Thomas Horn is an American actor. Born in 1997 in the American city of San Francisco in California, in the family of a pediatric oncologist and eye surgeon. His mother is a native of Croatia and he speaks Croatian fluently. He also knows Mandarin and Spanish well. Thomas has a younger brother. From early childhood, Horn dreamed of becoming an actor and in elementary school played the role of the old Grasshopper in the school production of James and the Giant Peach.
While studying in the sixth grade,
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Thomas Horn is an American actor. Born in 1997 in the American city of San Francisco in California, in the family of a pediatric oncologist and eye surgeon. His mother is a native of Croatia and he speaks Croatian fluently. He also knows Mandarin and Spanish well. Thomas has a younger brother. From early childhood, Horn dreamed of becoming an actor and in elementary school played the role of the old Grasshopper in the school production of James and the Giant Peach.
While studying in the sixth grade, the future actor participated in the competition “National Geographical Bee”, where he took third place.
In 2010, the boy during “Children’s Week” won the popular quiz game Jeopardy, where he won thirty-one thousand dollars. It was then that the talented boy was noticed by the famous producer Scott Rudin and offered him to undergo screen tests for the role of Oscar Shell in the dramatic film directed by Stephen Daldry.
" Extremely loud and incredibly close. . At the screen test, the young actor beat more than three thousand candidates for this role. The film was a brilliant debut of young talent. The film was released in the United States on December 25, 2011 in limited release, and appeared on big screens on January 20, 2012.
The film was an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Jonathan Safran Foer. Together with the young actor, such famous actors as