Devon Bostick

{{Short description|Canadian actor (born 1991)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Devon Bostick

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| caption = Bostick in 2024

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1991|11|13}}

| birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada

| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 1998–present

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Devon Bostick (born November 13, 1991){{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/devbostick/status/1327335260053409792 |title=29|via=Twitter|access-date=June 8, 2022}} is a Canadian actor. He is known for his main role as Rodrick Heffley in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid film series (2010–2012). His other lead roles include Adoration (2008), Dead Before Dawn 3D (2012), Okja (2017), and Tuscaloosa (2019). Bostick has also had a number of supporting roles in films such as Godsend (2004), Saw VI (2009), The Art of the Steal (2013), Regression (2015), Words on Bathroom Walls (2020), and Oppenheimer (2023).

In television, Bostick is known for his main role as Jasper Jordan on the CW science fiction series The 100 (2014–2017). He has also had recurring roles as Leo Strange in the CBC series Being Erica (2009–2011), Green on the Quibi series Most Dangerous Game (2020), and Oscar on the Netflix series FUBAR (2023).

Early life and education

File:Devon Bostick 2008.jpg

Bostick was born in Toronto, Ontario.{{cite news |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/movies/devon-bosticks-not-really-evil-he-just-acts-that-way/article1957268/ |work=The Globe and Mail |first=Marsha |last=Lederman |title=Devon Bostick's not really evil – he just acts that way |date=March 27, 2011}} His mother, Stephanie Gorin, is a casting director in Toronto,{{cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/theatre/article/958972--devon-bostick-not-just-another-wimpy-kid |work=Toronto Star |first=Richard |last=Ouzounian |title=Devon Bostick: Not just another wimpy kid |date=March 25, 2011}} who works on stage and screen and his father, Joe Bostick, is an actor as well as a film fight coordinator.

Bostick is of British and Norwegian descent.{{cite web |url=https://www.twitter.com/devbostick/status/307609464477986816 |title=Person "what's your ethnicity?" Me "British/Norwegian"|via=Twitter |date=March 1, 2013 |access-date=April 30, 2015|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140407063835/https://mobile.twitter.com/devbostick/status/307609464477986816?screen_name=devbostick|archive-date=April 7, 2014}} He began acting in the fifth grade and is a graduate of the Etobicoke School of the Arts in Toronto.{{cite news |last=Lacey |first=Liam |title=Egoyan brings post-9/11 vision to Cannes |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=May 24, 2008 |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080522.wcannes22/BNStory/cannes2008/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20080522.wcannes22 |access-date=May 25, 2008}}

Career

Bostick has had roles in the television series Degrassi: The Next Generation, Flashpoint and in the film Citizen Duane,{{cite magazine |last=Dinoff |first=Dustin |title=Contemporary World Cinema: Film Diary: Citizen Duane |page=13 |magazine=Playback |date=September 4, 2006}} and appeared in the series premiere of Rookie Blue. His film work has included roles in Godsend,{{cite magazine |last=Leydon |first=Joe |title=Godsend |page=62 |magazine=Variety |date=May 3, 2004}} Fugitive Pieces and The Stone Angel.

In Adoration (2008), Bostick played Simon, a boy who being raised by his uncle (played by Scott Speedman) after his parents' death. He also appeared in an online spoof trailer for a hoax movie called "Ice Fortress." He had roles in The Poet, a World War II drama starring Roy Scheider and Colm Feore, Saw VI as Brent and Assassin's Creed: Lineage as Ezio Auditore.

Bostick also played Erica's deceased brother Leo in CBC Television's series Being Erica, and Rodrick Heffley in the movies of Diary of a Wimpy Kid.{{cite news |author=Staff Writer |url=http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/TV/null-39813077.html |title=Being Erica |newspaper=Winnipeg Free Press |date=February 18, 2009 |access-date=November 21, 2012}} He played Alan in three episodes of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. In Oppenheimer (2023), Bostick played Seth Neddermeyer, a physicist who worked at Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project and suggested the use of an implosion-type nuclear weapon in the Trinity Test.{{cite web |title=First look at Devon Bostick in 'OPPENHEIMER'. |url=https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1679523278346665984 |website=twitter.com}}{{unreliable source|date=March 2024}}

