Jimmy Bennett Movies and Career Information

James "Jimmy" Bennett (born February 9, 1996) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as a child actor in Daddy Day Care, Hostage, Poseidon, and more recently in Orphan and as young James T. Kirk in Star Trek. He is currently starring as JJ Powell in No Ordinary Family as a teenager with vast intelligence after a plane crash. Bennett was born in Seal Beach, California and now lives with his parents and his sister in Huntington Beach, where the family owns a crepe restaurant. When not acting, Bennett plays guitar and sings. He wrote and performed the song Summer Never Ends which can be heard at the end of Shorts. Bennett appeared in nearly 30 commercials, as well as in episodes of the television series The Guardian and Strong Medicine, before being cast in the role "Tony", the boy who wants to be The Flash, in the Eddie Murphy comedy Daddy Day Care. He had smaller roles in the movies Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and "Arthur Hailey's Detective". He has also appeared in Judging Amy, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Everwood, and lent his voice to characters in the animated films The Polar Express, Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo and I Want a Dog for Christmas,