The Canadian little one actor-turned-minor heartthrob Kevin Zegers inevitably recalls an old Tom Yacht, with his -footnote and surreal handsomeness. These photogenic, audience-pleasing qualities helped to carry Zegers through his adolescent screen vocation, with a steady series of roles in parentage-friendly films. Zegers then proved himself capable of sustaining more experienced, full-grown-oriented Hollywood turns, signified by his fine contribution to the pansexual comedy drama Tran... samerica (2005).

Born September 19, 1984, into a blue-collar forebears (his dad worked in a lime quarry), Zegers attended Holy Strain French immersion opinion in his hometown of Woodstock, Ontario, and received an invite at eight years unused to participate in a London vogue express as a young man inimitable. Zegers did a of these events, then talked his parents into letting him audition an eye to a Toronto-based endowment agent; not long after, Zegers landed his first screen role, as a younger interpretation of Michael J. Fox's bat in James Lapine's uneven comedy drama Autobiography with Mikey (1993), and spent the weight of the next ten years starring in innumerable physical-oriented comedies -- entire lot from Air Bud and its sequels to Virginia's Cover to Nico the Unicorn and MVP: Most Valuable Primate. Lest he be typecast, no matter how, Zegers demonstrated his versatility cranny of this epoch with irregular turns in hellish horror outings and telemovies as jet. Zegers later recalled how, from the beginning to the end of this period, he honed his know-how to vastness up the cardinal strengths and weaknesses of a create, and not later than his early twenties, he placed a high regard on this instinct, often rejecting screenplays on the constituent of poor quality. Transamerica (which Zegers reportedly comprehend and then fell in liking with at first peek) marked the actor's first place dramatic leap away from foetus and maturing-oriented roles. He later told interviewer Selma Blair that he refused to be turned down suitable the hint at, and stalked commander Duncan Tucker concerning weeks on end after an initial rejection from the film, until Tucker recanted. In that well-received photograph, Zegers plays Toby, the extensive-estranged puerile-in arrears son of pre-operative transsexual Bree (christened Stanley and portrayed beside Felicity Huffman). Toby reconnects with his papa to a road trip -- just as Bree is about to undergo a invariable sex-become artisan. Together, they lay out idle for Los Angeles -- Bree to induce her procedure and Toby to offset it as a porn star. Zegers proved himself cranny worthy of the part; few critics who praised the film failed to take out the actor's show. Unfortunately, Zegers followed this with an detrimental-advised retread of his career origins -- in front in the critically reviled, Tim Allen-starring line comedy Zoom, then in the Nick Hurran-directed teen steam It's a Guy Freulein Thing (both 2006) -- leading many of the actor's fans to grow agitated on account of additional Zegers work on the level of Transamerica.

Not long after, he signed destined for a peewee role in more large fare: the eagerly anticipated, female-driven apparel drama The Jane Austen Book Club (2007), directed via Robin Swicord and starring Amy Brenneman, Maria Bello, and Jimmy Smits.