Early life

Sumpter was born in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, to Sandy (née Johnson) and Gary Sumpter. He has a twin sister, Jessica, and two other siblings, Owen (from his mother's previous marriage) and Jennifer. His family moved to his mother's hometown, Mount Sterling, Kentucky, when he was ten months old.

Career

When Sumpter was 11, he entered International Modeling and Talent Association and started his modeling in Kentucky. He also won Pre-Teen Male Model of the Year, where he signed with Mark Robert as his personal manager. Sumpter then decided to move back to Los Angeles, California with his family and start acting afterwards.

Sumpter's first movie role was in the 2001 film Frailty as the young Adam Mieks seen in flashbacks (played as an adult by the film's star Matthew McConaughey). Sumpter received a Saturn Award nomination for "Best Performance by a Younger Actor" for his performance. Following that, he appeared with Danny Glover in the Showtime film Just a Dream, for which he received a Young Artist Award for "Best Performance in a TV Movie, Mini-Series or Special - Leading Young Actor". His next film was Local Boys, a family surfing drama, with Mark Harmon and Eric Christian Olsen.

In July 2002, at age 13, Sumpter was selected for the role of Peter Pan. Sumpter did nearly all of his stunts for the film himself. To prepare, he says he practiced sword fighting as much as five hours a day, as well as training in gymnastics and lifting weights. While filming in Australia, he supplemented his training with cricket and surfing. Sumpter grew several inches while in the film's production, requiring staging tricks to retain Captain Hook's height advantage over Peter in face-to-face scenes late in the process. Producer Lucy Fisher also said that, "The window he flies out of had to be enlarged twice." Sumpter won both a Saturn and Young Artist Award for the film.

In the fall of 2004 he starred in the TV series Clubhouse as a boy who gets his dream job of working as a batboy for a New York City major league baseball team. The series was canceled by CBS after five episodes; all 11 episodes made have since been broadcast on cable/satellite channels. He then starred in Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life, a Lifetime Channel movie about a popular teenager whose life is ruined by an addiction to internet pornography.

Sumpter spent the summer of 2005 in Oregon filming the teen comedy The Sasquatch Gang (a.k.a. The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang), released in November 2006. He had a small role in the film An American Crime, which played on Showtime in 2008 before going to DVD. He appeared in an episode of CSI: Miami as the boyfriend of a girl whose parents are murdered.

He completed filming roles in the coming-of-age comedy Calvin Marshall, the family comedy You're So Cupid, Soul Surfer and Death and Cremation.

Sumpter was a co-host on The YOBI Show, an online reality contest show, with Danielle Ryan.

He appeared in the meteorological disaster film Into the Storm as Jacob Hodges, a young cameraman for the stormchasers.

Personal life

In December 2015 Sumpter announced on his Instagram account that he's engaged to model turned actress Lauren Pacheco.

Filmography

Film
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Frailty	Young Adam Meiks
2002	Local Boys	Skeeter Dobson
2003	Peter Pan	Peter Pan
2005	Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life	Justin Petersen
2006	The Sasquatch Gang	Gavin Gore
2007	An American Crime	Coy Hubbard
2009	Calvin Marshall	Caselli
2010	You're So Cupid	Connor Miller
	Death and Cremation	Jarod Leary
2011	Soul Surfer	Byron Blanchard
2012	Excision	Adam
	Hiding	Brett
2013	The Culling	Tyler
2014	Animal	Matt
	Into the Storm	Jacob Hodges
2015	The Squeeze	Augie
	Take Down	Kyle Hartmann
Television Films
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Murphy's Dozen	Sean
2002	Just a Dream	Henry Sturbuck
2005	Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life	Justin Petersen
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Raising Dad	Henry	1 Episode
2002	ER	Nathan	1 Episode
2002	Strong Medicine	Randy	1 Episode
2004-2005	Clubhouse	Pete Young	Lead Role
2007	CSI: Miami	Zach Griffith	1 Episode
2008-2010	Friday Night Lights	J.D. McCoy	Recurring; Season 3-4
2012	The Glades	Dane Westing	1 Episode
2015	Stitchers	Devon/Gavin	1 episode

Awards

Awards
Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
2000	IMTA Award	Pre-Teen Male Model of the Year	-	Won
2003	Young Artist Award	Best Performance in a TV Movie, Mini-series or Special - Leading Young Actor	Just a Dream	Won
2003	Saturn Award	Best Performance by a Younger Actor	Frailty	Nominated
2004	Young Artist Award	Best Performance in a Feature Film - Leading Young Actor	Peter Pan	Won
2004	Saturn Award	Best Performance by a Younger Actor	Peter Pan	Won
2004	Phoenix Film Critics Society Award	Best Performance by a Youth in a Lead or Supporting Role - Male	Peter Pan	Nominated
2006	Young Artist Award	Best Performance in a TV Movie, Mini-series or Special (Comedy or Drama) - Leading Young Actor	Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life	Nominated
2009	Change The World Award	Youth for Humanity Award, Male	-	Honored

[ Source: Wikipedia ]