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Matt Baber
Check out our very own Matt Baber!
He is walking the runway in Milan, Italy wearing Versace. Ford Models out of Chicago and New York recruited Matt to model for them. He has been in Seventeen Magazine, Kohl's Print ads and now wearing Versace! WOW this kid is going places!! Congrats Matt!! |
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Amber Jenne
JRP Grad and iPOP! Actor of the year.
Amber is doing some hosting work for "Red Carpet Talk"
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Eliot Bitting
Is in the movie "Detention," where he plays a young Billy Nolan. The character Billy Nolan is played by Parker Bagley who has been in the "Nightmare on Elm Street" movie in 2010.
Here is the trailer for the movie.
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Gabriel Solis
Gabe landed a role in the HBO vampire drama, "True Blood," and the episode featuring him airs Sunday, July 24th 2011. Solis plays the child version of one of the show’s lead characters, Jesus Velasquez, played by Kevin Alejandro.
Gabe Solis will be playing one of the lead characters in the upcoming film "Bless Me, Ultima," with Benito Martinez and Miriam Colon.
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Ashton Unland
Ashton U. has landed a role as an extra in the film "Contagion" starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurence Fishburne & Kate Winslet. Ashton's mom said he shot one scene at the Shedd Aquarium (which is such a neat place) and he shot two additional scenes. Ashton’s mom said..."It really helps getting into big movies when you're able to say you've gone to John Robert Powers".
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Zach Louis
Worked on the new Kelsey Grammer television series called "Boss." Zach will be in episode 4. The show starts in the Fall on the STARZ network. He was cast in a short romantic comedy called Frostbitten and has been cast in the short film "Hidden Treasure." He was cast as a Russian boy named "Nikolai" in State Of Mind Productions Feature Film "Fear." Zach had already been in the movie in a non-speaking role, and the director liked him so much that he brought him back and wrote the Russian boy role especially for Zach. He has the lead in the film "Happy Birthday, Mom." He also has a big part in the movie "The Last Days of Shaniko," where he plays young Zo.
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Kylie Cudney
Kylie has the lead the short film "Poke," by Josh Mullins. It’s about an elderly man who is on the brink of committing suicide after his wife dies, but when he comes into contact with a curious, bright eyed nine year old girl, it's up to him to decide if life is still worth living.
Kylie has been in a zombie movie "Generation of Genocide." She also appeared in "Scraps" and "World Hunger" in 2010 so hopefully it will be out on DVD this year.
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| Dingani B. with Adam Sandler. Dingani has a supporting role in Adam Sandler's new film "Jack and Jill" |
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Matt B.
Matt is represented by Ford Models in Chicago and has appeared in ads for Khols department stores.
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Edin Gali
He is a series regular on the Emmy award winning "Mad Men" on AMC. He also won a SAG award for "Best Dramatic Episode."
Edin is working on various projects right now including:
"Killing Angels" which is in pre-production and he plays Starks. He also has two movies in post-production, "Tomorrow's End" his character is Casper and a crime drama, "Cornered," where he plays Detective Harper.
Edin Gali, is currently filming a TV movie with Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen called "Hemingway and Gellhorn." This film is due out in 2012.
Check out Edin's Reel
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Logan McNeil.
Logan, after winning Male Model of the Year in New York City, has modeled all over Europe doing fashion shows and editorials for all the major designers.
He is represented by Ford Models world wide and Unified Management in Los Angeles.
He has appeared in Mens Health, GQ, Cosmo Girl and Teen Prom magazines.
He has also done several major campaigns for Abercrombie & Fitch.
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Skyler Brigmann
Played an Autistic boy in an episode of "Criminal Minds" and now is filming "Letters from the Big Man," with Lily Rabe and Jason Butler Harner. He was also in an Audi commercial that ran during the winter Olympics.
Here is a link to that commercial.
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Ben Goodall
Has been on episodes of "Criminal Minds", "House," "Big Love," Men of a Certain Age," "Parenthood," and been in couple of short films such as: "Family Watch," "Sebastian and Evey," "Crescendo" where he plays the part of the young Beethoven and "Skeleton's in the Closet." He was in Reba McEntire’s video "Better With You." He did a Dorito's commercial for the Superbowl, a Party City commercial and a promo for the film "HOP" with Russell Brand.
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Clark Pearson
JRP Graduate & iPOP! "Child Actor of the Year Honoree," Clark P. has the lead role in a short film "Spoiled" by Carter Martin shot in Chicago.
Clark has a major role in the movie "The Year After Infection."
