Bryce Gheisar

Actor, Director

Birthdate: December 22, 2004 (21 Years Old)

Birthplace: Plano, Texas, USA

Bryce Gheisar is a rising young actor whose success story began with his role as younger Ethan in director Lasse Hallström’s

A Dog’s Purpose (2017), with Josh Gad (voice) and Dennis Quaid (playing adult Ethan). Later that year, Gheisar landed a major role in co-writer-director Stephen Chbosky’s hit coming-of-age drama, Wonder, starring Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, and Jacob Tremblay, and grossing over $305 million worldwide. For his third feature, Bryce Gheisar found himself being directed by Clint Eastwood in the train thriller, The 15:17 to Paris (2018), with non-actors Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, and Spencer Stone re-enacting their heroic feats during the 2015 Thalys train terrorist attack in France.

Alongside acting in a string of hit TV shows, including Disney’s Candid Camera-influenced, Walk the Prank (2016-2018), as well as the Nickelodeon series, The Astronauts (2020), Gheisar continued working in feature films, including a reprisal of his role of Julian in Wonder (now a lead role), with White Bird: A Wonder Story (2022), directed by Marc Forster, with Gillian Anderson and Helen Mirren.

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Bryce Gheisar was born in Plano, Texas, and raised by parents Todd and Nicole Gheisar. Gheisar has one older brother, named Blake. While schooling in Plano, Gheisar was successfully competing in gymnastics and then discovered and cast in a short film made in 2015, The Bus Stop. Gheisar has studied at the Cathryn Sullivan Acting for Film Studio, based in Lewisville, Texas. Gheisar’s height is 5’ 7”.

Known For

Wonder

Julian (2017)

A Dog's Purpose

Ethan - 8 Years Old (2017)

The 15:17 to Paris

Alek (11-14) (2018)

Walk the Prank

Herman (2016)

Bryce Gheisar Movies

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2024 |
White Bird
White Bird
2024
Biography, Drama, Family, War
Struggling to fit in at his new school after being expelled for his treatment of Auggie Pullman, Julian is visited by his grandmother and is transformed by the story of her attempts to escape Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
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asJulian
2018 |
The 15:17 to Paris
The 15:17 to Paris
2018
Biography, Drama, Thriller
Three courageous young Americans prevent a terrorist attack on a train bound for Paris.
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asAlek (11-14)
2017 |
A Dog's Purpose
A Dog's Purpose
2017
Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
A dog discovers the meaning of its own existence through the lives of the humans it teaches to laugh and love. Reincarnated as multiple canines over the course of five decades, the lovable pooch develops an unbreakable bond with Ethan.
asEthan - 8 Years Old
2017 |
Wonder
Wonder
2017
Drama, Family
Based on the New York Times bestseller, this movie tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters the fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
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asJulian