Blake Brown

Blake Thomas Brown (born March 5, 1993, Los Angeles, California) is an American child/teen actor best known from both Jane Hoop Elementary and Alexander's Adventure. He was first seen from Fight Club, one of his first successful film in 1999, working along with Brad Pitt and Edward Norton making him the star. Also as Alexander on Alexander Adventure trilogy. He has won numerous awards, and is currently the youngest person ever to have been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award and plays is role, Danny Gorden. He was working along with four best friends Amy Tammie, Ben Linkin, Bart Simpson and Bloom Dee.

Early life
Brown was born in Georgia on March 5, 1993 at the Georgia Hospital. He lives with his mother Nicole Brown (nee Wilson) and father David Brown. He also lives with two siblings, Joe (born 1995). His mom states that she was expecting to have a girl, but she gave birth to a boy instead. Brown doesn't even know that his mother wanting another girl in her family.

Brown grew up and move to Los Angeles at the age of 3, following his father having a new job there. He attend to Roberts High School in Los Angeles and graduated in June 2010. He attends States University in Los Angeles. Brown states in a interview that his mother was 19 when she gave birth to him and dropped out of school to have him. She eventually has quit school and focus on her family.

Brown states that he is interesting in rapping and dancing where his family supports him and decided to do his career being a dancer and rapper. Instead, when promoting for one of his favorite actors, he instead became an actor instead of being a dancer and rapper, but became one in real life.

Jane Hoop Elementary
After years of searching for actors to play the role of Danny, Rebecca and Alec, producer Brian Clark has announced that Bow Wow is originally auditioning to play the role for a 1995 release, but has been postpone till further notice and decided to let another actor to play the role because Bow Wow grows too old to play the role as seven year old Danny until it came to production in 1998. Director James Calvin start asking Brown, after finding actors that could play the role for Danny on December 1999,[3] after filming of Fight Club in 1998,[3] based on the novel with Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter and Edward Norton.[3]Brown, starts reading his script for the character's help, reading is about Danny is the leader. Leading to a 2000 interview in Cincinnati, Ohio office on November 2000.[3] He officially has got the role as Danny for Jane Hoop Elementary: The First which became a huge hit at the box office grossing nearly $80 million in its opening weekend, which sets a new record previous. It than became the 2nd highest-grossing film of all-time grossing $928 million worldwide just behind Titanic. Currently, Hoop is the 13th of all-time while Titanic is the 2nd behind Avatar. Brown has won several awards including Kids Choice Award for Best Movie Actor, while the film has also won for Best Movie, but was nominated at the MTV Movie Awards for Best Actor. It earned 79% from Rotten Tomatoes. When the book was released in 1991, the actor was not yet born.

Brown reprised his role as Danny Gorden into the sequel Jane Hoop Elementary: The Cyber Escape, earning 83% from Rotten Tomatoes and opened one year after the first film to ever bigger than the first film with nearly $90 million, but quickly ended up being lower than its predecessor grossing $859 million worldwide, which is in the top 30 for highest-grossing film of all-time. It was also the 3rd highest-grossing film worldwide behind Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ($974 million) and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ($870 million).

Two years later, Brown returns as the role of Danny Gorden for the third installment Jane Hoop Elementary: Goldenman's Revenge opening almost $100 million in its opening weekend, which is far better than its predecessors but it quickly became lower than un expecting. It has made $790 million worldwide, ranking 3rd for a film released in 2003 behind The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the King ($1.119 billion) and Finding Nemo ($867 million). However, critics say that Brown is the star and the film is the best "Jane Hoop Elementary" film yet.

Brown returns to the Jane Hoop Elementary franchise with the fourth film Jane Hoop Elementary: The Magic Ball in 2005 opening with $104 million and up to at total of $891 million, outgoing both second and third film. Brown states that Christensen has released the seventh and final book in the same year titling Jane Hoop Elementary: The Final Rush. Brown returns to the next Jane Hoop Elementary film Jane Hoop Elementary: Morphin the Power. The film opened to $134 million in five days and up to $302 million domestically, and $962 million worldwide. The actor was nominted for Best Actor at the Kids Choice Awards in 2008, but lost as well as the film for Best Movie.

