Corey Daniel Sevier (born July 3, 1984) is a Canadian actor. He is perhaps best known for his role on the Fox television series ''
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'' as Gabriel McKay and as Timmy Cabot in ''
Lassie
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''.
Life and career
Sevier was born in
Ajax, Ontario
Ajax (; 2021 population: 126,666) is a town in Durham Region in Southern Ontario, Canada, located in the eastern part of the Greater Toronto Area.
The town is named for , a Royal Navy cruiser that served in the Second World War. It is approxi ...
, the son of Lynda and Bruce Sevier.
Sevier scored a modelling job at the age of six months, winning a baby
beauty pageant
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. As a
child actor
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, he notably appeared on the
''Goosebumps'' television series episodes "A Night in Terror Tower" and "Cry of the Cat". He starred in the movie adaptation of
Wilson Rawls' ''
Summer of the Monkeys''. As a teenager, he played the role of Timmy Cabot in the 1997-1999 remake of the ''
Lassie
Lassie is a fictional female Rough Collie dog and is featured in a short story by Eric Knight that was later expanded to a full-length novel called '' Lassie Come-Home''. Knight's portrayal of Lassie bears some features in common with another ...
'' TV series, and also the character Dan in the ''
Little Men
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'' TV series in 1998 and 1999. In addition, he was the English voice actor for Mega Man Volnutt in the 1998
video game
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''
Mega Man Legends''.
He later starred in the Canadian series ''2030 CE'' as Hart Greyson. He briefly starred in the failed WB series
''Black Sash'' before landing his role on ''North Shore''. He starred in the movie ''
Decoys
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'' and its sequel ''
Decoys 2: Alien Seduction''. He starred opposite
Elizabeth Berkley
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in the
made-for-television movie
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''
Student Seduction'' which premiered on
Lifetime in 2003. He also starred in the 2006 film ''Surf School''.
Sevier guest-starred on the show ''
Instant Star
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'' for a two-episode arc as Hunter, an ex-convict out for revenge. In 2007 he appeared in an episode of ''
The Dresden Files
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The books are ...
'' and in the film ''
The Secret''. In 2008, he co-starred in ''A Broken Life'', appeared in an episode of ''
Smallville
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'' and played a character called Horace Briggs in "Still Waters", an episode of ''
Murdoch Mysteries
''Murdoch Mysteries'' is a Canadian television drama series that premiered on Citytv on January 20, 2008, and currently airs on CBC. The series is based on characters from the ''Detective Murdoch'' novels by Maureen Jennings and stars Yannick ...
''. Corey played the part of Carter in Ryan Little's 2007 film ''
House of Fears''.
In 2011, he had a brief role in the
mythological
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-adventure movie ''
Immortals'' in which he played the role of Apollo.
Portraying fisherman Seth Gunderson, Sevier was part of the ensemble cast of ''
Cedar Cove'', a
Hallmark Channel
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original series based on the best-selling books by
Debbie Macomber
Debbie Macomber (born October 22, 1948) is an American author of romance novels and contemporary women's fiction. Six of her novels have become made-for-TV movies and her ''Cedar Cove'' series of novels was adapted into a television series of th ...
.
Filmography
Movies
Television
References
External links
Corey Sevier– official website
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1984 births
Living people
Canadian child models
Canadian male child actors
Canadian male film actors
Canadian male television actors
Canadian male voice actors
People from Ajax, Ontario
Male actors from Ontario
20th-century Canadian male actors
21st-century Canadian male actors
Child beauty pageant contestants