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Date of Birth

6 October 1974, Grass Valley, California, USA

Birth Name

Jeremy Merton Sisto

Height

6' 1½" (1.87 m)

Mini Biography

Jeremy Sisto was born in Northern California in a small town called Grass Valley. His film debut was in the movie Grand Canyon (1991). He studied at UCLA for a while and then started acting full time. Jeremy likes to play Bocci (Italian Bowling) and play his guitar in his spare time.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Tori

Spouse

Addie Lane	(13 October 2009 - present) 1 child
Marisa Ryan	(30 August 1993 - 21 June 2002) (divorced)

Trivia

In 1998, he produced the film "Taken" with his friend Ethan Embry. Another friend of Ethan's directed the film, which has not yet been released.

Mother is Reedy Gibbs

Dated Reese Witherspoon

Brother of Meadow Sisto.

Jeremy's father, Dick Sisto, is a jazz DJ and musician in Louisville, Kentucky.

Appears very young in the well-known Twisted Sister's video for "We're Not Gonna Take It."

Recently formed his own production company, Dima Entertainment (April 2003)

Played Jesus in the TV film "Jesus" (1999), and a demon in Hideaway (1995).

He grew up in Chicago, Illinois.

Full name is Jeremy Merton Sisto. He was named after the Trappist philosopher Thomas Merton.

Raised as a youngster in a rock house built on 20 acres of land by his parents when they were farmers in the lower Sierra Nevada mountains. His parents divorced when he was six.

At the age of 8, while living in Chicago, Jeremy and older sister, Meadow Sisto, began auditioning for theater roles. The Goodman Theatre hired them both for a production of "House Not Meant to Stand." Another production, "Galileo" in 1987, had Jeremy appearing with Brian Dennehy.

Currently has a band and is working on getting an album out. He is the singer of the band and also plays guitar.

Father Dick Sisto became a jazz musician and educator (his instrument is the vibes) who at one point was part of the Chicago jazz scene. He later hosted jazz shows on Louisville radio (WFPK). Jeremy's mother, Reedy Gibbs, is an actress.

He worked at a Subway sandwich shop briefly before entering films.

Won the 2004 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for "Best Featured Performance" for his work in the play "Take Me Out".

Announced that he and fiancée, Addie Lane, are expecting their first child, a girl. [March 11, 2009].

Personal Quotes

I tend to (get cast) as dark characters, and I'm more drawn to those characters anyway - they're usually more interesting. Plus, I got this deep voice from my father, and the combination of the timbre of my voice and my inflections tends to make people feel that there's some darkness there.

[On the Batman character]: I think Batman is a great character in that he has a lot of internalization, and his heroics come from a dark place. You can have fun with that side of him, sort of showing his dislike for people and yet, at the same time, he's all about helping people and doing good for society.

[Discussing the character of Batman]: Batman is a bit of a loner. He's very intuitive and, while the rest of the Justice League are using their super powers, he uses his detective skills to get to the heart of the matter and, in this case, help save the world. Throughout the course of the story, though, I think he learns that it's not such a bad thing to have friends.

When you're doing a voice for an animated project, you don't have the props and the different visual things that make it a bit easier for an actor to make a scene real for you. So you're stuck in a booth alone and you're kind of forced to use your imagination a little bit more.

When I was a kid, I liked Superman. When I got a little older, I liked Wolverine. And then I found girls.

Where Are They Now

(October 2004) Playing troubled and troubling baseball player Shane Mungitt in LA's Geffen Playhouse production of the play "Take Me Out."

(August 2007) Has joined the cast of "Law & Order" (1990) for its 18th season as "Det. Cyrus Lupo". Will begin airing in Jan. 2008.

(April 2007) Starred in short film "The War Prayer" based on short story by Mark Twain, of same name. Directed by 'Michael Goorjian' for Lyceum Films. Scheduled to debut at the 2007 LA Shorts Fest Sept 11, 2007 and at 2007 Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal, Canada in Oct. 2007.

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