Jeremy Davies
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{{Short description|American actor (born 1969)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Jeremy Davies
| image = Jeremydavies.jpg
| imagesize =
| caption = Davies at the Toronto premiere of Rescue Dawn in September 2006.
| birth_name = Jeremy Boring
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|10|8|mf=yes}}
| birth_place = Traverse City, Michigan, U.S.
| occupation = Actor
| father = Mel Boring
| yearsactive = 1991–present
| website = {{url|http://www.jeremydavies.com/site/}}
}}
Jeremy Boring (born October 28, 1969),{{Cite web |last=Rose |first=Mike|date=2022-10-28 |title=Today's famous birthdays list for October 28, 2022 includes celebrities Julia Roberts, Matt Smith |url=https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2022/10/todays-famous-birthdays-list-for-october-28-2022-includes-celebrities-julia-roberts-matt-smith.html |access-date=2023-01-14 |website=Cleveland.com}} known professionally as Jeremy Davies, is an American film and television actor. He is known for playing Ray Aibelli in Spanking the Monkey (1994), Corporal Timothy Upham in Saving Private Ryan (1998), Private Toffler in Ravenous (1999), Snow in Solaris (2002), Bill Henson in Dogville (2003), Charles Manson in Helter Skelter (2004), Sergeant Gene DeBruin in Rescue Dawn (2006) and Daniel Faraday on the series Lost (2008–2010).
Davies won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2012 for his portrayal of Dickie Bennett in the series Justified (2011–2015). He also received the BAFTA Award for Best Performance in a Video Game for his role as Baldur in God of War (2018).
Early life
Jeremy Davies was born in Traverse City, Michigan, of Scottish and Welsh descent, the son of children's author Melvin Lyle "Mel" Boring. Davies is Jeremy's mother's maiden name, which he adopted as his professional name. He has a brother, Joshua, and two half-siblings, Zachery and Katrina, from his father's second marriage.{{Citation needed |date=April 2024}}
His parents separated when he was young, leaving Davies to relocate to Kansas with his mother until the mid-1970s, when she died of lupus. He went to live with his father and his stepmother in Santa Barbara, California, before moving to Rockford, Iowa in 1986, where he completed high school. He attended college at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in California, in the class of 1990.{{cite web|url= https://www.aada.edu/notable-alumni#decade:1980_current/orderby:all/display:panel |title= AADA Alumni - Notable past Students |access-date=January 7, 2024}}
Career
In 1991, he played Roger, Robin's first boyfriend, in General Hospital. In 1992, he appeared on two episodes of The Wonder Years.{{cite web|url= https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/jeremy-davies/credits/3030389123/ |title= Jeremy Davies Credits |access-date=January 7, 2024}} He appeared in small roles in the NBC TV film Shoot First: A Cop's Vengeance and in the pilot for the colonial-era sitcom 1775. He played a youth in the Showtime thriller Guncrazy and had a guest appearance on Melrose Place. In 1993, Davies was cast in a TV commercial for Subaru in which his character compares the car to punk rock.{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Hortense |url= https://jezebel.com/5178343/daniel-faraday-flashes-into-a-1992-subaru-commercial |title=Daniel Faraday Flashes Into A 1992 Subaru Commercial |work=Jezebel |date=March 21, 2009 |access-date=February 12, 2018}} Numerous casting directors and industry forces noticed the commercial, and Davies found himself being sent feature film scripts. Critics embraced his performance in David O. Russell's debut film, the black comedy Spanking the Monkey.{{cite magazine |last=Travers |first=Peter |url= https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/spanking-the-monkey-19940715 |title=Spanking the Monkey |magazine=Rolling Stone |publisher=Wenner Media LLC|location=New York City|date=July 15, 1994 |access-date=February 12, 2018}}
In 1998, he landed a pivotal role in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan as Corporal Upham, an American GI linguist in Normandy, recruited just after the Normandy landings by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) to be the interpreter on a dangerous mission to rescue the film's eponymous paratrooper (Matt Damon). Davies' performance was well received, and he went on to appear in several films, including CQ, Secretary, and Solaris. In 2004, he portrayed Charles Manson in CBS's adaptation of Helter Skelter. In 2006, he appeared in Rescue Dawn. Werner Herzog, who directed Davies in Rescue Dawn, described Davies as "a unique, very significant talent", asserting that "anywhere in the world, there [are] very, very few actors of his calibre."{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUFKrI8YqbM |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/IUFKrI8YqbM |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Jonathan Demme interviews Werner Herzog (Museum of the Moving Image, 2008|website=YouTube |access-date= Nov 29, 2008}}{{cbignore}}
Davies appeared as a main cast member on Lost during its fourth and fifth seasons (2008–09), playing Daniel Faraday, an amnesiac physicist who comes to the island as part of a team hired by Charles Widmore. He guest-starred in three episodes in Lost{{'}}s sixth season.{{cite web | url=http://www.movieweb.com/news/jeremy-davies-joins-lost | title=Jeremy Davies Joins Lost | last=Orange | first=B. Alan | work=Movie Web | date=August 23, 2007 | access-date=May 5, 2014 | archive-date=May 9, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140509025755/http://www.movieweb.com/news/jeremy-davies-joins-lost | url-status=dead }} He had a recurring role on FX's Justified as Dickie Bennett, for which he earned a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2012. He was also nominated for the award in 2011. In 2014, Davies appeared in two episodes of Hannibal. He starred in the History Channel's 2015 miniseries Texas Rising, as Sergeant Ephraim Knowles. This was his second role in a production with Bill Paxton, the first being 1996's film Twister. In the 2017 TV drama American Gods he plays one version of Jesus Christ, and in the 2018 video game God of War, he provided the voice and motion capture for Baldur.
