Career
Merriman's first major role was on the television series The Mommies , which ran from 1993 to 1995. He stated in a 1999 interview alongside Bobbie Wygant that he auditioned for the lead role in North (1994) before Elijah Wood was cast in 1993. [3] During the 1990s, he appeared in most episodes of The Pretender as a younger version of Jarod, the series' main character. He has starred in several television films, including Smart House , The Luck of the Irish , and as a young Meyer Lansky in Lansky . He appeared in the 1999 feature film The Deep End of the Ocean , playing the lost son of Michelle Pfeiffer's character, and subsequently starred as the main character, a Jewish boy from the Bronx, in the 2000 film Just Looking . In 2002, he played Adam Eddington in another Disney Channel original movie, A Ring of Endless Light . He then returned to television roles, appearing in Dangerous Child , Taken , and Smallville .
Merriman's other roles include the horror films Halloween: Resurrection (2002), The Ring Two (2005), and Final Destination 3 (2006). He starred in Home of the Giants , a high school drama. He appeared in the CBS miniseries Comanche Moon in January 2008. He played Henry Dunn in the original pilot presentation for Harper's Island , but was replaced by Christopher Gorham when the series was picked up by CBS. From 2010 to 2014, Merriman portrayed Ian Thomas on ABC Family's Pretty Little Liars . In 2012, he starred as Dennis Mack in the 16th episode of Season 2 in Hawaii Five-0 .
Dwight Little wanted Merriman to play Jin Kazama in his film Tekken , but Merriman turned it down. He starred in the Hallmark Channel original movie Elevator Girl as Jonathan, a successful young lawyer who finds himself falling for a free-spirited young woman who is way below his pay grade. In 2011, he appeared as linebacker Jon Abbate in The 5th Quarter , a film about the 2006 football season of Wake Forest University.
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