and Centropolis Entertainment, and was distributed by Columbia Pictures....	Nathan Martin	supporting role
2000	A Rumor of Angels A Rumor of Angels *A Rumor of Angels* is a 2000 in film American film directed by Peter O'Fallon, starring Vanessa Redgrave as Maddy Bennett and Ray Liotta as Nathan Neubauer....	James Neubauer	Main Role
2001	Jurassic Park III Jurassic Park III *Jurassic Park III* is the 2001 in film sequel to the 1997 in film film, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and is the first in the series that is neither based on a book by Michael Crichton nor directed by Steven Spielberg....	Erik Kirby	supporting role
2001	The Glass House The Glass House (film) *The Glass House* is a 2001 in film film Film director by Daniel Sackheim and written by Wesley Strick. The sequel The Good Mother was released straight-to-DVD in October 2006....	Rhett Baker	Main Role
2002	The Rookie The Rookie (2002 film) *The Rookie* is a 2002 in film drama film, film director by John Lee Hancock. It is based on the true story of Jim Morris, who had a brief but famous Major League Baseball career....	Young Jimmy	uncredited
2003	The Flannerys	-	made for television (ABC)
2003	Uncle Nino Uncle Nino *Uncle Nino* is a 2003 in film film which deals with that unknown cinematic commodity: a family, who have lost their way, but are trying to do good in spite of difficulty....	Bobby Micelli	Main Role
2004	Mean Creek Mean Creek *Mean Creek* is a 2004 in film independent film directed by Jacob Aaron Estes and starring Rory Culkin, Trevor Morgan , Carly Schroeder, Scott Mechlowicz, Ryan Kelley, and Josh Peck....	Rocky Merric	Main Role
2005	CSI: Miami CSI: Miami *CSI: Miami* is a Spin-off of the CBS network series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. The series is an American crime drama television series that trails the investigations of a team of Miami-Dade forensic scientists as they unveil the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths and other crimes....	Patrick Brookner	1 episode
	Empire Falls	Zack Minty	Miniseries
	Reno 911! Reno 911! *Reno 911!* is an United States comedy television program on Comedy Central that debuted in 2003 in television. It is a mockumentary-style parody of law enforcement documentary television series shows, specifically COPS , with comic actors playing the police officers....	School Guy	1 episode
	The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio *The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio* is a 2005 in film film written and Film director by Jane Anderson, based on the book by Terry Ryan .The DVD was released on March 14, 2006....	Bruce Ryan at 16 yrs	Main Role
2006	Local Color Local Color (film) *Local Color* is a film slated for release on 2008 in film by Empire Film Group. It was directed by George Gallo, and stars Armin Mueller-Stahl, Trevor Morgan , and Ray Liotta....	John Talia Jr.	Main Role
2006	Off the Black Off the Black *Off the Black* is a 2006 United States drama film starring Nick Nolte and Trevor Morgan . It was written and directed by James Ponsoldt, who also has a small role in the film, and is his feature directorial debut....	Dave Tibbel	Main Role
2007	Law & Order: Criminal Intent Law & Order: Criminal Intent *Law & Order: Criminal Intent* is an United States television program set in New York City. Criminal Intent premiered on September 30 2001....	Donny Carlson	1 episode
2008	My Mom's New Boyfriend My Mom's New Boyfriend *My Mom's New Boyfriend* is a 2008 romantic comedy film starring Colin Hanks, Antonio Banderas and Meg Ryan. The DVD was released on June 17, 2008....	Eddie	appearances
2008	Chasing 3000 Chasing 3000 *Chasing 3000* is a 2008 in film film chronicling the cross-country travel of two boys to see the 3,000th base hit of Major League Baseball legend Roberto Clemente....	Mickey	Main Role

Awards and nominations

6 Nominations

Teen Choice Award: "Film - Choice Sleazebag" (The Sixth Sense) - 1999

Young Artist Awards: "Best Performance in a TV Drama Series - Supporting Young Actor" (ER) - 1999

YoungStar Award: "Best Young Actor/Performance in a Motion Picture Drama" (The Patriot) - 2000

Young Artist Award: "Best Performance in a TV Movie or Pilot - Leading Young Actor" (Genius ) - 2000

Young Artist Award: "Best Ensemble in a Feature Film" (The Patriot ) - 2001

Young Artist Award: "Best Performance in a Feature Film - Leading Young Actor" (The Glass House ) - 2002

2 Wins

Special Distinction Award: (Mean Creek ) - 2005

President Award: "Star on the Horizon" (Local Color ) - 2006

External links

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(Yahoo Group)