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable"| Notes |
|---|
| rowspan="2" | 1992
| Guncrazy | Bill | |
| 1775
| Scruffy Kid | Short film |
| rowspan="2" | 1994
| Ray Aibelli | Nominated—Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance |
| Nell
| Billy Fisher | |
| 1996
| Twister | Brian Laurence | |
| rowspan="2" | 1997
| Williard "Sonny" Burns | |
| The Locusts
| Flyboy | |
| 1998
| Corporal Timothy "Tim" Upham | Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| rowspan="2" | 1999
| Ravenous | Private Toffler | |
| The Florentine
| Truby | |
| rowspan="2" | 2000
| Tom Tom | |
| Up at the Villa
| Karl Richter | |
| rowspan="2" | 2001
| Oscar | |
| CQ
| Paul | |
| rowspan="5" | 2002
| Sandy | |
| Secretary
| Peter | |
| Searching for Paradise
| Adam | |
| 29 Palms
| The Drifter | |
| Solaris
| Snow | Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture |
| 2003
| Dogville | Bill Henson | |
| 2005
| Niels | |
| 2006
| Gene | |
| 2010
| Smitty | |
| 2017
| Ritchie Simpson (voice) | Direct-to-video |
| 2018
| Al | |
| 2021
| Terrence Blake | |
| rowspan="2"|2022
| The Infernal Machine{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2021/10/the-infernal-machine-guy-pearce-movie-paramount-1234853842/ |title=Paramount acquires world on Guy Pearce thriller 'The Infernal Machine' |date=11 October 2021 |publisher=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=Dec 20, 2021}} | Elijah Barett | |
| Bitcon{{Cite web |title=Bitcon Movie |url=https://www.bitconmovie.com/ |access-date=2022-10-19 |website=www.bitconmovie.com}}
| Lew | |
| rowspan="2"|2023
| Dan Shepard | |
| Adventures of the Naked Umbrella
| Sam Wanoutsky | |
| 2025
| style="background:#FFFFCC;"| Black Phone 2 {{dagger}} | Terrence Blake | Post-production |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable"| Notes |
|---|
| rowspan="2" | 1991
| Dream On | Mugger #3 | Episode: "No, I'm Just Happy to See You" |
| Shoot First: A Cop's Vengeance
| White Punk | Television film |
| rowspan="3" | 1992
| Roger | |
| The Wonder Years
| Eddie Horvath | 2 episodes |
| Melrose Place
| Pete Stoller | Episode: "The Whole Truth" |
| 2001
| Flush | Television film |
| 2002
| Jedadiah Schultz | Television film |
| 2004
| Television film |
| 2008–2010
| Lost | 23 episodes |
| 2011–2015
| Dickie Bennett | 20 episodes |
| rowspan="2" | 2014
| Hannibal | Peter Bernardone | 2 episodes |
| Constantine
| Episodes: "Non Est Asylum" and "A Whole World Out There" |
| 2015
| Sergeant Ephraim Knowles | 5 episodes |
| 2016
| Lucifer | Nick Hofmeister | Episode: "Lucifer, Stay. Good Devil." |
| rowspan="3" | 2017
| Malcolm Dreyfuss |
| American Gods
| Jesus Prime{{cite web|url=https://www.ew.com/article/2016/09/01/american-gods-jeremy-davies-jesus|title='Lost' alum joins American Gods as Jesus|last=Snetiker|first=Marc|work=EW|date=September 1, 2016|access-date=September 1, 2016}} | Episode: "Come to Jesus" |
| Twin Peaks
| Jimmy | Episode: "Part 6" |
| rowspan="3" | 2018
| rowspan="3" | Dr. John Deegan{{Cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2018/09/arrowverse-crossover-jeremy-davies-arkham-asylum-dr-john-deegan-casting-1202468506/|title='Arkham Asylum's New Face: Jeremy Davies Cast As Dr. Deegan In Arrowverse Crossover|last=Boucher|first=Geoff|date=2018-09-20|work=Deadline|access-date=2018-10-18|language=en-US}} | rowspan="3" | Episode: "Elseworlds" |
| Arrow |
| Supergirl |
| rowspan="2" |2020
|FBI |Kenneth Bates |Episode: "Hard Decisions" |
| The Rookie
|Detective Bill Summerland |Episode: "Hand-off" |
=Video games=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 2018
| BAFTA Games Award for Best Performer |
| 2022
| Baldur | |
References
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External links
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