Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Jared Gilman
American actor (born 1998) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
Jared T. Raynor Gilman[2] (born December 28, 1998) is an American actor best known for his role as Sam Shakusky in the 2012 Wes Anderson film Moonrise Kingdom, which earned him a 2014 Young Artist Award nomination as Best Leading Young Actor in a Feature Film.[3]
Remove ads
Personal life
A resident of South Orange, New Jersey, Gilman has attended Chatham Day School and Newark Academy in Livingston, New Jersey.[4] He was on his school's golf club.[5] He currently attends Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He is Jewish.[6] Gilman is asexual.[7]
Career
Gilman got his first professional acting role as Sam Shakusky in Moonrise Kingdom at age 12.[5] In preparation for the film, Gilman studied canoeing, cooking over an open fire, and Clint Eastwood's character in Escape from Alcatraz.[8] In 2016 he appeared in Paterson, once again alongside Kara Hayward.
Gilman has scripted, acted in, and edited his own short action videos.[9]
Gilman has appeared in an outdoor-themed commercial for Verizon Wireless.[citation needed]
Remove ads
Filmography
References
External links
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads