Jeremy Davies (actor)
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Jeremy Boring (born October 28, 1969), known professionally as Jeremy Davies, is an American actor. He is known for playing Ray Aibelli in '' Spanking the Monkey'' (1994), Corporal Timothy Upham in ''
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'' (1998), Private Toffler in '' Ravenous'' (1999), Snow in ''
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'' (2002), Bill Henson in ''
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'' (2003),
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in '' Helter Skelter'' (2004), Sergeant Gene DeBruin in ''
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'' (2006) and
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on the series '' Lost'' (2008–2010). Davies won an
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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 ''
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'' (2018).


Early life

Davies was born on October 28, 1969, in
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, of
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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. His parents separated when he was young, leaving Davies to relocate to
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with his mother until the mid-1970s, when she died of
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. He went to live with his father and his stepmother in
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, before moving to Rockford, Iowa in 1986, where he completed high school. He attended
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at the
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in
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, in the class of 1990.


Career

In 1991, he played Roger, Robin's first boyfriend, in ''
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''. In 1992, he appeared on two episodes of ''
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''. He appeared in small roles in the
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TV film ''Shoot First: A Cop's Vengeance'' and in the
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for the colonial-era sitcom ''1775''. He played a youth in the Showtime thriller '' Guncrazy'' and had a guest appearance on ''
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''. In 1993, Davies was cast in a TV commercial for
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in which his character compares the car to
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. Numerous casting directors and industry forces noticed the commercial, and Davies found himself being sent feature film scripts. Critics embraced his performance in
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's debut film, the black comedy '' Spanking the Monkey''. In 1998, he landed a pivotal role in
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's ''
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'' as Corporal Upham, an American GI linguist in
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, recruited just after the Normandy landings by Captain John Miller (
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) to be the interpreter on a dangerous mission to rescue the film's eponymous paratrooper (
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). Davies' performance was well received, and he went on to appear in several films, including '' CQ'', ''
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'', and ''
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''. In 2004, he portrayed
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in
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's adaptation of '' Helter Skelter''. In 2006, he appeared in ''
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''.
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, who directed Davies in ''Rescue Dawn'', described Davies as "a unique, very significant talent", asserting that "anywhere in the world, there revery, very few actors of his calibre." Davies appeared as a main cast member on '' Lost'' during its fourth and fifth seasons (2008–09), playing
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, 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. He had a recurring role on FX's '' Justified'' as Dickie Bennett, for which he earned a
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in 2012. He was also nominated for the award in 2011. In 2014, Davies appeared in two episodes of ''
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''. He starred in the
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's 2015 miniseries ''
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'', as Sergeant Ephraim Knowles. This was his second role in a production with
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, the first being 1996's film '' Twister''. In the 2017 TV drama ''
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'' he plays one version of Jesus Christ, and in the 2018 video game ''
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'', he provided the voice and motion capture for Baldur.


Filmography


Film


Television


Video games


References


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