Kevin Zegers

**Kevin Joseph Zegers** (born September 19, 1984) is a Canadian actor and model.

## Early Life

Zegers was born in Woodstock, Ontario to parents Jim and Mary-Ellen Zegers. He has two sisters, Krista and Katie. He is of Dutch descent; all four of his grandparents were born in the Netherlands.

He attended St Mary's Catholic High School in Woodstock.

## Career

### Early Work

Zegers began his performing career at the age of six, appearing in about thirty television commercials. His first film role was at the age of seven, in a small part in the Michael J. Fox comedy Life with Mikey, playing a younger version of Fox's character. Subsequently, he made a guest appearance on the acclaimed science fiction series The X-Files, playing a stigmatic child, Kevin Kryder, in the 1995 episode "Revelations" and had a recurring role on the Canadian TV series Traders. During this time, he appeared in several made-for-television films, including Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story, The Silence of Adultery and Rose Hill, and as Noah Thompson in the "Let's Get Invisible!" episode of Goosebumps.

His career received a major boost when he won the role of Josh Framm in Aid Bud, a film about a lonely boy who befriends a basketball-playing dog. Air Bud launched a franchise, with four sequels. Zegers appeared in four of the films, as well as a similar title, MVP: Most Valuable Primate, which featured a hockey-playing chimp.

Around that time, he starred in other family-friendly fare, including A Call To Remember with Joe Mantegna, Nico the Unicorn with Elisha Cuthbert, Treasure Island with Jack Palance and Time Share with Nastassja Kinski. He also played a boy who discovers he is a clone in the TV series So Weird. While also headlining numerous family/animal films, between 1997 and 2004, Zegers had starring or co-starring roles in many low-budget horror films, often Canadian, including Shadow Builder, Komodo, Wrong Turn, Fear of the Dark and The Hollow.

In Four Days, Zegers played a nameless boy devoted to his bank-robber father. He also appeared in the short-lived American television series Titans, opposite Yasmine Bleeth, for which he was chosen by producer Aaron Spelling. It was his first regular television series role. Zegers had previously worked with Bleeth in the 1999 film It Came from the Sky, where he played a mentally disabled child visited by an angel-like couple. He co-starred with Harry Hamlin in Sex, Lies & Obsession, a Lifetime Network film about sex addiction, and with Gena Rowlands and James Caan in The Incredibles Mrs. Ritchie, a television film drama that won three Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Children/Youth/Family Special, Outstanding Performer and Outstanding Writing.

In the summer of 2003, he filmed the drama Some Things That Stay at the same time as the remake of Dawn of the Dead, shuttling across Canada between sets. Around this time, he also continued his television work, appearing on Smallville in 2003 and House in 2004.

### 2005-present

In 2005, he had a major role in the Academy Award-nominated independent film Transamerica, co-starring Felicity Huffman. Zegers' performance as Toby Osbourne, the street-hustling bisexual son of a trans woman was praised by several critics and he won the Trophée Chopard for Male Relevation at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Director Duncan Tucker said he had to overcome his initial wariness over Zegers' good loks before casting him for the role. Variety's reviewer wrote that "Zegers... finds multiple dimensions in pic's potentially most clichéd character...," and The Hollywood Reporter's critic said, "As a boy who considers sex his chief talent, Zegers... conveys Toby's essential sweetness and hunger for real affection, making him much more than just a vain or damaged kid."

Also in 2005, he appeared with Shailene Woodley in Felicity: An American Girl Adventure, a television film set in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1775, based on the American Girl book series. He played 15-year-old Benjamin "Ben" Davidson, an apprentice at a shop owned by Felicity's father. In 2006, Zegers played supervillain Conscussion in the comedy Zoom, with Tim Allen and had the lead role opposite Samaire Armstrong in the romantic comedy It's a Boy Girl Thing. He guest-starred as Damien Dalgaard in Gossip Girl from 2009 to 2010 and returned again in late 2010 for multiple episodes throughout Season 4. He appeared in Rock Mafia's 2010 musoc video "The Big Bang" and in 2012, played the male protagonist in the television series Titanic: Blood and Steel.

Zegers portrayed Alec Lightwood in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. He joined the cast of Fear the Walking Dead for the series' fourth season.

## Personal Life

Zegers is active in sports, especially basketball, ice hockey and golf. He played on the Hollywood Knights celebrity basketball team, raising money for local Los Angeles schools.

### Marriages and Children

In August 2013, Zegers married Jaime Feld, an agent. The couple had twin girls in August 2015.