Tye Kayle Sheridan (born November 11, 1996) is an American actor and producer. He is best known for playing the young Scott Summers / Cyclops in the reboot ''X-Men'' film series (2016–2019), as well as Wade Watts in ''

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'' (2018) and Ben Goudy in '' Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse'' (2015). Sheridan made his feature film debut in

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'' The Tree of Life'' (2011) and had his first leading role in

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's film '' Mud'' (2012). He also co-starred in

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's drama '' Joe'' (2013) and the period thriller '' The Stanford Prison Experiment'' (2015). In 2020 he co-founded AI production tools company Wonder Dynamics with visual effects artist Nikola Todorovic.

Early life

Sheridan was born in

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. His mother, Stephanie (Wright) Sheridan, owns a beauty salon, and his father, Bryan Sheridan, is a driver for UPS. He has a younger sister, Madison. He was enrolled in the Elkhart Independent School District until his film career became a priority focus when he was 16 years old, and he received tutoring on film sets.

Career

Sheridan made his feature film debut in the

art film '' The Tree of Life'' (2011), with

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, and

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, after an almost year-long casting search involving more than 10,000 children from Texas and Oklahoma. The film premiered at the

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, and went on to be awarded the

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and nominated for the

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. In 2012, he played the leading role of Ellis in

' '' Mud'' opposite

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and

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. The

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premiered at the

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and Sheridan received a Critics' Choice Award nomination. Sheridan played Gary Jones in the film '' Joe'', which stars

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playing an ex-con who meets a 15-year-old boy, the eldest child in a homeless family headed by an alcoholic father, and is faced with the choice of redemption or ruin. For his role he received the

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for best upcoming young actor at the

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. In 2015, Sheridan starred in the three films that premiered at the

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. He co-starred opposite

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and

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in the drama ''

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'', played a prisoner in the film adaptation of '' The Stanford Prison Experiment'', and appeared in Rodrigo Garcia's drama ''

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'' opposite

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, released May 2016. That year, he also had a supporting role in the film adaptation of Gillian Flynn's '' Dark Places'' and the leading role in the horror comedy '' Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse''. Sheridan played the mutant Scott Summers/Cyclops in the film '' X-Men: Apocalypse'' (2016), released on May 27, 2016. In 2017, Sheridan starred in the war drama ''

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'' (2017), opposite

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, and

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. Also that year, Sheridan co-starred with

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in ''

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'', a film written and directed by Kyle Wilamowski. In 2018, Sheridan played Wade Watts, a.k.a. Parzival, the lead character, in

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's science fiction blockbuster film ''

.'' He then reprised the role of Scott Summers/Cyclops in the 2019 film '' Dark Phoenix''. In 2020, Sheridan took a voice role in the "Face of the Franchise" mode of ''

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''. In 2021, Sheridan co-starred in the

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thriller '' Voyagers'' (2021) with

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, and

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Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Awards and nominations

References

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