Douglas Smith (actor)

Douglas Smith
Smith at the 2013 Miami International Film Festival premiere of The Boy Who Smells like Fish
Born	Douglas Alexander Smith (1985-06-22) June 22, 1985 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1996–present
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)

Douglas Alexander Smith (born June 22, 1985) is a Canadian-American actor most notable for his work on the HBO series, Big Love as Ben Henrickson, the eldest son of polygamist Bill Henrickson.

Early life

Smith was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the son of Terrea (née Oster), an American-born teacher, and Maurice Smith, a producer of low-budget films, who is originally from the United Kingdom. Smith's mother appeared in several of the films that his father produced during the 1980s. He is the younger brother of actor Gregory Smith.

Career

Smith has been acting since he was cast as Malvolio in his 4th grade production of Shakespeare's comedy, Twelfth Night. Audiences first saw him on the big screen as a young version of Brendan Fraser's character in Blast from the Past (1999), opposite Alicia Silverstone, Sissy Spacek, and Christopher Walken. As a teenager, he went to Australia to play the lead role as an American boy living in Australia in a series called Out There. Early in his career, Smith honed his craft through appearances on some of television's most notable procedurals, including CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, Close to Home, Family Law, The X-Files, Crossing Jordan, and Cold Case, among many others.

Most known for his regular role as Bill Paxton's son on Big Love, Smith co-starred in the films Sleepover, Rock the Paint, Santa's Slay and State's Evidence. He also played the pivotal role of Edward Porris in Brandon Cronenberg's directorial debut, Antiviral. The film competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, and took home the award for Best First Canadian Feature at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.

In late 2012, Smith began filming the musical/comedy/horror film, Stage Fright. He played the roles of both Metal Killer and Buddy, in addition to performing two musical numbers in the film. One of the songs was alongside Grammy winning artist, Meat Loaf. Stage Fright premiered at the 2014 SXSW Film Festival and was released by Magnolia Pictures.

2013 saw Smith star as Tyson, the cyclops half-brother of Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman), in the film Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters. He also began production for his lead role alongside Olivia Cooke in the horror film Ouija for Universal/Platinum Dunes at the end of 2013.

An alumnus of RADA's Shakespeare Summer School, Smith made his off Broadway debut in 2014, starring in the New York premiere of Simon Stephens' Punk Rock at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in the West Village. He played William Carlisle, a role originated by Tom Sturridge at the Lyric Hammersmith in 2010. The production and Smith's performance received favorable reviews. It was listed among The Guardian's and The New York Times' "Best of 2014" lists - David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "In such an exemplary cast, it's unfair to single out any one of the seven principal actors for special praise. But Smith, best known for HBO's Big Love, is sad, scary and transfixing. Whatever you get out of the play, Cullman's taut production serves as a knockout ensemble showcase for a new generation of gifted stage actors." The production was nominated for both OBIE and Drama League Awards.

In 2015, Smith was seen in a cameo role in Terminator Genisys. He will make his first appearance on HBO since wrapping Big Love in a significant arc on Martin Scorsese's Vinyl, opposite Bobby Cannavale, Olivia Wilde, and Ray Romano. Vinyl premiered on February 14, 2016.

Personal life

In 2003, at the age of 18, Smith traveled to Morocco with the U.K. based charity Peace Child International as the member of a cast of actor/delegates promoting peace and tolerance through musical and dramatic performances. The show was performed in English, French, and Arabic - over the course of their eight-week tour they performed in all provinces of the country.

After completing the 5th and final season of Big Love, Smith traveled to Europe. He rented an apartment in Paris and studied French at Alliance Francaise for six months. He returned to North America to work on the film Treading Water, opposite Zoë Kravitz, at the end of 2011.

Smith purchased a home in New Orleans after falling in love with the city while filming Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters there in 2012.

He is a citizen of Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

He started a relationship with Ariel Maker in 2015 and ended at the beginning of 2016

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	The X-Files	The Pitcher	Episode: "Home"
1997	The Death Game	Tristan
1998	The Outer Limits	Douglas	Episode: In to Zone
1999	Blast from the Past	Adam (age 11)
2001	Family Law	Patrick Samson	Episode: Sex,Lies, and Internet
2002	Trancers 6	Punk #1
2002	Partners in Action	Teddy	Credited as Doug Smith
2003	Lock her Room	Johnny	Short
2003	Out There	Reilly Evans
2003	Hangman's Curse	Elijah Springfield
2003	Stuck in the Movie with You	Sam	TV movie
2003	Cold Case	16 year old Ryan Bayes	Episode: Churchgoing People
2004	Everwood	Gavin Curtis	Episode: Controlling Interest
2004	Joan of Arcadia	Daniel Shoalar	Episode: State of Grace
2004	The Guardian	Jay	Episode: Without Consent
2004	CSI: Miami	Jason Henderson	Episode: Invasion
2004	Sleepover	Gregg
2005	Rock the Paint	Josh
2005	Santa's Slay	Nicolas Yuleson
2006	Crossing Jordan	Steven Reynolds	Episode: Mysterious Ways
2006	Close to Home	Colin Parks	Episode: The Shots
2006	Citizen Duane	Duane Balfour
2006	State's Evidence	Scott
2006–2007	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Marlon West
2006–2011	Big Love	Ben Henrickson
2007	Remember the Daze	Pete
2009	Someday We Will Get Married	James	Short
2009	Hawthorne	Curtis	Episode: Night Moves
2010	Flashpoint	Carlton Hayward	Episode: Whatever it Takes
2011	Margene's Blog	Ben Henrickson	Episode: Girls Gotta Dance
2012	Antiviral	Edward Porris
2013	The Boy who Smells like Fish	Mica
2013	Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters	Tyson
2013	Rookie Blue	Chuck	Episode: You Are Here
2014	Hard Drive	Ditch
2014	Stage Fright	Buddy Swanson
2014	Ouija	Pete
2015	Terminator Genisys	Eric Thompson
2016	Vinyl	Gary Giombetta	Recurring Role
2016	Miss Sloane	Alex
2017	When We Rise	Young Man	5 episodes
2017	The Bye Bye Man	Elliot
2017	Bottom of the World	Alex

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
2005	Young Artist Award	Best Performance in a Feature Film	Sleepover	Nominated

External links

• Douglas Smith at IMDb