He returns as Danny Gorden in Jane Hoop Elementary: Turbo of Catland, which opened on July 8, 2009. He will begin filming of the next final two films were Jane Hoop Elementary: The Final Rush - Part 1 on November 12, 2010, and Jane Hoop Elementary: The Final Rush - Part 2 on July 8, 2011. Filming for both parts took a year to finish finally ending on December 2010 which ends eleven years of filming the franchise.

Part 2 as the best review film in the series including Rotten Tomatoes with 95% as well as opening as bigger than its predcessors at the box office. With $69 million on it's opening day, the third biggest opening day of all-time behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 ($92.1 million) and The Twilight Saga: New Moon ($72.7 million) for a total of $141 million, it became the 4th biggest opening of all-time behind The Dark Knight ($158 million), Spider-Man 3 ($151 million) and The Twilight Saga: New Moon ($142 million), despite the success of 3D audiences. Brown states that the film is the perfect conclusion of the franchise that has last for eleven years.

Other Projects
In 1999 at 6 years old, Brown begin his career working with Edward Norton and Brad Pitt in Fight Club from 20th Century Fox. He also stars alongside Will Ferrell in Kicking & Screaming in 2005. In 2004, Brown take a break outside of Jane Hoop Elementary to star into his first comedy film as Alexander Alexander's Adventure, starring Eddie Murphy, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Jennette McCurdy and Adam G. Sevani. It became a huge hit grossing just a solid $16 million in its opening weekend and quickly gross $93 million domestically, with $163 million worldwide.

In 2006, he reprised his role as Alexander in the sequel Alexander's Adventure 2, another huge hit. Opening with $30 million, it gross to $91 million, with $162 million, which is close to be as higher as the first film is. In 2008, Brown came back as Alexander in the third film Alexander's Adventure 3, which became a Alexander's Adventure hit franchise. He also will be appearing which he begin filming on September 2007, and warped completed on March 2008. While working for the fourth film, Brown states not returning but to continue Jane Hoop Elementary instead, as production has been cancelled.

After wrapping up Jane Hoop Elementary, Alexander's Adventure 4 has been revamped as Brown decided to join the fourth installment. He will also be starring into his first thriller film titling Gangsters starring alongside Miranda Cosgrove, Angela Bassett, Gerald Butler, Samuel L. Jackson, Justin Timberlake and Julia Roberts.

Personal life
Brown attends Australia city schools, he begin that he likes to be as a dancer, nearly becoming as a male singer. He start dating with film actress, Amy Tammie, when they begin in July 2007, after Morphin the Power was released. They meet up with other friend Ben Linkin, as well, letting Brown and Tammie poses dating on the magazines. With Linkin, he shares Brown how he would become a dancer, but also a rapper. Brown was premiered with Linkin and Tammie on ABC family weekend of Jane Hoop Elementary four weekend on June 7, 2008 and ended on July 2, 2008. I was telling people in a recent interview that I had a dream that Andrew Strauss was chasing me with a cricket bat. It was during the West Indies series when Andrew wasn’t doing too well and an Australian who was listening in piped up and said, "I wouldn’t worry about Strauss, if he had a swing at you at the moment he’d probably miss". Regarding the milestone of turning 14, Brown stated:[42]
 * ''I don't plan to be one of those people who, as soon as they turn 14, suddenly buy themselves a massive sports car collection or something similar. I don't think I'll be particularly extravagant. The things I like buying are things that cost about 10 pounds -- books, CDs and DVDs.

On July 2009, it was report that most of the fans are questing him that he starts getting on with his relationship with Dakota Fanning, as a on stage ex-girlfriend, with Turbo of Catland being released. Brown reports that he's still having his relationship with Tammie, until on November 2009, they broke up, after got into an argument for Brown giving her STD. On February 2010, he begins his relationship with Dakota Fanning, but was reported as a rumor.

On June 25, 2010, Brown reveals that he has gotten his tattoo. On August 22, 2011, it was revealed on set of Will & Grace 2 that he has a new girlfriend named Lauren Gibbs.