Jake Matthew Lloyd was born in Fort Collins, Colorado, and is the son of entertainment agent Lisa Riley and brother of Madison Broadbent. Lloyd gained worldwide fame when he was chosen by George Lucas to play the young Anakin Skywalker in the 1999 film Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. In 2012, he announced that he was directing a documentary highlighting the Tibetan refugees in India, who escape persecution by the Chinese government.
About Jake Lloyd in brief
Jake Matthew Lloyd was born in Fort Collins, Colorado, and is the son of entertainment agent Lisa Riley and brother of Madison Broadbent. Lloyd began his acting career in 1996, playing Jimmy Sweet in four episodes of ER. He got his big break playing Jamie Langston in Jingle All the Way. Lloyd gained worldwide fame when he was chosen by George Lucas to play the young Anakin Skywalker in the 1999 film Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.
In 2012, he announced that he was directing a documentary highlighting the Tibetan refugees in India, who escape persecution by the Chinese government. In March 2015, police responded to an alleged assault by Lloyd on his mother Lisa Riley. In April 2016, after being held for 10 months awaiting trial in Colleton County Detention Center, Lloyd was transferred from jail to a psychiatric facility due to his schizophrenia diagnosis.
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