Mini-Biography
Jake Thomas was born January 30, 1990 in Knoxville Tennessee, and played the role of "Matt McGuire" on the
Disney series, Lizzie McGuire. Some of his other roles included young Hugh Hefner in
the
1999 made for tv movie Hefner: Unauthorized, and Young Carl Stargher in the 2000
theatrical movie The Cell.
Jake had a role in one of 2001's most anticiapted movies,Steven Spielberg's A.I. for which he won a Young Artist Award as best supporting young actor, he was Nominated for a 2001 Young Artist Award also in the category, Best Performance by a Young actor for his role in The Cell.
On tv apart from his series role in Lizzie McGuire from 2001 to 2004 he has made guest appearances on several shows including 3rd Rock from the Sun and Touched by an Angel. His other step into a tv series was in the 2003 debut of Sixteen to Life playing Mike. He also appeared in the made for television movie Cousin Eddie's Christmas Vacation. In 2007 he played 'Jason Stickler' in several episodes of Cory in the House and will appear in the 2008 TV film Aces 'N Eights.
Other feature film roles includes his "Matt McGuire" role for big screen version of the Disney series The Lizzie McGuire Movie and that of "Zach Connolly" in the Comedy Soccer Dog: European Cup and "Michael Banning" in DinoCroc.
