Jacob Tremblay
Birthdate: Oct 5, 2006
Birthplace: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Jacob Tremblay has been a big-screen actor since he was six years old, debuting in the live-action/animated sequel, The Smurfs 2 (2013), with Neil Patrick Harris, Brendan Gleeson, Jayma Mays, Katy Perry, and Hank Azaria under Raja Gosnell’s direction and grossing $347.5 million globally for Sony Pictures Animation/Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Releasing.
Tremblay’s first significant feature child performance was as co-lead with Brie Larson (who won the Best Actress Oscar) in director Lenny Abrahamson’s fine Oscar-nominated version of screenwriter Emma Donahue’s adaptation of her own acclaimed novel, Room (2015), with Joan Allen, Sean Bridgers and William H. Macy, and earning an excellent $36 million gross (on $13 million expenses) for distributors A24/StudioCanal/Elevation Pictures after launching at the Telluride Film Festival.
Tremblay co-starred with Kate Bosworth and Thomas Jane in director/co-writer/editor Mike Flanagan’s horror-fantasy film, Before I Wake (2018), with Annabeth Gish and Dash Mihok, premiering at the Fantasia Film Festival and released in the U.S. by Relativity Media to a return of approximately $5 million. Tremblay co-starred with Vera Farmiga in director/writer Jordan Roberts’ version of Robyn Joy Leff’s story, Burn Your Maps (premiering in 2016 at the Toronto Film Festival, but subsequently released in 2019 by Vertical Entertainment), with supporting players Suraj Sharma, Ramon Rodriguez, Virginia Madsen, and Marton Csokas.
Jacob Tremblay was cast opposite Naomi Watts, Oliver Platt and Charlie Heaton in the psychological horror movie, Shut In (2016), directed by Farren Blackburn and receiving poor reviews and box office (care of distributor EuropaCorp), and then Tremblay again shared the screen with Watts and co-star Jaeden Martell in the Focus Features/Universal Pictures-backed drama, The Book of Henry (2017), with Sarah Silverman, Lee Pace, Maddie Ziegler, Tonya Pinkins and Dean Norris under Colin Trevorrow’s direction. Tremblay’s biggest role to date (and perhaps most seen) is Auggie Pullman, a boy with the rare facial deformity known as Treacher Collins Syndrome, in director/co-writer Stephen Chbosky’s highly successful screen version of R.J. Palacio’s 2012 novel, Wonder (2017), starring Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson, with Mandy Patinkin and Daveed Diggs, grossing a knockout $315 million gross on a $20 million budget.
Tremblay joined cast mates Boyd Holbrook, Olivia Munn, Trevante Rhodes, Keegan-Michael Key, Sterling K. Brow, and Thomas Jane in director/co-writer Shane Black’s The Predator (2018), the fourth entry in the Predator series, and which launched in Toronto Film Festival’s Midnight Madness section before a mild $160.5 million release by 20th Century Fox. Tremblay for the first time took the lead, this time in the Seth Rogen/Evan Goldberg-backed coming-of-age comedy, Good Boys (2019), with Keith L. Williams, Brady Noon, Molly Gordon and Lil Rey Howery under the direction of Gene Stupinsky (who co-wrote with producer Lee Eisenberg), grossing a robust $111 million (on $20 million costs) for Universal Pictures after launching at the South by Southwest Film Festival.
Jacob Tremblay reunited with director/writer/editor Mike Flanagan for a supporting role in the screen adaptation of Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep (2019), a sequel (of sorts) to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980), starring Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyleigh Curran and Cliff Curtis, but proving to be a box-office dud with a $72.4 million gross against $55 million expenses. Tremblay landed his first starring voice role in a Disney/Pixar movie, director/story writer Enrico Casarosa’s fantasy based on the Jesse Andrews/Mike Jones screenplay, Luca (2021), with the voices of Jack Dylan Grazer, Emma Berman, Saverio Raimundo, Maya Rudolph and Jim Gaffigan, and earning over $51 million in limited theatrical (via Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures) before becoming the most-viewed streaming movie of 2021 for Disney+.
Tremblay again starred in the lead voice role in an animated fantasy movie, Cartoon Saloon’s feature version of Ruth Stiles Gannett’s children’s 1948 novel, My Father’s Dragon (2022), with the voices of Gaten Matarazzo, Golshifteh Farahani, Dianne Wiest, Rita Moreno, Chris O’Dowd, Judy Greer, Alan Cumming, Jackie Earle Haley, Whoopi Goldberg and Ian McShane under Nora Twomey’s direction, and released by Netflix in the U.S. and U.K. for limited theatrical release before streaming. Tremblay’s next voice role in a Disney movie was in director/producer Rob Marshall’s The Little Mermaid (2023), his live-action version of the 1989 animated original based on Hans Christian Andersen’s tale starring Halle Bailey, Jonah Hauer-King, Melissa McCarthy, Javier Bardem, Daveed Dig, gs and Awkwafina, grossing an underwhelming $570 million on $240 million costs.
