Sean Nelson (born May 9, 1980) is an American actor. Nelson began his career as a child actor, receiving notice after his film debut in Fresh (1994), as the eponymous title character.
Major roles in American Buffalo (1996) and The Wood (1999) followed, in addition to Nelson playing the recurring role of Jesse Bayliss on drama Sisters (1995−96). Nelson has continued acting in adulthood, predominantly in independent films and small roles on television.
Nelson has won an Independent Spirit Award and received a Sundance Film Festival Award, both for his role in Fresh.
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Early life
Nelson was born in the Co-op City section of the Bronx, New York, in a working class family. He is the son of Aubrey, a mechanical engineer, and Sonia Nelson.
In 1988, he enrolled at a local acting school. Nelson's mother had originally wanted her son to learn the piano and take voice lessons, but the instructor decided Nelson should study acting instead. As a teenager, Nelson attended the Professional Performing Arts School. Nelson studied film at Temple University and he graduated by 2007.
