Will Estes (born
William Estes Nipper, October 21, 1978, Los Angeles,
California
) is an American
actor best known for his role as JJ Pryor, on the NBC drama American Dreams. His break-out
movie role was Seaman Ronald 'Rabbit' Parker on
U-571. Early in his career, he did many
commercials and numerous guest starring roles in shows like
Highway to Heaven and
Santa Barbara. Then he was chosen out of 700 other kids
for the series
The New
Lassie. Since then he has had many starring roles in TV
shows and he dabbled in the Music Video industry. He has appeared
in
Meat Loaf's video "
Objects
In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are" (from
Bat out of Hell
II: Back into Hell) and was in
Bon
Jovi's video "
It's My
Life" with
Shiri Appleby.
In 2000, according to a 2005
Soap
Talk interview,
Jon Bon Jovi
asked him to be in his music video after he worked with him on
U-571. He did most of his own stunts in the video. So far, this has
been one of his favorite career moments.
Will had a leading role in the
Fox show
Reunion. The show followed six best
friends over the course of 20 years, with each episode marking the
next successive year. When the group meets up for their 20th
high school reunion, one turns
up dead at the end of the night. In late 2005 Fox announced that
the series would be cancelled due to low ratings and the identity
of the murderer would not be revealed.
An upcoming project is a short movie
Luz Del Mundo. He will be playing
Jack Kerouac, a good friend of
Neal Cassady. The movie is in post production
and will be seen in future film festivals. It was written by Ty
Roberts and David Trimble, directed by
Ty
Roberts and produced by Ryan McWhirter and John Pitts.
He has also appeared in a couple photographs, in the books
Hollywood Splash ISBN 1576871835 and
Men
Before 10 AM Too ISBN 1576870847
He was nominated 4 different times for one award, the
Young Artist Awards for
The New
Lassie and
Kirk
Filmography
References
- http://willestes.com/history.html Will Estes Bio
- http://www.islandrecords.com/bonjovi/archives_atoz_e.las Estes
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