Aaron Stanford | |
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Born | Westford, Massachusetts, U.S. | December 27, 1976
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Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 2001–present |
Aaron Stanford (born December 27, 1976) is an American actor known for his roles as Pyro in X2 , X-Men: The Last Stand and Deadpool & Wolverine , and Doug in the 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes . From 2010 to 2013, he starred as Birkhoff in Nikita . He has also starred as James Cole on the television series 12 Monkeys , based on the 1995 film of the same name.
Stanford was born in Westford, Massachusetts, the son of Judith (née Dupras), an English professor, and Don Stanford, who works in publishing. His brother David is a musician. Stanford attended Westford Academy in Westford Massachusetts for high school and met his first acting teacher there. He initially attended SUNY Purchase, but transferred to Rutgers University Mason Gross School of Arts. He graduated in 2000, magna cum laude. [1] [2]
Stanford's first major film role was in the low-budget indie film Tadpole (2002), in which he portrays Oscar Grubman, a precocious 15-year-old with a crush on his stepmother, played by Sigourney Weaver. For this performance he earned a nomination for the Golden Satellite Award. In 2001 and 2002 he appeared multiple times on the television series Third Watch as Russian teen Sergei. In the same year he was named as one of Daily Variety's "Top Ten Actors to Watch" and included on Entertainment Weekly's "It List". In 2004 he appeared in Christopher Shinn's play Where Do We Live at the Vineyard Theatre. Stanford also starred as Anthony LaPaglia's son in the 2004 film Winter Solstice .
Director Bryan Singer was impressed with Stanford's performance in Tadpole , and cast him as Pyro in the 2003 blockbuster X2 , a sequel to X-Men . He continued the role in the third installment, X-Men: The Last Stand , released in May 2006. Both movies are based on the Marvel Comics series X-Men . Stanford is set to reprise the role of Pyro in the 2024 Marvel Studios film Deadpool & Wolverine . Stanford also starred in ABC's midseason replacement Traveler , a drama about two friends who believe they are set up by their good friend (Stanford) in order to make them look like the conspirators of a terrorist attack.
Stanford appeared in the 2006 remake of Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes . He also won the "One To Watch" award at the 2006 Young Hollywood Awards. And in that same year, he starred in the New Hampshire–based comedy, Live Free or Die , playing a wannabe tough-guy criminal named John Rudgate. Aaron also was the voice actor for Pvt. Polonsky in Call of Duty: World at War . In 2009, he played a troubled poker genius in a season eight episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent , as well as Horace Cook Jr. in an episode of AMC's acclaimed show Mad Men . In 2010, he joined the CW's Nikita as Birkhoff. His character from the film The Hills Have Eyes appears in the 2012 video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II via Zombies Mode.
Stanford played the lead role of James Cole in the television adaptation of the movie 12 Monkeys, which premiered January 2015 on Syfy. He also was cast in the AMC series Fear the Walking Dead [3] as the recurring character Jim, first appearing in the episode that aired on August 26, 2018.
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2002 | Tadpole | Oscar Grubman | Nominated—Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical—Satellite Award |
Hollywood Ending | Actor | ||
25th Hour | Marcuse | ||
2003 | X2 | John Allerdyce / Pyro | |
Rick | Duke | ||
2004 | Winter Solstice | Gabe Winters | |
Spartan | Michael Blake | ||
2005 | Runaway | Michael Adler | |
Standing Still | Rich | ||
2006 | The Hills Have Eyes | Doug Bukowski | Bloodiest Beatdown—Fangoria Chainsaw Award |
Live Free or Die | John "Rugged" Rudgate | ||
X-Men: The Last Stand | John Allerdyce / Pyro | ||
2007 | Flakes | Neal Downs | |
The Cake Eaters | Dwight "Beagle" Kimbrough | ||
2008 | Holy Money | Anthony | |
How I Got Lost | Andrew Peterson | NY Emerging Talent Award—Big Apple Film Festival | |
2016 | We’ve Forgotten More Than We Ever Knew | Daniel | |
2017 | Furthest Witness | Kyle Braddock | |
Clinical | Miles Richardson | ||
2020 | Horse Girl | Hades | |
2023 | Finestkind | Skeemo | |
2024 | Deadpool & Wolverine | John Allerdyce / Pyro | |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2001–02 | Third Watch | Sergei | 5 episodes |
2007 | Traveler | Will Traveler | 8 episodes |
Numb3rs | Brett Chandler | Episode: "Hollywood Homicide" | |
2009 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Josh Snow | Episode: "All In" |
Mad Men | Horace Cook Jr. | Episode: "The Arrangements" | |
Fear Itself | Stephen | Episode: "Echoes" | |
2010–13 | Nikita | Seymour Birkhoff / Lionel Peller | Main role, 64 episodes |
2015–18 | 12 Monkeys | James Cole | Lead role, 47 episodes |
2016 | Comedy Bang! Bang! | Tom Holtby / Johnny Appleseed | 2 episodes |
2018 | Fear the Walking Dead | Jim Brauer | 6 episodes |
2020 | Perry Mason | George Gannon | 4 episodes |
2022 | Westworld | Peter Myers | 2 episodes |
2023 | Star Trek: Picard | Sneed | Episode: "Disengage" |
Year | Title | Voice role | Notes |
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2008 | Call of Duty: World at War | Private Polonsky |
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