Justin Chatwin

Chatwin began his career in 2001, at the age of 19, his film debut being in the musical comedy Josie and the Pussycats. After that, he had guest appearances in television series such as Smallville, Just Cause, Glory Days, and Mysterious Ways. He had supporting roles in the films Taking Lives and Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2. Chatwin gained recognition in 2004 for his role as Tyler McKay in the miniseries Traffic. Next, he portrayed Tom Cruise's son in the blockbuster War of the Worlds, directed by Steven Spielberg.[14] His performance in the film earned him a 'Breakthrough Award' from Hollywood Life Magazine.[15] In 2005 he was seen also in the independent black comedy The Chumscrubber, alongside Camilla Belle, Jamie Bell and Carrie-Anne Moss. Additionally, he played the son of Kevin Nealon's character in the Showtime series Weeds, appearing only in the pilot episode and the series finale. The following year he had a guest appearance in the ABC drama series Lost.

In 2007, The Invisible was released, a remake of the Swedish film Den Osynlige, which marked his first lead role.[16] Then he played a supporting role in Middle of Nowhere, a coming-of-age drama directed by John Stockwell, also starring Anton Yelchin, Eva Amurri and Susan Sarandon.[17] In 2009, Chatwin portrayed Goku in Dragonball Evolution, a big screen adaptation based on the Japanese Dragon Ball manga by Akira Toriyama.[18] He was set to reprise his role in a sequel, but due to the film's poor critical and financial performance, it was canceled.[19]

Chatwin alongside William H. Macy at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con to promote Shameless

In December 2009, Chatwin shot the Showtime pilot Shameless, starring opposite William H. Macy and Emmy Rossum (with whom he also starred in 2009's Dragonball Evolution). In April 2010, the network green-lit the show with a 12-episode order.[20][21] For three years, Chatwin was a series regular, playing Jimmy Lishman, Rossum's love interest. He returned for a cameo in the fourth season finale,[22] and appeared in the fifth season as a special guest star in the 6th and 7th episodes.[23] In 2013, Chatwin had a guest appearance in the third season of The Listener opposite Craig Olejnik.[24]

In 2015, he was cast as the lead in the TNT pilot Breed, about a young detective who hunts down a rare breed of flesh eating criminals.[25] The pilot did not get picked up to series.[26] After that, he secured a recurring role in the third season of Orphan Black, opposite Tatiana Maslany and Kristian Bruun.[27] Next year, Chatwin landed the role of Cameron Hawthorne in the CBS summer series American Gothic, starring alongside Antony Starr, Virginia Madsen and Megan Ketch.[28] By the end of the year, he was seen in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who in 2016 Christmas special "The Return of Doctor Mysterio".[29]

In 2017, Chatwin signed on for an ABC pilot entitled The Doomsday Project, about a group of brilliant people who are asked to dream up man-made disaster scenarios and their possible solutions. The pilot, directed by Joachim Rønning, was not picked up, but shortly after, it was announced that Sony Pictures Television was considering a series order for the project.[30] Couple of months later, VJ Boyd, the co-writer of the screenplay, confirmed the idea was dropped too.[31]

Since 2019, Chatwin has starred as Erik Wallace in the ongoing television series Another Life.[32]

In 2011, Chatwin starred in the canadian film Funkytown, alongside Patrick Huard and Paul Doucet.[33] He also made a short film, Brink, written and directed by Shawn Christensen, who was accepted at the Tribeca Film Festival.[34]

Chatwin subsequently appeared in the sci-fi musical Bang Bang Baby (2014), opposite Peter Stormare and Jane Levy.[35] His performance in the movie earned him a nomination for Best actor in a supporting role at the Canadian Screen Awards.[36] The romantic comedy No Stranger Than Love (2015), with Alison Brie and Colin Hanks,[37] closed the 16th annual Newport Beach Film Festival.[38] Next, he played a troubled man in searching for his bike in The Cycle. Written and directed by Joey Indrieri, the short film has Addison Timlin playing the female lead.[39]

In 2016, Chatwin had appearances in four indie films: the drug thriller Urge, alongside Pierce Brosnan and Ashley Greene,[40] the comedy Unleashed,[41] who won the Audience Award at the Mill Valley Film Festival,[42] the romantic drama One Night,[43] and Poor Boy, Robert Scott Wildes' western, in which he teamed up again with Lou Taylor Pucci, after they worked on The Chumscrubber.[44]

In 2017, he portrayed Hugh Jay Linder in the film adaptation of Nancy Pickard's novel The Scent of Rain and Lightning,[45] and played a supporting role in indie drama We Don’t Belong Here, sharing the screen with Riley Keough, and again with Anton Yelchin.[46] He also had a cameo role in the action-comedy CHiPs.

More recently, Chatwin starred in Crackle’s original movie In the Cloud alongside Gabriel Byrne,[47] and in the dramatic thriller The Assassin's Code with Peter Stormare,[48] as well in the coming-of-age drama Summer Night, directed by Joseph Cross in his directorial debut.[49] In 2020, he will appear in the romantic crime film Die in a Gunfight, co-starring opposite Diego Boneta, Alexandra Daddario and Travis Fimmel. In addition, Chatwin is attached to star in the upcoming In the Lost Lands, a fantasy-adventure film based on three short stories by A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin.[50]

Chatwin's off-Broadway debut occurred in 2006 in Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's play Dark Matters at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. Directed by Trip Cullman, the story centers on the dysfunctional Cleary family, whose limits are pushed even further when the mother goes missing and suddenly reappears, talking about strange visions and extraterrestrial life. He starred as Jeremy, the eccentric, but intelligent 16-year-old son of Michael (Reed Birney) and Bridget (Elizabeth Marvel). The play ran from November 10 to December 22.[51][52][53]

The following year, Chatwin acted in Elizabeth Meriwether’s The Mistakes Madeline Made at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, Colorado. Directed by Jamie Wollrab, the cast includes Johnny Lewis, Zach Shields and Greta Seacat. The story is about a young woman, Edna (Shannon Woodward), who works as a personal assistant. After the death of her brother, she begins to develop ablutophobia, a fear of bathing.[54] He plays Wilson, Edna’s co-worker, "with lots of nervous energy, and generates laughs along the way."[55]

In 2009, Chatwin teamed up again with Jamie Wollrab to star in Adam Rapp's three-person play Red Light Winter at the Dairy Arts Center, during Boulder International Fringe Festival. John Markland directed the story about two friends, Matt (Wollrab) and Davis (Chatwin), who are caught in a strange love triangle with Christina (Anna Rose Hopkins), a young prostitute they encounter in Amsterdam.[56][57]

Chatwin appeared in the music videos for David Vertesi's "Learn to Run", Brad Carter's "Doin' Wrong with You", and Hayley Taylor's "Slow Motion".

Chatwin featured in the 2013 documentary Isolated, written and directed by Justin Le Pera, about a group of surfers in search of untouched waves. Ryan Phillippe served as narrator and executive producer.[58] He will appear in the upcoming docuseries Freedom is a Full Tank, which is currently in post-production. Directed by Drew Burbridge, the project recounts his journey from Vancouver to South America on motorcycle.[59][60]

In 2015, he recorded alongside Jake Abel and Alexandra Daddario, the audio version of Celeritas, a screenplay who featured on 2014 Black List.[61]