Kevin Zegers
Kevin Zegers (born September 19, 1984) is a Canadian actor and model. He is known for his roles as Josh Framm in the Air Bud film series, Toby Osbourne in Transamerica (2005), Damien Dalgaard in the CW teen drama Gossip Girl, and as rookie FBI Agent Brendon Acres on the ABC crime drama The Rookie: Feds. He has also starred in the films Dawn of the Dead (2004), It's a Boy Girl Thing (2006), The Jane Austen Book Club (2007), Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008), Frozen (2010), The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, and Nighthawks (2019).
Kevin Zegers
Early life[edit]
Zegers was born in Woodstock, Ontario,[1] the son of Mary-Ellen (née Veldman), a teacher, and Jim Zegers, a quarry worker.[2][3][4] He has two sisters, Krista and Katie. (The latter is also an actress; she appeared with him in John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness.)[5] He is of Dutch descent; all four of his grandparents were born in the Netherlands.[6] He attended St Mary's Catholic High School in Woodstock.
Zegers is active in sports, especially basketball, ice hockey, and golf.[7][8] He played on the Hollywood Knights celebrity basketball team, raising money for local Los Angeles schools.[9]
Career[edit]
Early work[edit]
Zegers began his performing career at the age of six, appearing in about 30 TV commercials.[5] His first film role was at the age of seven, in a small part in the Michael J. Fox comedy Life with Mikey (1993), playing a younger version of Fox's character.[1] Subsequently, he made a guest appearance on the acclaimed science fiction series The X-Files, playing a stigmatic child, Kevin Kryder, in the 1995 episode "Revelations," and had a recurring role on the Canadian TV series Traders (1996).[10][11] During this time, he appeared in several made-for-television films, including Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story, The Silence of Adultery, and Rose Hill, and as Noah Thompson in the "Let's Get Invisible!" episode of Goosebumps.[12]
His career received a major boost when he won the role of Josh Framm in Air Bud (1997), a film about a lonely boy who befriends a basketball-playing dog. Air Bud launched a franchise, with four sequels. Zegers appeared in four of the films, as well as a similar title, MVP: Most Valuable Primate (2000), which featured a hockey-playing chimp.[13]