Ilan Mitchell-Smith
- Actor
Ilan Mitchell-Smith was born in New York City and began studying ballet
at an early age. After his family relocated to Amherst, Massachusetts,
he was enrolled in dance classes four days a week and eventually got a
scholarship with the School of American Ballet. While at the ballet, he
was discovered by a casting agent for director Sidney Lumet and was
signed to play Timothy Hutton's character as a young boy in the film,
Daniel (1983). That led to a major role in The Wild Life (1984) in which he played a young
man who had a romanticized notion of the '60s, a part that required a
lot of research into the milieu of the times.
