Early life

Kelley was born and raised in a western suburb of Chicago, Glen Ellyn, Illinois. He is the fifth eldest of 15 siblings (9 daughters and 6 sons), and was raised as a Lutheran.

When he was two, his mother took him and five of his siblings to Chicago to meet an agent. Kelley started appearing in commercials and gained his first role in a movie when he was in first grade. Due to his job, he was home schooled during his last two years of high school. When he turned 18, he moved to Los Angeles. He dated model Stephanie Cook (Stefunny Cee).

Career

In 2002, he had a supporting role in Stolen Summer, which was a film made during Project Greenlight. He also played the role of Ryan James in two episodes of Smallville.

Kelley won an Independent Spirit Award for his performance in Mean Creek in 2004. Also in 2004 he played a lead role in the movie The Dust Factory. In 2006, Kelley appeared in the film Letters from Iwo Jima as a marine. He also played Roy, a great-nephew of Butch Cassidy, in Outlaw Trail: The Treasure of Butch Cassidy.

He played a leading role in the movie Prayers for Bobby alongside Sigourney Weaver, which premiered in January 2009 on Lifetime. In November, he played the role of Ben Tennyson in Ben 10: Alien Swarm. In January 2012, Kelley was in the TV movie Sexting in Suburbia, with Liz Vassey and Jenn Proske. In 2014 Kelley joined the cast of the MTV show Teen Wolf as Jordan Parrish, a young deputy whose supernatural nature sparked an ongoing media buzz as neither audience nor Kelley himself know what sort of creature Parrish is but later found out that he is a Hellhound in the summer finale of season five.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Roommates	Mo
1999	Charming Billy	10-year-old Duane
2002	Stolen Summer	Seamus O'Malley
2002	Stray Dogs	J. Fred Carter
2004	Mean Creek	Clyde
2004	The Dust Factory	Ryan Flynn
2006	Outlaw Trail: The Treasure of Butch Cassidy	Roy Parker
2006	Letters from Iwo Jima	Marine #2
2006	Still Green	Alan
2015	War Pigs	William York

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Early Edition	Tom Stone	TV series, episode 2x18
2002	Smallville	Ryan James	TV series, 2 episodes
2005	Boston Legal	Stuart Milch	TV series, episode 1x16
2008	Cold Case	Curt Fitzpatrick	TV series, episode 5x12
2008	Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles	Young Derek Reese	TV series, episode 1x09
2008	Women's Murder Club	Charlie Gifford	TV series, episode 1x12
2009	Ghost Whisperer	Devin Bancroft	TV series, episode 4x11
2009	Prayers for Bobby	Bobby Griffith	TV movie
2009	Ben 10: Alien Swarm	Ben Tennyson	TV movie
2009	Mending Fences	Chuck Bentley	TV movie
2009	Law & Order: SVU	Enzo Cook	TV series, episode 11x07
2009	Destroy Build Destroy: "Ben 10: Alien Swarm vs. Dude, What Would Happen"	Himself
2012	Sexting in Suburbia	Mark Carey	TV movie
2014-present	Teen Wolf	Jordan Parrish	TV series

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
2005	Independent Spirit Awards	Special Distinction Award	Mean Creek	Won
2007	Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival	Best Ensemble	Still Green	Won
2009	Online Film & Television Association Award	Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture or Miniseries	Prayers for Bobby	Nominated

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