Biography
A young American actor, famous for the role of Jozef, Lamb in the fantastic film "Super 8", shot in 2011 by producer Stephen Spielberg and director J. J. Abrams. Also played the main role of Peter Mura in the detective fantastic series "Messengers".Childhood and youth
Joel Courtney was born on January 31, 1996 in the city of Monterey, California. Later, the family of the future actor moved to the city of Mosko in Idaho. Joel was fourteen years old, when in 2010 during the summer school holidays he traveled to Los Angeles, where he was going to play in advertising and earn a fee of $ 100.
Joel prefers to keep privacy and never reports no information about his own family members - neither in an interview or social networks. However, it is known that Joela Courtney has two brothers, Caleb and Josh, and a sister Chatel.
Films
Casting director Patty Kalles gave Joela the Council to pass the audition for filming in the fantastic thriller "Super 8" directed by J. J. Abrams. The young actor listened to the Council and eventually received a major role in his first film project. In 2012, Joel received the Saturn Prize as the best young actor.
Joe Lamb is the main hero of the film "Super 8", the son of the Sheriff's assistant, whose mother died in an accident at the metallurgical plant. The hero will meet with an aggressive alien-cannibal and incredible way to persuade the land.
Joel plays in this film in a pair with El Panning, performing the role of Alice Dainard - a girl who friend Joe, Charles, persuades to play in his amateur zombie film. As a result, Alice falls in love with Joe and turns out to be drawn into a dangerous adventure with the aliel.
In 2014, the film "Tom Sawyer and Geclberry Finn" directed by Joe Casner, where Joel played the main role of Tom Sawyer. Shooting the film went to Bulgaria. In the same year, the film "Mercy" on the story of Stephen King Babul, where the actor also played one of the main roles.
In the same year, the drama of "the sins of our youth" with the participation of Joel Courtney was published. Here the actor plays David, a teenager who, together with Brother Tyler, decided to have fun when parents left and left them in the house together. The guys invited home friends and went to the courtyard to shoot on Christmas garlands from his father's rifle. As a result, the shit was inadvertently killed a boy who was near. Instead of calling the police, teenagers began to invent, how to get rid of evidence and body.
Later, Joel starred in a mystical thriller "Do not let me go" (Don't Let Me Go). There, the actor fulfilled the role of Madsen - a gloomy teenager who goes to campsite together with his father and faces otherworldly.
In 2015, the first and only season of the series "Messengers" came out. Here we are talking about five strangers who suddenly die at that moment when an unknown object falls from space from space. Then these people incredibly come to life and discover superability, and at the same time they learn that now they are angels and their fate - to prevent the apocalypse.
Joel played in this project the role of Peter Mura, a senior school student and a sirotot with a problematic character and suicide. After the "Resurrection", an extraordinary physical force appears at the hero. Once Peter is inappropriate kills one of those who were offended by his guys and starts in running. Having met the rest of the Messengers, Peter will finally find out what a family that has never had.
The actor also starred in two episodes of the series "R.L. Stein: the time of ghosts "as John. This is a horror movie for children and adolescents, the creators of which have tried to avoid frank violence and focused on creating a mysterious and frightening atmosphere. In each episode, young heroes face zombies, revived dolls, vampires and other fantastic creatures. At the heart of the scenario - the stories of Robert Lawrence Stain, the author of "horror literature" for adolescents.
Joel appears in one of the episodes of the series "Agents" Sh.I.T. " In the role of Nathaniel Malik, Brother Giden Malika, one of the antagonists of the series. In 2017, the actor is removed in one episode of the police series "wanted list" in the role of Luke.
In the film "Dear Eleanor", which came out in 2016, the events unfold in the United States during the Cold War, in the 1960s. In the center of the plot - a teenage girl, whose mother died, and his father killed grief and needs help. On the shoulders of the heroine there is care about the house and household, as well as about the younger brothers and sisters.
Joel plays in this film the role of Billy Hopguda, a young man who likes a girlfriend of heroine. Emotions pushed Billy to a near-minded act - send a fake letter from Eleanor Roosevelt. As a result, the girlfriend deals with the heroine to take a trip across the country to meet with Eleanor, the first lady of the country, which the mother of heroine invariably admired when he was alive.
Personal life
Joela Courtney has an account in "Instagram", where you can learn about the current actor affairs and see the fresh photo.
Growth of Joel 182 cm, and the weight is 70 kg.
As far as is known, in 2011, the girl Joel Courtney was an American actress Catherine McNamara, famous for the role of Sony in a science fiction film "Running in Maze: Fire Test."
In 2014, the actor began to meet with the actress Isabelle Furman, who played the main role in the horror movie "Child of Darkness".
Joel Courtney now
In 2018, Joel Courtney starred in the British-American romantic comedy "Budda Kisses". The actor plays one of two main characters - whether Flynna. Lee and another heroine, El Evans, were born in one hospital in one day and all their lives were best friends.
Young people considered their relationships special and even created the "Rules of Friendship", who adhered to communicating with each other. However, later, El falls in love with her elder brother, and the hero begins to jealous and quarrel with his brother. And El risks losing both young people.
Filmography
- 2011 - "Super 8"
- 2011 - "R.L. Stein: Phantom Time "
- 2012 - "Scammer"
- 2013 - "Healer"
- 2014 - "The sins of our youth"
- 2014 - "Mercy"
- 2014 - "Tom Sawyer and Geclberry Finn"
- 2015 - "Messengers"
- 2016 - "Agents" Sch.I.T. "
- 2016 - "Dear Eleanor"
- 2016 - "The River Thief"
- 2017 - "wanted"
- 2017 - "Kill graduation"
- 2017 - "Copy"
- 2018 - "Buddes Kisses"