Jack Reynor

Jack Reynor (born January 23, 1992) is an American-born Irish actor. His notable roles include the lead in Lenny Abrahamson's film What Richard Did (2012), for which he won an IFTA Award for Best Film Actor; the blockbuster Transformers: Age of Extinction; Glassland, for which he won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting at the Sundance Film Festival; Macbeth; and Sing Street. 2Early life Reynor was born in Longmont, Colorado, and initially lived in Boulder with his mother, Tara, a native of Ireland. When he was two years old, he moved with her to Valleymount, County Wicklow, Ireland. He went to primary school in the local village and spent his formative years in the rural countryside with his mother and maternal grandparents, Pat and Damien Reynor. His interest in acting began when he played an altar boy on the set of Country, directed by Kevin Liddy, in 1999. He moved to Dublin in 2004 to attend Belvedere College, a private Jesuit school, where he performed onstage in numerous theatrical productions. 2Career In early 2010, he was cast as Robbie, aka 'the boy next door', in Kirsten Sheridan's live format, unscripted Dollhouse, which premiered at Berlinale 2012. He depicted Richard Karlsen in Lenny Abrahamson's feature What Richard Did, which screened at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival. The film portrays the fall of a high school rugby star and golden boy whose world unravels after his involvement in an act of careless violenc