Jacob Tremblay took on roles in director/writer/producer Roxine Helberg’s thriller, Cold Copy (2023), with Bel Powley and Tracee Ellis Ross, followed by a top role opposite Peter Dinklage (in the title voice role) in director/writer Macon Blair’s reboot of Troma Entertainment’s The Toxic Avenger Unrated (2023), with Taylour Paige, Elijah Wood and Kevin Bacon and released wide in 2025 by Cineverse and Iconic Events Releasing. Tremblay reunited again with director/writer/editor Mike Flanagan for another Stephen King adaptation, The Life of Chuck (2025), in which Tremblay plays the title character’s 17-year-old self, with lead Tom Hiddleston’s lead adult character, co-starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, Mark Ham, ill and Nick Offerman, grossing a disappointing $13.7 million for distributor Neon.
Tremblay rejoined Nick Offerman in the co-lead of director/writer Christian Swegal’s crime thriller about anti-government extremists, Sovereign (2025), with Dennis Quaid, Thomas Mann, Nancy Travis, and Martha Plimpton, released theatrically and digitally by Briarcliff Entertainment. Tremblay co-starred in animation studio Laika’s long-in-the-making stop-motion animated dark fantasy based on Colin Meloy’s and Carson Ellis’s 2011 novel, Wildwood (2026), with the voice cast of Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Carey Mulligan, Mahershala Ali, Jemaine Clement, Awkwafina, Angela Bassett, Amandla Stenberg, Tom Waits, and Richard E. Grant under Travis Knight’s direction.
Jacob Tremblay portrayed college-age Ted Kaczynski in the IM Global/2.0 Entertainment/MRC Film-backed biopic, Unabomb (date to be announced), co-starring Russell Crowe, ShaileneWoodleyy and Annabelle Wallis under Janus Metz’s direction, and then Tremblay co-starred with Aaron Paul and Charlie Murphy in director/writer Jesper Ganslandt’s screen version of Jo Nesbø’s thriller, The Night House (date to be announced).
Personal life
Jacob Tremblay was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada by his parents, Christina and Jason (a police detective). Tremblay has two sisters, Erica and Emma (both actors). Tremblay attended and graduated from Yorkson Creek Middle School in Langley, British Columbia. graduated from in School. has been married to since; the couple has children. Tremblay’s height is 5’ 6”.
Jacob Tremblay Movies
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Previous (15)
- 2025 |
The Toxic Avenger Unrated
asWade
A horrible toxic accident transforms downtrodden janitor, Winston Gooze into a new evolution of hero: The Toxic Avenger.
- 2025 |
Queen of Bones
asSam
A folktale about twin siblings who suspect their father is hiding secrets to their deceased mother's connection with the supernatural.
- 2025 |
- 2025 |
The Life of Chuck
asCharles 'Chuck' Krantz
A life-affirming, genre-bending story based on Stephen King's novella about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz.
- 2024 |
- 2023 |
The Little Mermaid
asFlounder
A young mermaid makes a deal with a sea witch to trade her beautiful voice for human legs so she can discover the world above water and impress a prince.
- 2021 |
- 2019 |
The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
asRupert Turner
The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
A decade after the death of an American television star, a young actor reminisces about the written correspondence he shared with him, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.
- 2019 |
- 2018 |
The Predator
asRory McKenna
When a young boy accidentally triggers the universe's most lethal hunters' return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled scientist can prevent the end of the human race.
- 2017 |
- 2017 |
The Book of Henry
asPeter Carpenter
With instructions from her genius son's carefully crafted notebook, a single mother sets out to rescue a young girl from the hands of her abusive stepfather.
- 2016 |
- 2015 |
- 2013 |
The Smurfs 2
asBlue
The Smurfs team up with their human friends to rescue Smurfette, who has been abducted by Gargamel, since she knows a secret spell that can turn the evil sorcerer's newest creation, creatures called "The Naughties", into real Smurfs.
Facts About Jacob Tremblay
Try It Out: Jacob Tremblay was inspired to try out acting as he saw one of his sisters working as an actor: “I was like, ‘Hey, I want to do acting too’—this was just in commercials—and then one day, I got an audition for my first movie, The Smurfs 2, and I did it.”
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