Filmography

{{Pending films key}}

=Film=

class="wikitable sortable"

|+Devon Bostick film appearances and roles

scope="col" | Year

! scope="col" | Title

! scope="col" | Role

! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes

2003

| data-sort-value="Truth About the Head, The" | The Truth About the Head

| Boy

|

2004

| Godsend

| Zachary Clark Wells

|

2005

| Land of the Dead

| Brian

|

rowspan="4" | 2006

|King of Sorrow

| Low Man

|

Aruba

| Mark

|

Citizen Duane

| Maurie Balfour

|

American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile

| High school student #4

| Direct-to-video

rowspan="5" | 2007

| data-sort-value="Poet, The" | The Poet

| Guard #1

|

Finn's Girl

|

|

Fugitive Pieces

| Teenager Ben

|

data-sort-value="Stone Angel, The" |The Stone Angel

| Young Marvin

|

data-sort-value="Saw 4" | Saw IV

| Derek

| Scenes cut{{cite web |url=http://www.fearnet.com/news/b15576_exclusive_we_chat_with_saw_vi_star.html |title=EXCLUSIVE! We Chat With 'Saw VI' Star Devon Bostick |last=Caims |first=Bryan |work=FEARnet |publisher=Horror Entertainment |date=May 19, 2009 |access-date=September 26, 2010}}

rowspan="2" | 2008

|Adoration

| Simon

|

data-sort-value="Dreaming, The" | The Dreaming

| Boy

|

rowspan="3" | 2009

| Survival of the Dead

| Boy

|

data-sort-value="Saw 6" | Saw VI

| Brent

|

Assassin's Creed: Lineage

| Ezio Auditore da Firenze

| Short film

rowspan="2" | 2010

| Diary of a Wimpy Kid

| Rodrick Heffley

|

data-sort-value="Long Autumn, The" | The Long Autumn

| Boy[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_long_autumn The Long Autumn] at www.rottentomatoes.com

| Short film

rowspan="4" | 2011

| data-sort-value="Entitled, The" | The Entitled

| Dean Taylor

|

Hidden 3D

| Lucas

|

data-sort-value="Sacrifice, The" | The Sacrifice

| Mike

| Direct-to-video

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

|Rodrick Heffley

|

rowspan="3" | 2012

| Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

|Rodrick Heffley

|

Dead Before Dawn 3D

| Casper Galloway{{cite web |url=http://deadbeforedawnthemovie.com/official-cast-reveal-2/ |title=Official Cast Reveal number 2 | Dead Before Dawn |website=Deadbeforedawnthemovie.com |access-date=November 21, 2012}}{{cite web |first=Etan |last=Vlessing |url=http://playbackonline.ca/2011/06/28/bostick-sutherland-to-star-in-dead-before-dawn// |title=Bostick, Sutherland to star in Dead Before Dawn |work=Playback|date=June 28, 2011 |access-date=November 21, 2012}}

|

data-sort-value="Dark Truth, A" | A Dark Truth

| Renaldo

|

2013

| data-sort-value="Art of the Steal, The" | The Art of the Steal

| Ponch

|

2014

| Small Time

| Freddy Klein

|

rowspan="2" | 2015

| Regression

| Roy Gray

|

Being Charlie

| Adam

|

2017

| Okja

| Silver

|

2019

| Tuscaloosa

| Billy

|

rowspan="2" | 2020

| Pink Skies Ahead

| Greg

|

Words on Bathroom Walls

| Joaquin

|

2023

| Oppenheimer

| Seth Neddermeyer

|{{cite web |title=Devon Bostick: Rodrick from Diary of a Wimpy Kid is in Oppenheimer |url=https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/film-and-tv/oppenheimer-christopher-nolan-devon-bostick-rodrick-4219241 |website=www.scotsman.com}}

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| {{Pending film|Salvation}}

| {{TableTBA}}

| Post-production{{Cite web |last=Grobar |first=Matt |date=2021-11-23 |title=Salvation: Skeet Ulrich Boards Thriller From Director Mackenzie Munro |url=https://deadline.com/2021/11/salvation-skeet-ulrich-boards-mackenzie-munro-thriller-1234879246/ |access-date=2023-03-01 |website=Deadline Hollywood}}

{{TableTBD}}

| {{Pending film|Mile End Kicks}}

| {{TableTBA}}

| Production{{Cite web |last=Ramachandran |first=Naman |date=2024-08-29 |title=Euphoria Star Barbie Ferreira to Lead XYZ's Rom-Com Mile End Kicks With Devon Bostick, Stanley Simons, Juliette Gariepy (EXCLUSIVE) |url=https://variety.com/2024/film/global/euphoria-barbie-ferreira-mile-end-xyz-1236123378/ |access-date=2024-08-29 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}

