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Erik Per Sullivan (born July 12, 1991) is an American actor, best known for his role as Dewey, the younger brother to middle child Malcolm, on the FOX series, Malcolm in the Middle which was on air for 7 years.

Personal Life

His father, Fred Sullivan, owns a Mexican restaurant in Milford, Massachusetts called The Alamo.^[1] His mother, Ann, was born in Sweden, and was naturalized as a US citizen in 2007.^[2] He speaks fluent Swedish,^[1] and his family visits Sweden almost every year.^[3] At the age of seven he held a black belt in Tae Kwan Do.^[4]

Career

One of his many roles includes playing the main character, a child, in the movie Wendigos. Sullivan also played the only child in the movie Unfaithful and played the orphaned child Fuzzy Stone, who suffered from weak lungs in The Cider House Rules. He was also in the movie Christmas with the Kranks, playing the character of Spike. He played young Joe Dirt in the film of the same name. In the movie Finding Nemo, he voiced Sheldon the Seahorse. He is currently starring as the title role in the independent film Mo.

He co-starred in Malcolm in the Middle as Dewey from 2000-2006. In 2005, he joined co-star Jane Kaczmarek in writing the afterword to a children’s book called Together, which shows the importance of livestock in the world, and was inspired by the mission of the nonprofit charitable organization Heifer International.

Toward the end of June 2006, he was seen in a specially made advertisement for the airing of the last episode of Malcolm in the Middle on Sky One in the UK. It was then announced after the airing on July 2 that a special program called Dewey’s Therapy Sessions would be showing on July 9, featuring Sullivan.

Education

Erik attended Mount Saint Charles Academy in Woonsocket, Rhode Island before transferring to Phillips Exeter Academy his junior year. He currently is a freshman at the University of Southern California.

External links

• Erik Per Sullivan at the Internet Movie Database

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