Background

Ethnicity: Tue Sheridan has roots in the American South going back many generations. He is of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, German, and distant Swiss and French, descent.

Tye Kayle Sheridan was born on November 11, 1996, in Elkhart, Texas, United States, to Stephanie (Wright), a beauty salon owner, and Bryan Sheridan, a United Parcel Service employee. He has a younger sister, Madison.

He once said: "I was a kid that grew up in the South and was always outdoors fishing and hunting and, you know, swimming in the pool during the summer."

“I had such a pure upbringing - my childhood was a really happy time. There's a lot of love in my house. I have the greatest parents ever.”

Education

Tye Sheridan became a student in the Elkhart Independent School System starting in kindergarten and he showed early talents for academics and athletics. Later he began his film career. Later he received tutoring on film sets and graduated from high school.

When he was asked, if he is trying to go to college, he said: "I'd love to just go to school. It's just hard to find the time. But even just for a semester or something would be amazing. I just want to have that experience while I'm young, and I'm just hungry to learn. I have such a strong desire to be in a classroom and have that college experience."

Career

Tye had almost no acting experience when he was cast in a breakthrough role for Terrence Malick's movie Tree of Life (2011) opposite Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, and Jessica Chastain. The film won the 2011 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the 2011 Gotham Award for Best Picture, in addition to three Academy Award nominations. He was also featured in IndieWire's "Top 25 Filmmakers and Actors" of 2011.

Sheridan won the 2013 Marcello Mastroianni Award at the Venice Film Festival for his captivating performance in the Southern drama Joe (2013) opposite Nicolas Cage. That same year, he was recognized by numerous film critics for his starring role in Jeff Nichol's coming-of-age drama Mud (2012) opposite Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon. He received a 2014 Critics' Choice nomination for Best Young Actor and the cast was honored with the 2014 Robert Altman Award at the Independent Spirit Awards.

He had three films at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival: The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015), based on a shocking real-life psychological experiment; Rodrigo Garcia's Last Days in the Desert (2015) co-starring Ewan McGregor and the indie drama Entertainment (2015) starring alongside Michael Cera and John C. Reilly. These riveting performances were followed by a starring role opposite John Travolta in the crime thriller The Forger, Paramount's horror-comedy Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015), in addition to Gilles Paquet-Brenner's adaptation of Gillian Flynn's mystery novel Dark Places (2015) alongside Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Nicholas Hoult.

In 2017, Sheridan starred in war drama The Yellow Birds (2017), which is a film adaptation of Kevin Power's novel of the same name. In 2018, his film The Mountain (2018) premiered at the Venice Film Festival, he also won the Golden Goblet Award at the Shanghai International Film Festival for his performance in Age Out (2018).

Sheridan wrapped production for Michael Cristofer's crime drama The Night Clerk (2020), alongside Helen Hunt and Ana de Armas.

Achievements

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  Tye Sheridan is the popular American actor has been featured in both drama as well thriller films. He has made headlines in the film industry as a teen idol with amazing skills. He was a nominee for Critics’ Choice Movie award as well as a nominee for the Empire Award.
  
  He was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame with the Rising Star Award in Austin, Texas (March 2017).
  
  In 2012, Tye Sheridan was nominated for Best Ensemble Award at the “Central Ohio Film Critics Association.” For his remarkable work in “The Tree Of Life.”
  
  In 2013, he was nominated for many awards shows. He has won four awards this year in different categories.

Works

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  • Dark Places

    (From the best selling book by Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl), ...)

    2015
  • Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

    (When their peaceful town is ravaged by a zombie invasion,...)

    2015
  • Watch The Mountain

    (Set against the 1950's "golden age" of American male supr...)

    2018
  • Ready Player One

    (From filmmaker Steven Spielberg comes the science fiction...)

    2018
  • Last Days in the Desert

    (An imagined chapter from Jesus' forty days and nights, st...)

    2015
  • Dark Phoenix

    (When Jean Grey is struck by a mysterious cosmic force tha...)

    2019
  • Mud

    (Mud is a timeless adventure about two boys, Ellis and his...)

    2012
  • X-Men: Apocalypse

    (Apocalypse, the most powerful mutant in Marvel’s X-Men un...)

    2016
  • The Yellow Birds

    (Alden Ehrenreich, Tye Sheridan and Jennifer Aniston star ...)

    2017
  • All Summers End

    (A teenage boy (Tye Sheridan) falls in love with a girl (K...)

    2017
  • Deadpool 2

    (Wisecracking anti-hero Deadpool joins a motley collection...)

    2018
  • The Forger

    (A thief (John Travolta) works with his father (Christophe...)

    2014
  • The Stanford Prison Experiment

    (Based on the infamous true story, 24 students role play a...)

    2015
  • Detour

    (Harper (Tye Sheridan) suspects his stepdad Vincent (Steph...)

    2016
  • Joe

    (An ex-con, who is the unlikeliest of role models, meets a...)

    2013
  • The Tree Of Life

    (The Tree of Life is the impressionistic story of a Midwes...)

    2011
  • Age Out

    (Age Out is a passionate portrait of youth set in Waco, Te...)

    2018
  • Entertainment

    (Same Day As Theaters. "A twisted existential comedic mast...)

    2015

Views

Quotations: "Drama is something I'm good at, I guess."

"I think it's my job as a young actor to watch adult actors and take tips on the way they work."

"There's not anyone, in particular, I'd like to work with. I just want to continue doing work that I have a passion for."

"I just randomly fell into acting. I was so young at the time that I never really thought about acting... After I was into it, I had a feeling that I was going to end up doing this anyway somehow."

"When I was shooting Mud (2012), every day was my favorite! I had so much fun on this film and loved working with all the cast and crew! It was a great experience."

Personality

Sheridan's idol is James McAvoy, whom he acted alongside in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016).

James Dean is Sheridan’s inspiration to become a young actor. He rose to fame and had an outstanding net worth within a short period before his tragic demise. "I'd say James Dean is someone that's really inspired me. Just the fact that he did only three movies before he died at such a young age, and yet everyone knows who he is. It really blows my mind." - he said.

He dreamed of being a baseball player when he grew up.

Physical Characteristics: Height: 5' 7" (1,7 m)

Hair Color: Brown

Eye Color: Blue

Complexion: Fair

Interests

• playing the guitar

• Sport & Clubs

  baseball, football

Connections

Sheridan was once reportedly in a relationship with his ‘X-Men’ film series co-star Sophie Turner briefly in 2015.

Father:

Bryan Sheridan

Mother:

Stephanie Sheridan

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James McAvoy

Sister:

Madison Sheridan

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Nicolas Cage

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Brad Pitt

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John Travolta

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Ewan McGregor

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Charlize Theron

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Michael Fassbender

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Jennifer Lawrence

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Jennifer Aniston

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Steven Spielberg

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Sophie Turner

References

• Tye Sheridan • Instagram photos and videos