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Thomas Dekker (actor)

Thomas Dekker (actor)

American actor


Thomas Alexander Dekker (born December 28, 1987) is an American actor, musician, singer, director and producer. He is known for his roles as John Connor in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Adam Conant on The Secret Circle, and Zach on Heroes.

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Dekker did the voice of Littlefoot in The Land Before Time V-IX (singing voice in The Land Before Time V) and as Fievel Mousekewitz in An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island and An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster. Dekker portrayed Jesse Braun in the 2010 remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Smith in Gregg Araki's film Kaboom. Dekker starred as Gregory Valentine in the TV show Backstrom.

Dekker has also written, produced and self-published online his three electronica albums.

Early life

Dekker was born in Las Vegas, Nevada. His mother, Hilary (née Williams), is a concert pianist, acting coach, actor, and singer from Wales, and his late father, David John Ellis Dekker, was an American artist, set designer, opera singer, and actor[1][2] of English and Dutch ancestry.[3][4][5] His maternal grandfather was Alun Williams, a radio broadcaster for the British Broadcasting Corporation.[6] As a child, he and his parents moved all over the world, including his mother's native United Kingdom and Canada.[7]

Career

Early career

Starting his acting career at age six, Dekker was first seen in the soap The Young and the Restless. He then appeared in Star Trek Generations, two episodes of Star Trek: Voyager and the film Village of the Damned (1995). Dekker also appeared as a child actor on Seinfeld (season 5, episode 16, 1994) and as Bobby (season 7, episode 4, 1995). In 1997, he became a regular on the Disney Channel show Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show which is based on the movie of the same name where he played Nick Szalinski for three years. After the show ended in 2000, he went on to appear in Run of the House, Fillmore!, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, House, Boston Public, Reba and 7th Heaven. He appeared in films such as Campus Confidential and An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster. Dekker has won three Young Artist Awards for his work in The Land Before Time films and one for his guest appearance on Boston Public. In 2001, he played the part of young Donny Osmond in the film Inside the Osmonds.

2006–present

In 2006, Dekker landed a recurring role on Heroes playing the character of Zach (Claire Bennet's best friend). He played Zach for eleven episodes before leaving Heroes to take a starring role in Fox's new show Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles as John Connor, starring opposite Lena Headey and Summer Glau. That show debuted January 13, 2008, and was canceled on May 18, 2009. Dekker also played the lead character Nate Palmer in the web-based science fiction series IQ-145.[8]

In 2009, Dekker appeared in From Within (filmed in 2007), My Sister's Keeper, a drama in which he starred with Cameron Diaz, Alec Baldwin, Abigail Breslin and Medium star Sofia Vassilieva, and Laid to Rest alongside Lena Headey. In 2010, Dekker starred in the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, released on April 30, 2010. His character's name was Jesse Braun, loosely based on the character Rod Lane in the original. That same year he also had a role in All About Evil, an indie horror film.[9]

Dekker starred in Gregg Araki's Kaboom (2010). It is the first film ever awarded the Cannes Film Festival "Queer Palm Award" for its contribution to LGBT presence in cinema. Dekker was a "top candidate" for the lead role in Paramount's remake of Footloose (2011), but the role went to Kenny Wormald.[10] In April 2011, Dekker starred as Lance Loud in the HBO original film Cinema Verite, about the creation of America's first reality television series, An American Family. Dekker played the role of Adam, the male lead on the television series The Secret Circle developed by The CW.[11]

He appeared in Daughtry's music video for their single "Waiting for Superman", which was released September 17, 2013.[12]

Dekker was a regular on the 2015 Fox crime drama Backstrom, playing Gregory Valentine, the gay underworld contact and roommate of Rainn Wilson's title character, revealed to be his half-brother.

