Sean H. Faris was born on March 25, 1982 in Houston, Texas to Warren Faris and Katherine Miller. When Sean was 10 years old, someone in his neighborhood told him that he resembled actor Tom Cruise, so Sean convinced them that he was Tom Cruise's son, that is until his sister busted him. Sean moved to Parma, Ohio with his mother at age 12 after his parents divorced. Sean attended Padua Franciscan High School in Cleavland, graduating in 2000 with honors. He began his acting and modeling career in Cleveland at Barbizon, while still attending Padua, and later to IMTA with Stone Model & Talent. Admitingly, high school was just four years of waiting to get out so he could move to California. It essentially ended up being two and a half years of waiting to get out so Sean could move to California because he spent the first two years in high school not having a clue of what he wanted to do. Not too long after Sean graduated, he moved to Los Angeles with his best friend to begin his acting career. He immediately landed an agent and not long after that, landed a role in the major motion picture Pearl Harbor (2001), directed by Michael Bay.
If the immediate success had gone to Faris' head just a bit, reality would soon sink in when the young hopeful was cast in such forgettable low-budget efforts as Twisted and The Brotherhood II: Young Warlocks. Following a few acting classes and some formal training, however, Sean was soon working his way back to the top with small-screen roles in MTV's Undressed and House Blend as well as brief supporting appearances in One Tree Hill, Smallville and Boston Public before making a return to A-list features as Alexa Vega's character's love interest in the 2004 teen comedy Sleepover. Later that same year, Sean made a splash on ABC as one of a trio of tight-knit teens preoccupied with sex in the short-lived television drama, Life As We Know It.
These days, Sean is working his way around Hollywood, landing the role of the eldest Beardsley child in the 2005 remake of Yours, Mine, and Ours starring Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo. Sean attempted another television show that was another short-lived show, Reunion, in the fall of 2005. Sean then snagged the role of angered teenager Jake Tyler in 2008's Mixed Martial Arts action/drama big screen movie Never Back Down, that coincidently took the #3 spot cashing up $8.61 million on opening weekend on thousands of screens in 2,729 theaters. With two more movies set for 2008 releases, Sean has begun production on a new movie, The Glass Eye, which he will not only be starring in, but he is also producing the movie with his manager Dino May.
