Name Jadrien Steele | Role Actor | |
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Spouse Sarah Elizabeth Bagley (m. 2009) Parents Jerry Steele, Walanne Steele Movies The Mosquito Coast, The Secret Garden, Victoriana, Winter Fugue Similar People Peter Weir, River Phoenix, Michael Bakkensen, Sean Dugan, Kenric Green | ||
Jadrien Ford Steele (born November 22, 1974 in New York City) is an American actor, author, and sometime film director. As an actor, he is credited as Jadrien Steele. As an author he writes under the name J M Steele.
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Biography
He graduated from Princeton University, and later obtained a master's degree in Cinematography at the University of Southern California. He is the son of two New Yorkers, Walanne Steele (a broker) and Jerry Steele (an academic). As an infant he was cast in the long-running television soap opera Ryan's Hope, as the child character Little John Ryan. He played this role from 1975 to 1985, when he was 11 years old. In that year the role was re-cast, with 22-year-old Ash Adams taking over the role. However, Steele was to secure a major part the following year, through being cast in the role of Jerry Fox in the 1986 film The Mosquito Coast, where he starred alongside Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, and River Phoenix. He married Sarah Elizabeth Bagley in 2009.
Authorship
Steele has written two books for young adult readers. He has also written several short plays. One of these, Silent Mercury, was made into a short film, which Steele himself directed, and premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. In 2008 he both directed and acted in his own production of another of his short dramas, Just Make Believe.