=Television=

class="wikitable sortable"

|+Devon Bostick television appearances and roles

scope="col" | Year

! scope="col" | Title

! scope="col" | Role

! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes

1998

| Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science

| Son

| 1 episode

2002–
2003

|Odyssey 5

| Gothic Teen

| 2 episodes

rowspan="2" | 2003

| DC 9/11: Time of Crisis

| Fireman's son

| Television film

Jake 2.0

| Young Kid

| 1 episode

rowspan="2" | 2004

|1-800-Missing

| Zack

| 1 episode

Hustle

| The Kid

| Television film

2005

| Knights of the South Bronx

| Darren

| Television film

2006–
2007

| Degrassi: The Next Generation

| Nic

| 3 episodes

rowspan="3" | 2007

| Stump

| Ryan

|

data-sort-value="Life Interrupted, A" | A Life Interrupted

| Young Bobby

| Television film

data-sort-value="Altar Boy Gang, The" | The Altar Boy Gang

| Terry

| Television film

rowspan="2" | 2008

| Princess

| Older boy

| Television film

Roxy Hunter and the Horrific Halloween

| Drew

| Television film

rowspan="3" | 2009

| data-sort-value="Good Germany, The" | The Good Germany

| Dale Mackay

| 1 episode

Guns

| Boy #3

| 2 episodes

data-sort-value="Border, The" | The Border

| Ali Jabir

| 1 episode

2009–
2011

| Being Erica

| Leo Strange

| Recurring role (season 1); guest role (seasons 2–4)

rowspan="3" | 2010

| Rookie Blue

| Martin Blentz

| 1 episode

Flashpoint

| Paul

| 1 episode

Haven

| Jimmy

| 1 episode

rowspan="2" | 2011

| She's the Mayor

| Doctor Jimmy

| 1 episode

data-sort-value="Listener, The" | The Listener

| Bennie

| 1 episode

2013

| Aim High

| Marcus Anderson

| Web series

2014–
2017

| data-sort-value="100, The" | The 100

| Jasper Jordan

| Main role (season 1–4)

rowspan="3" | 2019

| Total Eclipse

| Tyler Rotrovski

| 1 episode

I Am the Night

| Tommy

| 2 episodes

data-sort-value="Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The" | The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

| Alan

| 3 episodes

rowspan="2" | 2020

| data-sort-value="Teacher, A" | A Teacher

| Ryan

| Miniseries; 2 episodes

Most Dangerous Game

| Green

| Recurring role

2021

| Everything's Fine

| Justin

| 3 episodes

rowspan="2" |2023

| Fargo

| Donald Ireland

| 1 episode

FUBAR

| Oscar

| Recurring role{{Cite web |last=Andreeva |first=Nellie |date=2022-04-21 |title=Netflix's Arnold Schwarzenegger Series Adds Travis Van Winkle, Gabriel Luna, Fortune Feimster, Jay Baruchel, Milan Carter & More To Cast |url=https://deadline.com/2022/04/netflix-arnold-schwarzenegger-series-cast-travis-van-winkle-gabriel-luna-fortune-feimster-jay-baruchel-milan-carter-1235007566/ |access-date=2023-03-01 |website=Deadline Hollywood}}

2025

| data-sort-value="Studio, The" | The Studio

|Miles

|1 episode{{cite web |last1=MacArthur |first1=Greg |title=The Studio Cast & Character Guide: Who Stars In Seth Rogen's Apple TV+ Comedy |url=https://screenrant.com/the-studio-show-cast-characters-cameos/ |website=ScreenRant |date=25 March 2025}}

= Music video =

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|+List of music video appearances

scope="col" | Year

! scope="col" | Song

! scope="col" | Artist

! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Director

2015

| "Til It Happens to You"

| Lady Gaga

| Catherine Hardwicke

Awards and nominations

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|+

!Year

!Award

!Category

!Nominated work

!Result

2008

|Young Artist Awards

|Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries or Special – Leading Young Actor

| data-sort-value="Altar Boy Gang, The" | The Altar Boy Gang

|{{Nominated}}

rowspan="2" |2010

| rowspan="2" |Young Artist Awards

|Best Performance in a TV Series – Recurring Young Actor 14 and Over

|Being Erica

|{{Nominated}}

Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actor

|Adoration

|{{Nominated}}

2011

|Young Artist Awards

|Best Performance in a Feature Film – Young Ensemble Cast

|Diary of a Wimpy Kid

|{{Won}}

2013

|Young Artist Awards

|Best Performance in a Feature Film – Young Ensemble Cast

|Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

|{{Won}}

rowspan="3" |2020

|Prince of Prestige Academy Awards

|Best Performance by an Actor{{Cite web |title=PAECA Archives |url=https://www.starapplecreative.com/paeca-archives |access-date=July 12, 2024 |website=Star Apple Creative}}

|Tuscaloosa

|{{Won}}

Twin Falls Sandwiches Film Festival

|Achievement in Acting

|Tuscaloosa

|{{Won}}

Las Vegas International Film and Screenwriting Festival

|Best Actor – Feature Film{{Cite web |title=2020 Filmmaker Results |url=https://www.lvifsf.com/2020-fimmaker-finalist |access-date=July 12, 2024 |website=LVIFSF}}

|Tuscaloosa

|{{Nominated}}

rowspan="2" |2021

|Bare Bones International Film Festival

|Best Lead Actor

|Tuscaloosa

|{{Won}}

Cobb International Film Festival

|Best Lead in a Feature Film

|Tuscaloosa

|{{Won}}

References

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