Jack Dylan Grazer
Birthdate: Sep 3, 2003
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
Jack Dylan Grazer is an emerging young star who is known for his performances as Freddy Freeman in the DC Extended Universe franchise, Shazam! His feature debut was in the segment titled “The Weak and the Wicked” in the horror anthology movie, Tales of Halloween (2015), with Keir Gilchrist and Grace Phipps, which premiered at the Fantasia International Film Festival.
Grazer’s breakthrough was getting cast as Eddie in the two-part Stephen King adaptation, It (2017), followed by It Chapter Two (2019), both directed by Andy Muschietti and co-starring (in Chapter One) Jaeden Lieberher, Finn Wolfhard, Wyatt Oleff, Chosen Jacobs, Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, and Bill Skarsgård and (in Chapter Two), new cast members Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, and Andy Bean, with both Chapters earning a combined $1.17 billion at the global box office.
Grazer played the 12-year-old Nic Sheff in the dramatic biopic, Beautiful Boy (2018), written and directed by Felix van Groeningen and starring Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet, and Maura Tierney, and grossing only $16.6 million globally. Grazer inaugurated his performance as Freddy with the first entry, Shazam! (2019), starring Zachary Levi, and grossing $366 million worldwide. Grazer next co-starred with Fionn Whitehead, Mena Suvari, and Rainn Wilson in writer-director Alex McAulay’s man-in-a-hole thriller, Don’t Tell a Soul (2020), and premiered at the Deauville Film Festival, followed by a limited release during the pandemic.
Starring in his first Disney-Pixar movie, Grazer had his first major voice role in Luca (2021), with Jacob Tremblay, Emma Berman, Maya Rudolph, and Jim Gaffigan, and earned an impressive $50 million in a limited theatrical window before going to Disney Plus streaming. Grazer’s next vocal performance in an animated movie was co-starring in Ron’s Gone Wrong (2021), with Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, and Olivia Colman, and grossed $60.7 million globally for 20th Century Studios.
Jack Dylan Grazer returned to the role of Freddy in the sequel, Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023), again directed by David E. Sandberg and starring Zachary Levi, with new cast members Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu, and released by Warner Bros. Grazer, as he did in Beautiful Boy, played the younger version of a central character in writer-producer-director Bill Pohlad’s music biopic, Dreamin’ Wild (2022), starring Casey Affleck, Walton Goggins, Zooey Deschanel, Chris Messina, and Beau Bridges, and which premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival.
Grazer continued his specialization in vocal animation work as a voice in See Po Pozco: The Movie (2023), with the single-named co-stars Joey, Eric, Amy, and Emma. Grazer then co-starred in Hamish Linklater’s screen adaptation of Chuck Klosterman’s 2008 novel, Downtown Owl (date to be announced), marking the co-directing debuts of Lily Rabe and Linklater (who were also producers), with the cast of Rabe, Henry Golding, Vanessa Hudgens, Finn Wittrock, and Ed Harris, and released by Sony.
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Personal Details
Born and raised in Los Angeles by parents Angela Lafever and Gavin Grazer (actor-director-producer). Grazer’s relatives include his uncle, famed Hollywood producer Brian Grazer. Grazer attended the Adderley School for the Performing Arts. Grazer came out as bisexual in 2021 during an Instagram live stream; he uses the pronouns “he/they.” Grazer’s height is 5’ 9½”.
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- 2023 | Dreamin’ WildasYoung Joe
Dreamin’ Wild
Musical duo Donnie and Joe Emerson spend everything they have to produce a record in the 1970s.
- 2023 | Shazam! Fury of the GodsasFreddy Freeman
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
The film continues the story of teenage Billy Batson who, upon reciting the magic word "SHAZAM!" is transformed into his adult Super Hero alter ego, Shazam.
- 2021 | Ron’s Gone WrongasBarney
Ron’s Gone Wrong
The story of Barney, an awkward middle-schooler and Ron, his new walking, talking, digitally-connected device. Ron's malfunctions set against the backdrop of the social media age launch them on a journey to learn about true friend...
- 2021 |
- 2019 | It Chapter TwoasYoung Eddie Kaspbrak
It Chapter Two
Twenty-seven years after their first encounter with the terrifying Pennywise, the Losers Club have grown up and moved away, until a devastating phone call brings them back.
- 2019 |
- 2018 | Beautiful BoyasNic Sheff (12 Years Old)
Beautiful Boy
Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many y...
- 2017 |
Some Facts About Jack Dylan Grazer
Anti-Bullying: Jack Dylan Grazer is active against bullying and supports the “Stomp Out Bullying” campaign.
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