-
Name: Devon Sawa
-
Date of Birth:
September 07, 1978
-
Place of Birth:
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Mini-bio:
Blonde, blue-eyed, and bearing the kind of glossy looks that lend themselves equally to teen idoldom and Noxema spokesmanship, Devon Sawa was one of the young actors to coast into the pop culture cons... read moreciousness on the late-1990s wave of Hollywood teensploitation. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, on September 7, 1978, Sawa developed an interest in acting when he appeared in a few kindergarten plays. Following work in local theatrical productions, the young actor secured an agent and began making appearances on various Canadian TV shows. Tiring of television, he broke into film with the 1994 kids' comedy Little Giants, in which he played the quarterback of a misfit football team.A small but apparently very memorable role as the human incarnation of the titular ghost in Casper (1995) made Sawa immensely popular with any number of teenage girls; his popularity received an additional boost that same year, thanks to his role as the neighborhood bully who locks lips with Christina Ricci in Now and Then (the two had previously shared a screen kiss in Casper). More work followed, with Sawa starring in such straight-to-video releases as The Boys Club (1996) and Wild America (1997). Sawa got his first real chance to carry a mainstream movie with the 1999 Idle Hands. A teen horror-comedy that took advantage of the genre craze originally inspired by the Scream series, it starred Sawa as a young man whose right hand gets possessed by a homicidal demon. Unfortunately, the film was released shortly before the Columbine High School tragedy; surprisingly enough, audiences, sickened by the recent spate of real-life teen violence, stayed away in droves. The following year, Sawa was given another crack at film stardom with Final Destination, a psychological thriller that featured the young actor as a high school student who discovers that cheating death is a very tricky matter indeed. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi
Devon Sawa mini-bio: Devon Edward Sawa is a Canadian actor. Sawa was born to a Polish father and a Canadian mother in Vancouver, British Columbia. He was a very successful teen star during the 1990s. His most famous film credits have been Casper, Idle Hands, and the 2000 thriller, Final Destination.
Sawa was featured on the covers of many teen magazines such as Tiger Beat and others during the height of his fame. In 2000, he portrayed the role of Stan, the obsessed Eminem fan in the music video Stan alongside Dido who played Stan's girlfriend. He has continued to work steadily in films.
He also currently resides in Los Angeles, California with his fiancée, Jessica. He was arrested in November of 2005 for charges of resisting arrest or obstructing the duties of a police officer
