Dakota Goyo

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Dakota Goyo (* 22. August 1999 in Toronto , Ontario as Dakota Avery Goyo ) is a Canadian actor .

life and career

Dakota Goyo was born in Toronto , the youngest of three sons to Debra, former model and singer, and David Goyo . At the age of five he got his first role in the pilot episode of the CBS series Ultra , from which no series emerged in the end. Also in 2005 he gave a brief guest role in the cartoon series Jojos Zirkus . In 2007 he starred alongside Samuel L. Jackson as the film son of Josh Hartnett and Kathryn Morris in the film The Champ in the role of Teddy Kernan . This role earned him not only good reviews, but also a nomination at the Young Artist Awards 2008 in the category Best Supporting Actor in a Feature Film - Ten Years or Younger . In the same year he played the role of Timmy Winters , the great-grandson of Susan Sarandon's character , in the drama Emotional Arithmetic . This was followed in 2009 by the role of Jack Carter in the film Defendor , a guest appearance in the mystery series The Listener - Hellhörig , and the supporting role as Alwyn Jones in the crime series Murdoch Mysteries . In the same year he was also cast in the title role for the ABC series Solving Charlie , but only one pilot episode was produced. In 2010 he voiced the role of Timmy Tibble for the cartoon series Aardvark Arthur and his friends and made a guest appearance on the short-lived television series Happy Town . At the age of ten, he was selected to play the role of Max Kenton in DreamWorks ' science fiction film Real Steel . For this role, Goyo won the award for Best Actor in a Feature Film at the Young Artist Awards 2012 and was nominated for Best Young Actor at the Saturn Awards 2012 . After completing the shooting of Real Steel , he stood in front of the camera as a young Thor in the film of the same name , which is based on the comic book character of the Marvel publishing house . In 2011 he took on a role in RL Stine's mystery horror television series RL Stine's The Haunting Hour . The end of 2012 took Goyo the synchronous role of Jamie Bennett in the computer-animated 3D - action movie Rise of the Guardians .

Filmography (selection)

Awards and nominations

year Award For category result
2008 Young Artist Award The Champ Best Performance in a Feature Film - Young Actor Age Ten or Younger Nominated
2012 Real Steel Best Performance in a Feature Film - Leading Young Actor Won
RL Stine's The Haunting Hour Best Performance in a TV Series - Guest Starring Young Actor 11-13 Nominated
2012 Saturn Award Real Steel Best Performance by a Younger Actor

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruce DeMara: Dakota Goyo reaches for the stars . In: TheStar.com . August 24, 2007. Retrieved April 6, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b 29th Annual Young Artist Award - Nominations . In: Young Artist Award . Retrieved April 6, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b Nominations for the 38th Annual Saturn Awards . In: SaturnAwards.org . Archived from the original on June 27, 2012. Retrieved on April 6, 2012.
  4. ↑ a b 33rd Annual Young Artist Award - Nominations . In: Young Artist Award . Retrieved May 7, 2012.
  5. ↑ contribution . In: Twitter.com . February 17, 2011. Retrieved April 6, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Goyo, Dakota
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goyo, Dakota Avery (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1999
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario, Canada