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Jeremy Renner
Renner at MJC Institute Days and Performing and Media Arts Center Grand Opening, January 2009
Born	Jeremy Lee Renner January 7, 1971 (1971-01-07) (age 39) Modesto, California, USA
Occupation	Actor, musician
Years active	1995–present
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Jeremy Lee Renner (born January 7, 1971) is an American actor and musician. Renner appeared in films throughout the 2000s, mostly in supporting roles. He gave critically acclaimed performances in Dahmer (2002) and Neo Ned (2005). Renner gained fame and recognition for his starring performance in the 2009 war thriller The Hurt Locker, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.

Early life

Renner was born in Modesto, California, the eldest of five children, to Valerie Cearley and Lee Renner.^[1] He graduated from Fred C. Beyer High School and attended Modesto Junior College.^[2]

Career

In 2003, Renner was one of the actors who appeared in the Bravo reality television series The It Factor.

Renner has made a career out of playing charismatic anti-heroes. He has portrayed an eighteenth-century vampire, a gun-toting alcoholic, and a notorious serial killer, among other film roles. In addition to having done extensive theater work, Renner has starred in several major independent films, including the 2009 Iraq war thriller The Hurt Locker (directed by Kathryn Bigelow) which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. He received several other major award nominations for Best Actor for this role, and won that award from the San Diego Film Critics Society.

He portrayed serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in Dahmer (2002), which earned Renner his first Independent Spirit Award Best Actor nomination. He has also played supporting roles in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and 28 Weeks Later. In 2005 he won the Best Actor award at the Palm Beach International Film Festival for his role in Neo Ned.

In 2010, Renner will appear in Ben Affleck's The Town and will shoot for The Raven, which is scheduled for release in 2011.^[3] Renner was in talks with Marvel Entertainment about potentially playing the character Hawkeye in a movie series based on The Avengers but has since explained that it was pure conjecture and no truth to him actually doing it.^[4]

Filmography

Television

• National Lampoon's Senior Trip (1995)
• Deadly Games (1995), episode "Boss" as Tod
• Strange Luck (1996), episode "Blinded by the Son" as Jojo Picard
• A Friend's Betrayal (1996)
• A Nightmare Come True (1997) as Steven Zarn
• Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane (1999), episode "Pilot" as Jack
• The Net (1999), episode "Chem Lab" as Ted Nida
• Time of Your Life (1999), episode "The Time the Truth Was Told" as Taylor
• Angel (2000) episode Somnambulist as Penn
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2001) episode Alter Boy as Roger Jennings
• The It Factor (TV series) (2002) as himself
• House M.D. (2007), episode "Games" as Jimmy Quidd
• The Oaks (2008) as Dan
• The Unusuals (2009) as Detective Jason Walsh

Film

Music work

• North Country Soundtrack (2005) performed "I Drink Alone"
• Performed with the band Sons of Ben
• Performed "American Pie" in Love Comes to the Executioner
• Campfire performance of "Good Ole Rebel" in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
• Pink's Trouble music video as a Bad Boy Sheriff (2003)

Further reading

• Peter Howell (September 9, 2008). "Iraq War Movie Put Hurt on Actor". The Toronto Star. http://www.toronto.com/movies/article/623163. Retrieved 2010-02-25. 

References

External links

• Jeremy Renner Online
• Jeremy Renner at the Internet Movie Database

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