Joshua Ryan Hutcherson is an American actor and producer. He landed his first major acting role as Nicky Harper in the 2002 pilot episode of House Blend. In 2011, he landed the leading role of Peeta Mellark in the box office record-setting film series The Hunger Games.
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Joshua Ryan Hutcherson is an American actor and producer. He landed his first major acting role as Nicky Harper in the 2002 pilot episode of House Blend. In 2011, he landed the leading role of Peeta Mellark in the box office record-setting film series The Hunger Games. His first film role was in Miracle Dogs on Animal Planet, followed by a motion-capture performance in The Polar Express and a voice-acting role in Howl’s Moving Castle. He has served as an executive producer in Detention, The Forger and Escobar: Paradise Lost, while also playing a lead role in each film. He is also heavily involved in the gay–straight alliance chapter called \”Straight But Not Narrow\”. His next role was a boy dressed as Robin in his first feature appearance, the independent film Splendor, which won the grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival. He also starred in the animated film Epic and the television film Wilder Days with Peter Falk and Tim Daly, playing a grandson who accompanies him on a turbulent road trip. He was born in Union, Kentucky on October 12, 1992, and is the elder son of Michelle, a former Delta Air Lines employee who now assists with Josh’s career, and Chris, an analyst for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. His parents, who were also born and raised in Kentucky, met in high school in Dry Ridge. He had one younger brother, Connor. He attended New Haven Elementary School in Union until he began his career at the age of nine, after which he began homeschooling, with his mother as his teacher.
He played on the high school’s soccer team and has been a keen sports enthusiast since, also displaying a passion for football and tennis. Most of his childhood was spent on film sets rather than in a classroom. He later said of his schooling experiences, ‘I hated it. Getting up at the same time every day and having to listen to teachers talk about things I could learn so much more easily on my own, I hated it’ He has expressed an interest in directing and producing, and has expressed a desire to direct and produce a number of films in the future. His father said that his son was compelled to perform for people from a very young age, possessing a personality that attracted people’s attention. In January 2002, he and his mother met acting coach Bob Luke, who travelled from New York City to Kentucky to meet them. Luke advised them to go to Los Angeles and begin auditioning Hutchersson for TV pilots. At the time, his only acting experience had been in a Kroger television commercial and a Vacation Bible School training film. For three years, he lived in Los Angeles’ Oakwood apartments, a housing community that accommodates young child actors and their families. He has a son, Connor, who is also an actor and has appeared in various television commercials and minor film and television roles, including ER and Becoming Glen.
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