Josh Wiggins

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Josh Wiggins at the screening of Walking Out at the 2017 South by Southwest Film Festival

Josh Wiggins (born November 2, 1998 in Houston ) is an American film actor , who became known as a child actor through the films Retribution and Max .

Life

Wiggins was born in Houston in 1998 and has several brothers. When Wiggins was in fourth grade, his friends passed the time by making Martin Scorsese- style films and spoofed Law & Order videos for fun and posting them on YouTube. The scriptwriter and director Kat Chandlers had seen these videos by chance , and what caught her eye was the Wiggins broadcast. Finding him suitable for a role in one of her films, she invited him to an audition in Los Angeles. After that, Wiggins had his first lead role in the film Retribution , originally titled Hellion , in which he starred in the role of Jake Wilson opposite Aaron Paul and Juliette Lewis and the 2014 Sundance Film Festival for the Grand Jury Prize was nominated. Wiggins also received extremely positive reviews for his role as troublemaker, who takes refuge in heavy metal music in this film, and was repeatedly compared to the young Leonardo DiCaprio .

For his role in Max , which hit US cinemas in June 2015, Wiggins received a nomination for a Young Artist Award in the category of Best Performance in a Feature Film - Young Leading Actor (14-21 Years) . In Mean Dreams , which premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2016 and hit US cinemas in March 2017, Wiggins plays the boy Jonas Ford who tries to escape his parents' home. In the movie Walking Out , Wiggins got the role of David, who has to rescue his father from the wilderness of Montana after a hunting accident.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Young Artist Award

  • 2016: Nomination in the category Best Achievement in a Feature Film - Young Leading Actor (14 to 21 years old) ( Max )

Web links

Commons : Josh Wiggins  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Josh Wiggins biography In: tribute.ca. Retrieved March 29, 2017.
  2. ↑ Logan Hill: New Faces Bringing the Heat in Summer Movies In: The New York Times, May 2, 2014.
  3. ↑ Emma Brown: Aaron Paul and Josh Wiggins were never Hellions In: interviewmagazine.com January 24, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Wiggins, Josh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Houston , Texas, United States