- Born
- Birth nameTye Kayle Sheridan
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Tye Sheridan was born on November 11, 1996 in Palestine, Texas as Tye Kayle Sheridan. Having been named 1 of Variety's 10 Actors to Watch, he has emerged as 1 of Hollywood's most sought after young talents. He has been seen in Ready Player One (2018) as the lead character Wade Watts. He also starred as young Cyclops/Scott Summers in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), reprising the role in X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019). He also starred in The Mountain (2018), Age Out (2018) & The Night Clerk (2020).
He won the 2013 Marcello Mastroianni Award at the Venice Film Festival for his performance in Joe (2013). Later that year, he was recognized by numerous film critics for his role in Mud (2012). He received a 2014 Critics' Choice nomination for Best Young Actor while the cast was honored w/ the 2014 Robert Altman Award at the Independent Spirit Awards.
He had 3 films at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival: The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015), Last Days in the Desert (2015) & Entertainment (2015). He followed up by starring in The Forger (2014), Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015) & Dark Places (2015).
He then starred in The Yellow Birds (2017) & The Mountain (2018), w/ the latter premiering at the Venice Film Festival in 2018. He won the Golden Goblet Award at the Shanghai International Film Festival for his performance in Age Out (2018).
He recently starred in The Night Clerk (2020).
- IMDb mini biography by: BWR
- ParentsStephanie Sheridan (Wright)Bryan Sheridan
- RelativesMadison Sheridan(Sibling)
- Gender / Gender identityMale
- Is co-founder and president of Wonder Dynamics, an AI tool that automatically animates, lights and composes CG characters into a live-action scene.
- American actor & producer.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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