Tye Sheridan Biography, Age, Family, X Men, Movies, Cyclops and Mud

Tye Sheridan Biography

Tye Sheridan (Tye Kayle Sheridan) is an American actor best known for playing Cyclops/Scott Summers in the X-Men film series which premiered in 2016, and also Wade Watts in Ready Player One (2018).

Sheridan made his feature film debut in Terrence Malick’s experimental drama film The Tree of Life (2011) and also had his first leading role in Jeff Nichols’s film Mud (2012). Tye also co-starred in David Gordon Green’s drama Joe (2013) and then the period thriller The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015).

Tye was enrolled in the Elkhart Independent School District until he began his film career and also received tutoring on film sets. He graduated from high school.

How Old Is Tye Sheridan? 

Kayle Sheridan was born on November 11, 1996, in Elkhart, Texas, U.S. He is 22 years old as of 2018.

Tye Sheridan Parents

Tye was born to Stephanie (Wright) Sheridan who owns a beauty salon, and his father, Bryan Sheridan who is an employee of UPS. Sheridan has a younger sister, Madison.

Tye Sheridan Career

Tye made his feature film debut in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, with Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain and also Sean Penn. This is after an almost year-long casting search of more than 10,000 children from Texas and Oklahoma. The film then premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, and went on to be awarded the prestigious Palme d’Or and also be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Tye Sheridan Mud

Sheridan then played the leading role of Ellis in Jeff Nichols’ Mud opposite Jacob Lofland and Matthew McConaughey in 2012. The coming-of-age drama-thriller film premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and also Sheridan received a Critics’ Choice Award nomination.

He also plays Gary Jones in the film, Joe. The film stars Nicolas Cage playing an ex-con who meets a 15-year-old boy, the eldest child in a homeless family headed by an alcoholic father and is faced with the choice of redemption or ruin. For his role in the film, Sheridan received the Marcello Mastroianni Award for the best upcoming young actor at the 70th Venice International Film Festival.

Sheridan played Will Cutter in the film The Forger in 2014, from a script by Richard D’Ovidio, which stars John Travolta. It then follows former child art prodigy and art forger Ray Cutter (Travolta). Cutter arranges to buy his way out of prison so he can spend time with his ailing son (Sheridan) and father (Plummer). Cutter is only to be forced to change his plans and commit one last big job for the syndicate that financed his early release.

Tye starred in the three films that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015. He co-starred opposite Gregg Turkington and Michael Cera in the drama Entertainment, and also played a prisoner in the film adaptation of The Stanford Prison Experiment. He appeared in Rodrigo Garcia’s drama Last Days in the Desert opposite Ewan McGregor which was released in May 2016. Tye also had a supporting role in the film adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s Dark Places that year and also the leading role in the horror comedy Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse.

Tye Sheridan Cyclops

He played the mutant Scott Summers / Cyclops in the 2016 film X-Men: Apocalypse, released on May 27. Sheridan starred in the war drama The Yellow Birds, opposite Alden Ehrenreich, Jack Huston, and Jennifer Aniston in 2017.

Tye Sheridan Grass Stains

Tye co-starred with Kaitlyn Dever in Grass Stains which is a film written and directed by Kyle Wilamowski. Sheridan plays a teen discovering his first love (Dever). When a prank goes wrong and causes the death of his girlfriend’s older brother, the teen must balance his secret guilt with his feelings for the girl.

Tye Sheridan Ready Player One

In the year 2018, Tye played Wade Watts, a.k.a. Parzival, the lead character, in Steven Spielberg’s science fiction film Ready Player One, which was released on March 29.

Tye Sheridan X Men

Sheridan portrays Cyclops/Scott Summers in the X-Men film series which premiered in 2016.

Tye Sheridan Net Worth

The X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) star’s net worth is not yet revealed.

Tye Sheridan Height

He stands at a height of  1.7 m (5′ 7″).

Tye Sheridan Gay

There is no available information regarding him as gay.

Tye Sheridan Movies

Year

Title

Role

Director

2019

Dark Phoenix

Scott Summers / Cyclops

Simon Kinberg

The Night Clerk

Bart Bromley

Michael Cristofer

2018

Ready Player One

Wade Watts / Parzival

Steven Spielberg

Friday’s Child

Richie

A.J. Edwards

Deadpool 2

Scott Summers / Cyclops

David Leitch

The Mountain

Andy

Rick Alverson

2017

The Yellow Birds

Daniel Murphy

Alexandre Moors

All Summers End

Conrad Stevens

Kyle Wilamowski

2016

Detour

Harper James

Christopher Smith

X-Men: Apocalypse

Scott Summers / Cyclops

Bryan Singer

2015

Entertainment

Eddie the Opener

Rick Alverson

Last Days in the Desert

Son

Rodrigo García

The Stanford Prison Experiment

Peter Mitchell

Kyle Patrick Alvarez

Dark Places

Young Ben Day

Gilles Paquet-Brenner

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

Ben Goudy

Christopher B. Landon

2014

The Forger

Will Cutter

Philip Martin

2013

Joe

Gary Jones

David Gordon Green

2012

Mud

Ellis

Jeff Nichols

2011

The Tree of Life

Steve O’Brien

Terrence Malick

Tye Sheridan Awards

Year

Award

Category

Work

Result

2012 Central Ohio Film Critics Association Best Ensemble
(shared with The Tree of Life crew)
The Tree of Life

Nominated

2013 Marcello Mastroianni Award at the 70th Venice International Film Festival Best New Young Actor Joe

Won

Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award Best Youth Performance Mud

Won

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2013 Most Promising Performer

Nominated

Phoenix Film Critics Society Award Best Performance by a Youth in a Lead or Supporting Role – Male

Won

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award Youth in Film

Won

Georgia Film Critics Association Breakthrough Award Joe, Mud

Nominated

2014 Robert Altman Award At Independent Spirit Awards Best Ensemble
(shared with Mud crew)
Mud

Won

Critics’ Choice Movie Award Best Young Actor/Actress

Nominated

Empire Awards Empire Award for Best Male Newcomer

Nominated

2018 2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards Best Kiss (with Olivia Cooke) Ready Player One

Nominated

Best On-Screen Team (with Olivia Cooke, all of the Overlook Hotel characters, Philip Zhao, Win Morisaki and Lena Waithe)

Nominated