Music

Dekker was brought up with a musical background, and started writing music at age ten while living in Canada. At the age of fifteen he landed a record deal; however after feeling that he wasn't as involved in the music as he would have liked, he left to concentrate on making his own music. At the age of sixteen, Dekker started writing and producing his own classical music influenced by electronica which he describes as "electrofolk". His debut album Psyanotic[13] was released in 2008.[14]

Personal life

Dekker on a panel at the 2008 Comic-Con

Dekker has stated that for much of his childhood, he was a victim of sexual molestation.[15] In his teenage years, he was part of a "metalhead" subculture, where he "caused trouble in Las Vegas," and was arrested "five or six times."[15]

Dekker was involved in an auto accident on October 15, 2009, when he hit a 17-year-old cyclist training for a race on a freeway onramp.[16][17] Originally charged with two counts of felony DUI, the charge was reduced to one count of misdemeanor reckless driving when it was found that the cyclist was at fault. He pleaded no contest, and was sentenced to a fine of $300 and two years of informal probation, and ordered to attend a 12-hour alcohol-education class.[18]

Dekker is a vegan.[19][20][21][22]

On April 20, 2011, in an interview with Out magazine Dekker spoke about his sexuality, which had been the subject of speculation:

I've only really had relationships with women, but I'm certainly not closed to it. If there are possibilities of being able to do anything in life, why would you say you would never take any up? In the later chunk of my teen years I was so all over the place with sex. It was terrible. I never really had a real relationship at all. During puberty, it's all about sex, and it's all about figuring yourself out. I think I overdid it when I was younger.[23]

On July 13, 2017, Dekker came out as gay and revealed that he married Canadian actor Jesse Haddock in April that year.[24][25][26]

Awards

  • Young Artist Award  — Best Performance in a TV Comedy Series — Leading Young Actor (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show) (1997)
  • Young Artist Award  — Best Performance in a Voice-Over: TV/Film/Video — Young Actor (An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster) (1999)
  • Young Artist Award  — Best Performance in a TV Series — Guest Starring Young Actor (Boston Public) (2000)
  • Young Artist Award  — Best Performance in a Voice-Over Role (The Land Before Time IX: Journey to the Big Water) (2002)

Filmography

Film

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Music videos

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Discography

Albums

  • Psyanotic (2008)
  • Into the Night (2018)
  • Tasma (2021)

Soundtracks


References

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  6. "home". Iq-145thewebseries.com. Archived from the original on November 29, 2011. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
  7. "Will 'Footloose' hit the Dekker? - latimes.com". Latimesblogs.latimes.com. May 27, 2010. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
  8. "Thomas Dekker in Secret Circle, Titus Welliver in Awakening - CW Pilots". Bscreview.com. March 20, 2011. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
  9. daughtryVEVO (October 24, 2013). "Daughtry - Waiting for Superman". Archived from the original on December 15, 2021 via YouTube.
  10. "SCENE + HEARD: Thomas Dekker Talks Sex, Nudity, Molestation at "Kaboom" Premiere Party". Next Magazine. January 28, 2011. Archived from the original on August 1, 2016. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
  11. "'Terminator's Dekker charged over run-in - Showbiz News". Digital Spy. November 4, 2009. Retrieved February 18, 2012.
  12. "'Terminator' star Thomas Dekker charged with DUI". azcentral.com. November 3, 2009. Retrieved February 18, 2012.
  13. "Thomas Dekker Sentenced To Two Years Probation". Starpulse.com. January 11, 2011. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
  14. Miller, Gerri (September 30, 2010). "Ecollywood: Celebs celebrate PETA's 30th anniversary". MNN Holdings, LLC. Archived from the original on November 15, 2010. Retrieved April 26, 2012.
  15. DuDell, Michael (March 6, 2009). "The Green Quote: Terminator Star Thomas Dekker Is A Longtime VEG!". Ecorazzi, LLC. Archived from the original on April 26, 2012. Retrieved April 26, 2012.
  16. "Thomas Dekker Terminated Meat Chronicles At 12". Vegetarian Star. March 6, 2009. Archived from the original on December 22, 2010. Retrieved April 26, 2012.
  17. Harradine, Gabrielle (March 2009). "ONE-MAN BAND". Vegetarian Times (366). Cruz Bay Publishing: 22.
  18. "The Many Shades of Thomas Dekker". Out.com. April 17, 2011. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
  19. Dekker, Thomas (July 13, 2017). "PLEASE READ pic.twitter.com/Uo5hM94Qp5". @theThomasDekker. Retrieved July 14, 2017.

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