American former actor
Justin Whalin
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Born
| Justin Garrett Whalin
(
1974-09-06
)
September 6, 1974
(age 49)
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Alma mater
| American Conservatory Theater
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Occupation(s)
| Actor
, teacher
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Years active
| 1987?2009
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Spouse
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Reina Flynn
(
m.
2006;
div.
2009)
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Justin Garrett Whalin
(born September 6, 1974) is an American former
actor
. He portrayed the teenage
Andy Barclay
in
Child's Play 3
, Ridley Freeborn in
Dungeons & Dragons
, and
Jimmy Olsen
in the American television series
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
.
[2]
Early life
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Whalin was born in the
Sunset District
of
San Francisco
,
California
. His mother, Terry Villanueva, is a teacher and school administrator who owns and operates two L.A. area schools: The Learning Castle and La Canada Preparatory. His father, Craig Whalin, is a
real estate
appraiser.
[3]
His parents divorced when he was seven years old and both remarried. He has a younger half-brother and an older stepbrother and stepsister.
[
citation needed
]
He studied acting at the
American Conservatory Theater
(A.C.T.) in San Francisco, and attended
Lowell High School
. After years of commuting between Los Angeles and San Francisco, he and his mother relocated to L.A. permanently when he was fifteen years old. He completed his high school education through
U.C. Berkeley
's homeschooling program.
Career
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Whalin worked as an actor from the age of eleven, when he appeared in a production of the play
The Little Prince
at
San Francisco
's
Victoria Theatre
.
[4]
His first TV role was on
General Hospital
, after he caught the attention of a casting director who was giving an acting class.
[4]
He starred in the 1993
CBS Schoolbreak Special
production
Other Mothers
, for which he won a
Daytime Emmy
.
[4]
He went on to star in
Miracle at Midnight
opposite
Mia Farrow
and
Sam Waterston
. He also auditioned to play
Billy Loomis
in
Scream
.
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citation needed
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Whalin was cast as the young
Daily Planet
photographer
Jimmy Olsen
in the TV series
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
from 1994 to 1997. Whalin said that initially the only
fan mail
he got on the show was from people complaining that he was not as good as
Michael Landes
(who played Olsen during the show's first season), and that it was not until around his fifth episode that he began to see an even mix of positive and negative fan reactions.
[5]
He enjoyed the role, though he said it often seemed limited to delivering exposition; a reoccurring motif of the series was that Lois and/or Clark would ask Jimmy to research a suspicious person or organization, and in a later scene Jimmy would rattle off the requested names, dates, addresses, and backstory.
[6]
When Whalin was first cast, the producers had planned a Jimmy Olsen-centric episode in which Jimmy heads to
South America
to look for his long-lost father,
[4]
but it was never produced, though the show did get Olsen-centric episodes in season 3 ("The Dad Who Came in From the Cold") and 4 ("AKA Superman").
Whalin quit acting in 2009 to work as a social studies/drama
[7]
teacher and administrator at The Learning Castle and La Canada Preparatory, his mother's exclusive schools in the Los Angeles area.
Filmography
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Film
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Television
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Awards
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References
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2010s
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