Cayden Boyd

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Cayden Michael Boyd (born May 24, 1994 in Bedford , Texas ) is an American actor . His sister Jenna , who is around a year older, is also active in the acting field. It should be mentioned that the two have never worked together in a single production.

life and career

Born in 1994 in the US state of Texas as the son of a US Navy pilot, Boyd moved with his family to Los Angeles at a young age. There they settled in the Sun Valley neighborhood , where Boyd also attended school. Even as a toddler he was used as a model, after he got his first job as a model through his mother, and was active in campaigns for various children's clothing companies and brands; including z. B. JC Penney . He finally made his first appearance in film and television in 2001 in an episode of the first season of Scrubswhere he was seen in a very small and insignificant role. Further engagements followed just a year later, including a recurring role in the Nickelodeon series Taina . The boy was also seen in an episode of King of Queens , as well as in his first film appearance, in Rob Lewbel's Fault . That same year, Cayden Boyd was also booked as an actor for a commercial for the fast food chain McDonald’s . For his work on the spot he was nominated the following year for a Young Artist Award in the category “Best Performance in a Commercial”.

In 2003, his work has focused primarily on film productions, where he alongside a significant role in the double Oscar-winning melodramatic thriller directed by Clint Eastwood Mystic River in the independent film Exposed , directed by Misti Barnes and the comedy Freaky Friday - A fully Freaky Friday used has been. In 2004 he took on a recurring role again for two episodes; this time in the very short-lived television series Century City . He had another appearance this year in an episode of Crossing Jordan - Pathologist with Profile . Only a very small role in Neid was followed by a not insignificant supporting role in Rawson Marshall Thurber's Full on the Nuts that same year . In the German-language dubbed version of the film, Maximilian Artajo from Berlin lent him the German voice. The native Texan had further series appearances in 2005 in one episode of the two crime series Cold Case - No Victim Is Ever Forgotten and Closed to Home, as well as in an episode of the ABC series Night Stalker, which was canceled after just one season .

He also took on a leading role in a full-length feature film that year. He was seen in the family film The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D in the role of nine-year-old Max, who is the focus of the entire film . The German voice was lent to him in this production by Simon Illig , who has already acted several times as the German voice of Alexander Gould . A film production with Boyd's participation was released each year for the next three years. In 2006 he was seen as a young version of Angel portrayed by Ben Foster in the third X-Men part X-Men: The Last Stand . A year later he was seen again in a leading role in the drama Have Dreams, Will Travel ; this time he played twelve-year-old Benjamin “Ben” Reynols , who emigrated from the Midwest to Baltimore on the east coast of the United States with his girlfriend and later wife Cass “Cassie” Kennington (played by AnnaSophia Robb ) . Another year later, Cayden Boyd plays a younger version of the character Michael Waechter ( Ryan Reynolds ) in the movie Back in Summer , a role that is also not insignificant. In X-Men: The Last Resistance and Back in Summer , Sebastian Fitzner gave him the German voice.

His far (as of February 2014) last significant presence in film and television had the Wahlkalifornier in 2010, when he for later in the pilot episode of Fox acquired but soon set out due to poor rates again deposed Past Life in the role of Noah Powell used has been. The series was canceled after only three broadcast episodes after a major drop in ratings; after it was initially announced that the remaining episodes were also to be broadcast, only two more episodes were shown. The last two episodes were never broadcast afterwards.

In 2012 Cayden Boyd graduated from Sun Valley Village Christian High School . In high school he was also active for the football team and was their quarterback and defensive back .

Filmography

Film appearances (also short appearances)
Series appearances (also guest and short appearances)

Nominations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meet the boys and girls of summer films , accessed on February 5, 2014
  2. ↑ a b 24th Young Artist Awards ( memento of the original from September 5, 2014 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed February 5, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.youngartistawards.org
  3. ^ FOX Adds "Good Guys" Encore , accessed February 5, 2014
  4. ↑ Cayden Boyd on allhighschools.com (English), accessed February 5, 2014
  5. ↑ It Takes a Village Rally to Beat La Salle , accessed February 5, 2014
  6. ↑ Cayden Boyd at hudl.com (English), accessed February 5, 2014
  7. ↑ Cayden Boyd on maxpreps.com , accessed February 5, 2014
  8. ↑ Cayden Boyd in a McDonald's commercial (2003) ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed February 5, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mediakidvids.net

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personal data
SURNAME Boyd, Cayden
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boyd, Cayden Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Bedford , Texas, United States