Early life

Jeremy Davies was born in Traverse City, Michigan, of Scottish and Welsh descent, the son of children's author Melvin Lyle "Mel" Boring. Davies is Jeremy's mother's maiden name, which he adopted as his professional name. He has a brother, Joshua, and two half-siblings, Zachery and Katrina, from his father's second marriage.

His parents separated when he was young, leaving Davies to relocate to Kansas with his mother until the mid-1970s, when she died of lupus. He went to live with his father and his stepmother in Santa Barbara, California, before moving to Rockford, Iowa in 1986, where he completed high school. He attended college at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in California.

Career

In 1992, he appeared on two episodes of The Wonder Years. He appeared in small roles in the NBC TV movie Shoot First: A Cop's Vengeance and in the pilot for the colonial-era sitcom 1775. He played a youth in the Showtime thriller Guncrazy and had a guest appearance on Melrose Place. In 1993, Davies was cast in a TV commercial for Subaru in which his character compares the car to punk rock. Numerous casting directors and industry forces noticed the commercial, and Davies found himself being sent feature film scripts. Critics embraced his performance in David O. Russell's debut film, the black comedy, Spanking the Monkey.

In 1998, he landed a pivotal role in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan as Timothy E. Upham, an American GI linguist in Normandy, recruited just after D-Day by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) to be the interpreter on a dangerous mission to rescue the film's eponymous paratrooper (Matt Damon). Davies' performance was well received, and he went on to star in several films, including CQ, Secretary and Solaris. In 2004, he portrayed Charles Manson in CBS's adaptation of Helter Skelter.

Davies appeared as a main cast member on Lost during its fourth and fifth seasons (2008-09), playing Daniel Faraday, an amnesiac physicist who comes to the island as part of a team hired by Charles Widmore. He guest starred in three episodes in Lost's sixth season. He had a recurring role on FX's Justified as Dickie Bennett, for which he earned a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2012. He was also nominated for the award in 2011. Davis is currently working in the History Channel's 2015 mini-series, Texas Rising, as Sergeant Ephraim Knowles.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Shoot First: A Cop's Vengeance	White Punk	TV movie
1992	Guncrazy	Bill
1992	1775	Scruffy Kid	Short film
1994	Spanking the Monkey	Ray Aibelli	Nominated—Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance
1994	Nell	Billy Fisher
1996	Twister	Brian Laurence
1997	Going All the Way	Williard 'Sonny' Burns
1997	The Locusts	Flyboy
1998	Saving Private Ryan	Cpl. Timothy P. Upham	Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Ensemble Cast Performance Nominated—Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Best Supporting Actor - Drama Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
1999	Ravenous	Pvt. Toffler
1999	The Florentine	Truby
2000	The Million Dollar Hotel	Tom Tom
2000	Up at the Villa	Karl Richter
2001	Investigating Sex	Oscar
2001	CQ	Paul
2001	The Atlantis Conspiracy	Flush	TV movie
2002	Teknolust	Sandy
2002	The Laramie Project	Jedadiah Schultz	TV movie Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film
2002	Secretary	Peter
2002	Searching for Paradise	Adam
2002	29 Palms	The Drifter
2002	Solaris	Snow	Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
2003	Dogville	Bill Henson
2004	Helter Skelter	Charles Manson	TV Film
2005	Manderlay	Niels
2007	Rescue Dawn	Gene
2010	It's Kind of a Funny Story	Smitty

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Dream On	Mugger #3	Episode: "No, I'm Just Happy to See You"
1992	General Hospital	Roger	Unknown episodes
1992	The Wonder Years	Eddie Horvath	2 episodes
1992	Melrose Place	Pete Stoller	Episode: "The Whole Truth"
2008-2010	Lost	Daniel Faraday	23 episodes Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television
2011-2015	Justified	Dickie Bennett	20 episodes Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series
2014	Hannibal	Peter Bernardone	2 episodes
2014	Constantine	Ritchie Simpson	Episodes: "Non Est Asylum" and "A Whole World Out There"
2015	Texas Rising	Sergeant Ephraim Knowles	Episodes: Series still in progress
2016	Lucifer	Nick Hoffman	Episode: "Lucifer, Stay. Good Devil"

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