- Name: Jerry O'Connell
- Date of Birth: February 17, 1974
- Place of Birth: New York, New York, USA
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Jerry starred in his first film "Stand by Me" (1986) at the age of 11. After filming "Stand by Me" (1986), he went back to school, and did not become a full-time actor until he graduated from college,...( read more)
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Native to the Big Apple, O'Connell became known at a young age playing pudgy Vern in the popular yet powerful coming-of-age film, Stand By Me. Although only 11 when he did this film, it wasn't his first. He had a small role in the film Daniel, along with appearances in numerous television commercials and being photographed for a children's workbook. O'Connell began his extensive acting training at H.B. Studio, under Maria Greco. The training led to his being signed for an important off-Broadway production, Walter Music. Following his work as one of the quartet of boys looking for a dead body in Stand By Me, O'Connell continued to act while attending school. He went off to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. During his summer vacations, he starred in his own television series, My Secret Identity and Camp Wilder, as well as landing roles in various telefilms. He also appeared in the film Calendar Girl opposite Jason Priestley, just before graduating. Once free from school, O'Connell landed the starring role in yet another hit sci-fi drama series, Sliders. Playing the intelligent college student, Quinn Mallory, he not only acted for the next four seasons, but produced twenty-five episodes, directed five and wrote one. During his successful run on Sliders, he also put in time doing more feature film work on projects like Joe's Apartement, Jerry Maguire and Scream 2. For the beginning of the new millennium, he has focused most of his time on feature work completing projects like Mission to Mars, Buying the Cow, Tomcats and Down and Under.
On The Howard Stern Show Jerry revealed that his marriage with Rebecca is not blissful, full of fights and disagreements. After weeks of officially stating that they were "trying" to get pregnant, a publicist for the pair confirmed that Rebecca is pregnant with twin girls; which will be born in the winter. When talking about having two little girls O'Connell said "I am excited I am having girls. I know guys are supposed to say, 'I want a boy. I want to play baseball,' but I think I'm going to be good raising girls...I can't wait. They're going to be tough chicks. They're only having sex when I'm dead. If they don't date boys at all and just want to be infatuated with their father, that's what I'm really going for. The nunnery!"
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pooglywooglyposted 24 days ago -
OMG he is such a good actor he's really funny in kangaroo jack
but he is in one of my favourtie t.v. shows called Crossing Jordan he plays detective but people call him woody lol:)posted 474 days ago -
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After the film"Stand By Me" his first t.v series was "My Secret Identity"-"Sliders" was very good in both of those shows and did lots of films inbetween doing other t.v shows.
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