Tye Sheridan

Actor / Producer, Tye Sheridan has emerged as one of Hollywood’s most exciting leading men. Sheridan had almost no acting experience when he made his film debut at the age of 14 in Terrence Malick’s “Tree of Life,” opposite Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, and Jessica Chastain.  The film premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d’Or.  It also received three Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture.  For his role, Sheridan was also featured in IndieWire’s “Top 25 Filmmakers and Actors” of 2011. Since then, Sheridan has amassed an impressive resume of intense, nuanced and thoughtful characters, alongside the most creative filmmakers of our time.

Following his big screen debut in “Tree of Life” Sheridan captured the attention of audiences and critics alike when he starred as Ellis in the Jeff Nichol’s directed film “Mud” opposite Matthew McCanaughey and Reese Witherspoon- which won the 2014 Film Independent Robert Altman Award- and as Gary in the David Gordon Green directed film “Joe”, which stars Nicolas Cage as 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 this role he received the Marcello Mastroianni Award for best upcoming young actor at the 70th Venice International Film Festival in 2013. It was these roles that confirmed what everyone already suspected: that you don’t see this type of talent very often and in 2014, he was listed as one of Variety’s “10 Actors to Watch”. Sheridan has since continued to capture everyone’s attention.

In 2015, Sheridan starred in the three films that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. He co-starred opposite Gregg Turkington and Michael Cera in the drama “Entertainment”, played a prisoner in the film adaptation of “The Stanford Prison Experiment”, and appeared in Rodrigo Garcia's drama “Last Days in the Desert opposite Ewan McGregor. That year, he also had a supporting role in the film adaptation of Gillian Flynn's “Dark Places” opposite Charlize Theron and the leading role in the horror comedy “Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse” for Paramount Pictures and could be seen opposite John Travolta in the crime thriller “The Forger” in 2014.

Some of his earlier work includes his reprised role as Scott Summers/Cyclops in the latest installment of the X-Men franchise, “X-Men: Dark Phoenix” for which he received a Kids’ Choice Award nomination, and also starred in Spielberg’s 2018 adaptation of Ernest Cline’s best-seller “Ready Player One” for Warner Bros. The only time Wade Watts (Sheridan) truly feels alive is when he escapes to the OASIS, an immersive virtual universe where most of humanity spends their days. The OASIS was created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance), who left his immense fortune and total control of the Oasis to the winner of a three-part contest he designed to find a worthy heir. When Wade conquers the first challenge of the reality-bending treasure hunt, he and his friends-aka the High Five-are hurled into a fantastical universe of discovery and danger to save the OASIS. For this role, which included motion capture performances, Sheridan was nominated for MTV Movie + TV Awards and Teen Choice Awards. It was announced that Cline has begun work on the sequel to Ready Player One.

In addition to big budget blockbusters, Sheridan has also been seen leading a handful of character-driven independent films including “The Night Clerk”, which follows a hotel clerk (Sheridan) who becomes the prime suspect when a woman is murdered during his shift. As the police investigation closes in, he makes a personal connection with a guest (Ana de Armas) -- but soon realizes he must stop the killer before she becomes the next victim; Alexandre Moors’ film adaptation of Kevin Power’s novel “The Yellow Birds”, opposite Jennifer Aniston and Jack Huston; the psychological thriller “Detour,” opposite Emory Cohen and Bel Powley, Gravitas Ventures’ “Age Out”, which follows a young drifter (Sheridan) fresh out of foster care at age 18, who turns to petty crime to survive and discovers an impossible love in an unlikely friend (Imogen Poots) and “The Mountain”, opposite Jeff Goldblum, which is the story of a young man (Sheridan), who after losing his mother, goes to work with a doctor specializing in lobotomies and therapies. The film premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.

More recently, Sheridan can be seen in George Clooney’s coming-of-age drama, “The Tender Bar”, starring as J.R. opposite Ben Affleck. The film is an adaptation of the 2005 memoir of the same name by J.R. Moehringer, and recounts Moehringer's life growing up on Long Island. Sheridan also starred in Paul Schrader’s, “The Card Counter”, which premiered at 78th Venice International Film Festival, opposite Oscar Isaac and Tiffany Haddish. William Tell (Oscar Isaac) is a gambler and former serviceman who sets out to reform a young Cirk (Sheridan) seeking revenge on a mutual enemy from their past. Tell just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk, a vulnerable and angry young man seeking help to execute his plan for revenge on a military colonel. Tell sees a chance at redemption through his relationship with Cirk.

Sheridan is as creative and innovative off-camera as he is on. In 2017, he founded, alongside Nikola Todorovic, Wonder Dynamics -- formerly announced as Aether, Inc. – who is creating and utilizing cutting-edge technologies and original content to reimagine storytelling. Focused on the future of filmmaking, Wonder Dynamics' mission is to revolutionize the production and post-production process by leveraging state-of-the-art AI in order to deliver CG and VFX elements faster and at a significantly lower price point.