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Name: Jonathan Taylor Thomas
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Date of Birth:
September 08, 1981
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Place of Birth:
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA
Mini-bio:
As a child, Thomas played Randy Taylor on the popular television show Home Improvement. He went on to voice Young Simba in Disney's The Lion King and Pinocchio in The Adventures of Pinocchio. He remai...( read more)ned with Home Improvement well into his teenage years, being written out of the show in 1998. He served as guest timekeeper at WrestleMania XI in 1995.As Thomas got older, he earned a reputation as a teen heartthrob and was a leading cover boy on teen magazines. In 1998, he starred in the Christmas comedy I'll Be Home for Christmas, which, although heavily hyped as his break into movies, was actually a commercial flop. He also appeared in the movies Man of the House, Tom and Huck, Wild America, Common Ground and Speedway Junky. He had a guest role on the ABC sitcom 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter in early 2004, and appeared in the WB's Smallville in 2002 and 2004. In 2005, he had a guest role in UPN's high school detective drama Veronica Mars, and was also featured on The E! True Hollywood Story's show on Home Improvement.In 2006, he provided voice audio as the young Simba (via stock audio from The Lion King) in the PlayStation 2 video game Kingdom Hearts II, developed by Square Enix. He also played a guest cameo role as Missing Kid #2 in the slasher flick Rest Stop, reprising his role as Randy Taylor from prior "Home Improvement" fame.