Jack Reynor
| Jack Reynor | |
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Reynor in 2016
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| Born |
January 23, 1992 Longmont, Colorado, United States |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Citizenship | United States Ireland |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2000–present |
Jack Reynor (born January 23, 1992) is an Irish actor. His notable roles include the lead in Lenny Abrahamson's film What Richard Did (2012), for which he won an IFTA Award for Best Film Actor; the blockbuster Transformers: Age of Extinction; Glassland, for which he won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting at the Sundance Film Festival; Macbeth; and Sing Street.
Reynor was born in Longmont, Colorado and lived in Boulder with his mother, Tara, a native of Ireland. Reynor moved with her to Valleymount, County Wicklow, Ireland, when he was two years old. He went to primary school in the local village and spent his formative years in the rural countryside with his mother and maternal grandparents, Pat and Damien Reynor. His interest in acting began when he played an altar boy on the set of Country, directed by Kevin Liddy, in 1999. He moved to Dublin in 2004 to attend Belvedere College, a private Jesuit school, where he performed onstage in numerous theatrical productions.
In early 2010, he was cast as Robbie, aka 'the boy next door', in Kirsten Sheridan's live format, unscripted Dollhouse, which premiered at Berlinale 2012. He depicted Richard Karlsen in Lenny Abrahamson's feature What Richard Did, which screened at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival. The film portrays the fall of a high school rugby star and golden boy whose world unravels after his involvement in an act of careless violence. Reynor earned the Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) award for best actor in 2013 for his performance, which paved the way for his booking as a smiling barista in the DreamWorks comedy-drama Delivery Man opposite Vince Vaughn.
In January 2013, Reynor was cast as Shane, an Irish race car driver, in Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth episode of the Transformers series. The film was released in June 2014 and co-starred Mark Wahlberg and Nicola Peltz. He, Wahlberg and Peltz are contracted for three films, beginning a new Transformers trilogy. He will return for Transformers: The Last Knight (2017). The feature shattered worldwide box office records, making just over $1.1 billion and becoming the highest grossing movie in Chinese history.
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