Clark did an extras role on "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Big Love," and on the movie "Contagion." He did a video game shoot that he absolutely loved. He will actually be in the game itself. He said the producer kept applauding Clark for "nailing it the first time." Clark and his mom got invited by a Casting Director to be on the Royal Caribbean Allure (never been out to sea... brand new) as an extra in an Adam Sandler movie called "Jack and Jill" Katie Holmes, Al Pacino, & Regis are all there too. All expenses paid for 12 days, plus he gets paid. On top of that, they asked his mom to be an extra and get paid since she had to be there anyway. NICE GIG! |
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Dingani Beza
He will be starring in a film being shot in St. Louis in August 2011. It's the film "23 Minutes to Sunrise" with Eric Roberts, who is Julia Robert's brother, Nia Peeples, and Tom Sandoval.
He has appeared in Adam Sandler's movie "Jack & Jill"
He booked a small series regular role as a loft assistant on Kathie Bates TV series on NBC called "Harrys Law." And Dingani is a regular guest star on "General Hospital."
Dingani is also on the web with his web series "Asylum." Dingani just finished a pilot for a web series called "Relapse," and it’s in production deals with BLIP TV. He is currently shooting two other Indie films. So, life has been very busy. Other than that, he has been attending lots of casting director workshops, lots of agent workshops, and auditioning. He is just trying to keep himself in front of the people who make the decisions.
Check out the trailer at
asylumseries.com
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Cheyenne Davidson
Cheyenne Davidson has been cast in the role as Denzel Washington's step daughter in his upcoming movie to start filming later this year. She will be appearing in the series "We Be Bear" for Nickelodeon and National Treasure 2.
Watch for Cheyenne in the National Honda Commercials to air during the Holidays.
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Michelle McKinney
Michelle is booked with a dance troupe traveling through Europe performing
as "Storm" in the Marvel Comic Book Series X-Men. She stared in March and
will be back in the States at the end of October.
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Alex Richard
Alex has appeared on "Hannah Montana", "Heroes", "Las Vegas" and the new series "Greek".
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Brandon Hillis
Brandon Has appeared on Zoey 101 and has done national commercials for Dr. Pepper, Nextel and Universal Studios.
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Lydia Boland
Lydia appears on the cover of the American Girl Bitty Baby Catalog. Lydia can be seen in Crate and Barrel's childrens catalog Land of Nod. Lydia has shot ads for Khols department stores. Lydia is represented by BMG in Chicago and Coast to Coast Agency in LA.
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Stephan Bender
Stephan played the role of the 15 year old Clark Kent in the blockbuster movie "Superman Returns". He starred in the film "Dream Boy" and "Mustang Sally". He has appeared in the TV series Drake & Josh and has been spotlighted in the magazines: Girls Life, Sweet 16 and Pop Star.
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Nick Griswold
Do you recognize this young man? He is the face for Abercrombie & Fitch Kids. Nick was featured in Italian Vogue as one of the up and coming new faces to be on the look out for.
Nick's latest job is doing the Hollister Campaign. He is now living in New York and is signed with Ford Models. He will be appearing in the Burlington Coat Factory fall catalogue. He just shot editorials for Numero and Iuamo Vogue.
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Alexis Crecelius
Alexis can be seen in "American Girl" catalogues.
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Justin P.
Justin starred in the independent film"5 Ways to Split Apart the Day".
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Nicole W.
Nicole appears in the movie 'Amish Grace' which will air on Lifetime TV.
She is represented by AKA Agency in LA.
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Ashley T.
Ashley cut her first CD at the Sound Kitchen in Nashville.
Her back up musicians were Taylor Swift's drummer; Garth Brook's fiddle player and Dolly Parton's keyboard player.
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Lawson B.
Lawson filmed the pilot for the groundbreaking TV series called "Incybers", which is an adaptation of the original screen play.
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Xander S.
Xander plays young Clyde in the movie "My Dad".
He shot a national commercial for Zhu Zhu Pets and Gold Ice Cream.
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Brittany W.
Was in the movie "Just Go With It," alongside Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston.
Brittany has also appeared in Nick at Nite's Hi-Jinx, and she has also done ads for Lucky Jeans, American Spa and Youngblood Cosmetics.
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Luke G.
Luke has appeared in the movies "The Devil's Tomb", "The Shaggy Dog ", "Dead Doll", "Win a Date with Tad Hamilton", "Ice 44" and "Anchor Man".
He has appeared on UPN's One on One, The George Lopez S how, Alias, Scrubs and Pushing Daises.
Luke has done national commercials for Miller Lite, Geico and Coca Cola.
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Brandon B.
Brandon has appeared in national commercials for Wendys, AT&T and Toms Shoes.
He has appeared in the films "AmerAsian 3", "Truly Blessed", "El Americano", "Notorious", "Descontro" and "B-o-m-b"
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Parker W.
Parker appeared in a "Build A- Bear" national commercial.
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Nathan P.
Nathan shot a commercial for Military Source One. He is represented by AEF
in LA.
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