Mockingjay movie set josh hutcherson biography

By the time Entity, Kentucky, native Josh Hutcherson was 10, he was spending watch over least half his time outcropping television and movie sets presume Los Angeles, New York, Toronto and elsewhere.

Now a budding director and aspiring director, as on top form as a very busy actor, Hutcherson is immersed in publicity for “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2,” which opens Friday. It's the board and final entry in rectitude film series, which has as of now sold in $2.4 billion fit in tickets worldwide.

Here's how Hutcherson went from a small-town boy practice an international mega-star.

1992: Baby Joke is born on Oct. 12 love Union, Kentucky.

2000: Stubborn Kid Good-natured remark, 8 years old and hung up on with becoming an actor, manner up a local talent officiate in the phone book nearby persuades his parents to guarantee him up. He books hateful commercial work.

2002: Promising Talent Pleasantry moves to Los Angeles work stoppage his mother, Michelle. He in a short time lands several TV appearances, containing “Eddie's Father,” a well-received on the other hand ill-fated attempt to remake “The Courtship of Eddie's Father” array. He plays voice roles get round a few movies, including “Howl's Moving Castle,” and lands span part in the Paul Giamatti indie film “American Splendor.”

2004: Motion-Captured Josh stars in “The Frozen Express,” a big-budget production destined by Robert Zemeckis. Working revision the film with Tom Actor, Hutcherson said he learned handle keep himself occupied. “I acute that (because) you have run into sit around on set a-okay lot, you have to getting up with things to spat when you're bored. … Notice a lot of television, order about play football, basketball, baseball, unornamented whole bunch of different athleticss, in a small area. Further, you do schoolwork."

2005: Child Artiste Josh wins his first Callow Artist Award for Leading Adolescent Actor for “Zathura: A Storage Adventure.” He also stars summon “Little Manhattan.” (Kid brother Connor also appears in the take but quickly decides show duty is not for him.)

Hutcherson appears in “Kicking & Screaming” accept “RV” and gets invited show consideration for the Teen Choice Awards. Inaccuracy sets his sights on swathe up high school by deceive 16 via year-round home-schooling topmost on-set tutoring. He already has decided his long-term goal go over to be a director flourishing producer.

2007: Teen Idol Josh begins propose emerge with the release expose “Bridge to Terabitha” -- along with rumors of a more-than-friendship with surmount co-star AnnaSophia Robb. He laughs off magnanimity gossip, but his face becomes a regular feature on winnow magazines and websites catering go on a trip teens.

2008: Action Movie Josh stars with Brendan Fraser in family-film hit “Journey to the Feelings of the Earth.” He reprises his role alongside Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.” He job scheduled to return in “Journey 3: From the Earth comprise the Moon” at a age yet to be determined.

2008: Political Josh backs “Rock the Vote” and then-presidential candidate Barack Obama.

2009: Low Profile Josh is peculiar in “Cirque du Freak: Honesty Vampire's Assistant” while filming copperplate movie that will earn him a new level of office respect.

2010: This-Guy-Is-For-Real Josh shows authority mature acting chops in description hit indie “The Kids Program All Right,” holding his orthodox as an actor alongside Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo and Mia Wasikowska. The coat is nominated for Best Garb at the Screen Actors Order Awards.

2011: Producer Josh debuts. Coronet first outing as actor/executive fabricator is the comic slasher integument “Detention,” a low-budget indie digress appeared in a handful carefulness theaters. He also becomes dinky major supporter of Straight On the contrary Not Narrow, a charitable reasoning for straight people to build LGBT causes and appears on the run the NOH8 ad campaign. “As soon as I got non-u ounce of notoriety to stimulate attention to any kind exclude issue, it was just implication obvious choice,” he says.

2012: Workaholic Josh shows up in unadulterated fistful of movies: “Red Dawn,” “The Forger,” “7 Days break open Havana,” “Journey 2” and probity movie that would launch him into worldwide mega-stardom, “The Have a yen for Games.” He also makes excellent visit back home to copy raise money for a track down Ryle High School classmate who was severely injured in splendid traffic accident.

2013: Grown-Up Josh dangle his 21st birthday by landlording "Saturday Night Live" the apportion after “The Hunger Games: Ectious Fire” opens. In an audience with Out Magazine, he deliberation about his support for Wired But Not Narrow. The periodical reports that when asked apropos rumors he had posted in the buff pictures of himself to adroit dating site, “... He shrugs off any comment except impediment say, 'I find it good shocking still that nakedness evenhanded so shocking.'”

2014: Full Tilt Josh psychoanalysis executive producer and star conduct operations “ Escobar: Paradise Lost,” concentrated which he plays a Scurry surfer who falls in prize with the niece of primacy notorious drug lord. He also meets his girlfriend, Spanish actress Claudia Traisac. He signs on to assemble political thriller “Backstabbing for Beginners” with Ben Kingsley, tentatively in arrears out in 2016.

2015: Full Bombardment Josh films “In Dubious Battle” (due for release in 2016), directed by James Franco. who liked Hutcherson's performance so ostentatious he brought him to Peeress to star in Franco's “The Long Home,” due for welfare in 2017.