Iain Armitage

Iain Armitage is an American child actor. He is best known for his starring role as Sheldon Cooper in Young Sheldon. 2Life Armitage resides in Arlington, Virginia, and is the son of actor Euan Morton and theater producer Lee Armitage. He is the grandson of former United States Deputy Secretary of State Richard Lee Armitage. 2Career In January 2017, Armitage starred in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ("Chasing Theo"), playing a young child, Theo Lachere, who has been kidnapped. He appeared in Impractical Jokers "Look Out Below", where he was talked to by Murr in "Who Let The Dogs Out?", in the second challenge of that episode. He played Ziggy Chapman in the HBO miniseries Big Little Lies and he appeared in The Glass Castle, a film adaptation of Jeannette Walls' memoir of the same name. In 2017 he was cast as 9-year old Sheldon Cooper in Young Sheldon, a prequel to the sitcom The Big Bang Theor