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Sean Haroy Faris¹ (born March 25, 1982)² is an American model and actor.

Life and career

Born in Houston, Texas, he moved to Ohio at age 12. After graduating from Padua Franciscan High School, he relocated to Los Angeles, California.

Faris has starred in many different projects, including two television shows, Life As We Know It, and Reunion, both canceled before the end of their first season. Written into an episode of "Life As We Know It" was Faris' resemblance to a young Tom Cruise. He also played William Beardsley in Yours, Mine and Ours.

Faris has also starred in Sleepover with Alexa Vega in 2004. In 2007, Faris returned to work on three back-to-back films, Forever Strong, Never Back Down, and Brooklyn to Manhattan. Never Back Down was released on March 14, 2008, with the other two films also opening in 2008. Currently, Faris is starring in and producing The Glass Eye with his manager Dino May.

In 2008, he stripped for UK Cosmopolitan magazine for a good cause, benefiting his choice of awareness of pancreatic cancer.³ The same year, he produced and starred in a short film called Manifest Destiny.⁴⁵

Filmography

Guest

• Jimmy Kimmel Live (2004) - Himself - Representing Life As We Know It
• Teen Choice Awards (2005) - Himself - Presenter for the V-Cast Award with Reunion castmates
• TRL (March 12, 2008)- Himself- Representing Never Back Down with co-star Amber Heard

he also appeared in Smallville (second series) as Byron

Producer

Awards

Won

• 2008: MTV Movie Award - Never Back Down (Best Fight shared with Cam Gigandet)
• 2007: Young Hollywood Award - The One To Watch
• 2005: Young Hollywood Award⁶

Nominated

• 2005: Young Artist Award - Sleepover (Best Performance in a Feature Film - Young Ensemble Cast along with Mika Boorem, Eileen April Boylan, Kallie Flynn Childress, Scout Taylor-Compton, Brie Larson, Hunter Parrish, Sara Paxton, Evan Peters, Katija Pevec, Ryan Slattery, and Douglas Smith)

References

External links

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• Sean Faris at the Internet Movie Database
• Sean Faris at MySpace
• Official Site