David Dorfman (born February 7, 1993) is an American attorney and retired actor. He portrayed Aidan Keller in the 2002

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remake '' The Ring'' and its 2005 sequel, ''

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''. His other film roles include Sammy in ''

Panic Panic is a sudden sensation of fear, which is so strong as to dominate or prevent reason and logical thinking, replacing it with overwhelming feelings of anxiety, uncertainty and frantic agitation consistent with a fight-or-flight reaction. ...

'', Joey in '' Bounce'', and Jedidiah Hewitt in ''

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''. He has also portrayed

Charles Wallace Murry Madeleine L'Engle, an American novelist, diarist and poet, produced over twenty novels, beginning with '' The Small Rain'' (1945), and continuing into the 1990s with '' A Live Coal in the Sea'' (1996). Many of her fictional characters appeared in m ...

in the film version of ''

A Wrinkle in Time ''A Wrinkle in Time'' is a young adult science fantasy novel written by American author Madeleine L'Engle. First published in 1962, the book won the Newbery Medal, the Sequoyah Book Award and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and was runner-u ...

''. In 2008, Dorfman appeared in the film ''

Drillbit Taylor ''Drillbit Taylor'' is a 2008 American coming-of-age comedy film directed by Steven Brill, produced by Judd Apatow, Susan Arnold and Donna Arkoff Roth with screenplay by Kristofor Brown and Seth Rogen based on an original story by John Hughe ...

''. He was cast alongside

Thomas Haden Church Thomas Haden Church (born Thomas Richard McMillen; June 17, 1960) is an American actor. After starring in the 1990s sitcom '' Wings'' and playing the lead for two seasons in ''Ned & Stacey'' (1995–1997)'','' Church became known for his film work ...

in ''Zombie Roadkill'', and appeared as a soldier of the Lannisters in the ''Game of Thrones'' seventh season episode " Dragonstone." , Dorfman works in the US House of Representatives, serving as Legislative Director/General Counsel to the Energy & Commerce Committee's Vice Chair and Homeland Security Committee's Cybersecurity Subcommittee Emeritus Chair.

Education

In 2006, Dorfman was admitted to

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the C ...

at age 13. In 2011, he graduated as valedictorian, and was admitted to

Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, Harvard Law School is the oldest law school in continuous operation in the United ...

at 18.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* 1993 births American male child actors American male film actors American male television actors 20th-century American Jews Living people Male actors from Los Angeles Harvard Law School alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni 21st-century American Jews {{US-film-actor-1990s-stub