Gregory Smith (actor)
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Smith at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival
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Gregory Edward Smith July 6, 1983 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Citizenship | Canadian, American |
| Occupation | Actor, director, writer |
| Years active | 1984–present |
Gregory Edward Smith (born July 6, 1983) is a Canadian-American actor, writer and director. Smith has since appeared in several Hollywood films, and has become best known for his roles as Alan Abernathy in Small Soldiers, Ephram Brown on the television series Everwood, and more recently as Dov Epstein on the hit police drama series Rookie Blue.
Smith was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Terrea (née Oster), a teacher from the USA, and Maurice Smith, a producer of low-budget films originally from the United Kingdom. Smith's mother appeared in several of the films that his father produced during the 1980s. Smith has two brothers, Andrew and Douglas, who is also an actor, and a younger sister, Samantha.
Smith is both a Canadian citizen and a US citizen. He is of mostly English and Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry.
Smith began acting when he was fourteen months old, and appeared in a Tide television commercial and in store catalogues. After a role in the 1994 children's film Andre, he starred in the 1995 direct-to-video release Leapin' Leprechauns and its 1996 sequel, Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns. Also in 1996, Smith appeared opposite Michelle Trachtenberg in Harriet the Spy.
Smith subsequently starred in another direct-to-video film, Shadow Zone: My Teacher Ate My Homework, and appeared in three 1998 films: Krippendorf's Tribe, playing one of the children of the title character, The Climb, a drama also starring John Hurt, and the film Small Soldiers, in which Smith had a lead role opposite Kirsten Dunst, and for which he won a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film Leading Young Actor in 1999.
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