| 39th | Top Welsh Americans |
| Thomas Dekker | |
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 Thomas Dekker, December 2007 |
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| Born | Thomas Alexander Dekker December 28, 1987 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor, director, producer |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Official website | |
Thomas Alexander Dekker (born December 28, 1987) is an American film and television actor and a musician. He is also a singer and has written and produced two albums. He is best known for his roles as John Connor in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Zach on Heroes. He also did the voice of Littlefoot in The Land Before Time V-IX (singing voice in The Land Before Time V) and as Fievel Mousekewitz in An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island and An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster.
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Starting his acting career at age six, Dekker was first seen in the soap The Young and the Restless. He then appeared in Star Trek Generations and Village of the Damned. Later, in 1997, he became a regular on the Disney Channel Original Show Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show based on the movie of the same name where he played Nick Szalinski for three years. After the show ended in 2000, he went on to appear in Run of the House, Fillmore!, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, House, Boston Public, Reba and 7th Heaven. He appeared in films such as Campus Confidential and An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster. He has won three Young Artist Awards for his work in the The Land Before Time films and one for his guest appearance on Boston Public.
In 2006, Dekker landed a recurring role on Heroes playing the character of Zach, (Claire Bennet's best friend). He played Zach for eleven episodes before leaving Heroes to take a starring role in Fox's new show Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles as John Connor, starring opposite Lena Headey and Summer Glau. That show debuted January 13, 2008 and was cancelled on May 18, 2009. Dekker is currently playing the lead character Nate Palmer in the web based sci-fi series IQ-145.[1].
Dekker next appeared in My Sister's Keeper, a drama in which he stars alongside Cameron Diaz, Alec Baldwin, Abigail Breslin and Medium star Sofia Vassilieva. The film was released on June 26, 2009.
Upcoming projects include:
He is also set to star in the highly anticipated remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street due for a release April 30, 2010. His character's name is Jesse Braun, a jock on the swim team.
Dekker was brought up with a musical background, and started writing music at age ten while living in Canada. At the age of fifteen he landed a record deal; however after feeling that he wasn't as involved in the music as he would have liked, he left to concentrate on making his own music. At the age of sixteen, Dekker started writing and producing his own classical music influenced by electronica which he describes as "electrofolk". His' first album Psyanotic is complete and is currently in negotiations with record companies and he is working on a second. Some of his music is hosted on his MySpace page. His first album Psyanotic has recently been released for full download and purchase on the iTunes store.
Dekker was born in Las Vegas, Nevada to a Dutch father and a Welsh mother.[2] His mother is a concert pianist, acting coach, actress, and singer, and his father is an artist, set designer, opera singer and actor.[3] As a child he and his parents moved all over the world, spending time in the United States, Europe (Yorkshire, England, in particular) and Canada. He has a step sister named Diana and a step brother named Erik. Dekker is a vegan.
Dekker was involved in an auto accident on October 15, 2009, when he hit a 17-year old cyclist on a freeway onramp.[4] Originally charged with two counts of felony DUI, the charge was reduced to one count of misdemeanor reckless driving when it was found that the cyclist was at fault. He pleaded no contest, and was sentenced to a fine of $300 and two years of informal probation, and ordered to attend a 12-hour alcohol-education class.[5]
My sisters keeper(2009)
   | Official website - StarMANIA - Thomas Dekker Official Website |
| | Thomas Dekker - Thomas Dekker - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki |
| | Thomas Dekker Fansite - MySpace.com - www.myspace.com/457964879 |
| | MySpace - Thomas Dekker on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads |
| | Official MySpace page - MySpace.com - Music Lyrics - 28 - Female - - myspace.com/thomasdekker |
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