Biography for
Joseph Mazzello More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

21 September 1983, Rhinebeck, New York, USA

Birth Name

Joseph Mazzello III

Nickname

Joe

Height

5' 9" (1.75 m)

Mini Biography

Born in Rhinebeck, New York on September, 21, 1983. He got into acting when he was 5 years old after his sister appeared in 30 some odd commercials. Since then, he has acted opposite some of the best actors in Hollywood, as a bright, expressive actor with complexity and sensitivity and emotion. Recently he attended Film School at USC and got his degree in Cinema/Television Production. He plans on continuing is acting career while also following his aspirations of becoming a director.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous

Trivia

His parents own and operate a dance studio

Radio Flyer (1992) began filming on Joe's 7th birthday.

Steven Spielberg swapped the ages of the children in Jurassic Park (1993) so Joe could play Tim

Brother of John Mazzello, also has an older sister, Mary.

He was originally going to play Jack, Robin Williams' son in Hook (1991), but he was too small, so Steven Spielberg went out of his way to the point of changing the script for Jurassic Park (1993), to let him play Tim.

Raised in Hyde Park, New York.

Favorite movie is It's a Wonderful Life (1946).

Has a collection of 007 videos, and drew the faces of the 3 James Bond characters on paper, before Pierce Brosnan was Bond.

Was put under a contract in 1993 for Wartime Lies, a screenplay based on the novel by Louis Begley, under direction of the late director Stanley Kubrick. He was on the contract for two years. The movie was never made. It did however, lead to rumors of him being in AI Artificial Intellegence

Favorite actor is his idol, James Stewart.

His hometown of Hyde Park, NY is where Franklin Delano Roosevelt used to live.

Has been passionate about oldies music, and when he was growing up, his sister teased him for being old-fashioned.

Graduated from USC with a degree in cinema-television (2005)

When work began on Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) in 1993, he was cast as David.

Personal Quotes

"Make acting seem real and as if it weren't acting. Just make it real."

Where Are They Now

(May 2002) currently a student at University of Southern California, as a cinema-television major

(August 2005) Graduated from University of Southern California, with a degree in cinema-television, and is working on his directorial debut, "Matters of Life and Death".

Browse biographies section by name

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z