Tyler Hoechlin
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Tyler Lee Hoechlin (Template:IPAc-en; born September 11, 1987) is an American actor. He initially earned recognition for starring as Michael Sullivan Jr. in the 2002 film Road to Perdition. In television, Hoechlin starred as Martin Brewer on 7th Heaven from 2003 to 2007, and also became known for portraying Derek Hale on Teen Wolf (2011Template:Ndash2014; 2017), Superman in the CW's Supergirl (2016Template:Ndash2019) and Superman & Lois (2021Template:Ndash2024), and for voicing Sephiroth in the Final Fantasy VII Remake franchise.
Early life
Hoechlin was born in Corona, California, on September 11, 1987,<ref name="ASUA">Template:Cite web</ref> to Lori and Don Hoechlin. He has described his family's ethnic background as "Native American, German, Irish, and some others".<ref>Template:Cite tweet</ref> Hoechlin has two brothers and an older sister.<ref name="sli">Template:Cite web</ref> He graduated from Santiago High School in 2006.<ref name="sli" />
Career
Baseball
Hoechlin began playing baseball at the age of seven and continued throughout high school, playing in the Area Code Games in 2004 and 2005.<ref name="sli" /> He earned a baseball scholarship to Arizona State University, where he played infield; his team made it to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska.<ref name="empire">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2008, after a year at Arizona State, he transferred to the University of California, Irvine,<ref name="empire" /> where he was second baseman for the UC Irvine Anteaters.<ref name="empire" /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He also played summer collegiate wood-bat baseball with the Battle Creek Bombers of the Northwoods League.<ref name="empire" />
At first, Hoechlin aimed for a career in baseball, prioritizing it over his acting opportunities, which led him to turn down offers for auditions and meetings (including one with director Francis Ford Coppola), and to decline the role of Emmett Cullen in the Twilight films.<ref name="empire" /><ref name="Cribb">Template:Cite web</ref> However, during his junior year in college, he pulled his hamstring, limiting his ability to play and practice. As a result, he participated in more acting auditions, and eventually, on the advice of his coach, made the decision to pursue acting full-time.<ref name="empire" />
Acting
As a baby, Hoechlin appeared in TV commercials. This led him to successfully audition at an acting school and obtain an agent.<ref name="empire" /><ref name="oc">Template:Cite web</ref> As an older child, his first role (at age 11) was in Happy Haunting, a Disney Sing-Along Songs video.<ref name="empire" /><ref name="oc" /> At 13, Hoechlin was selected from among 2,000 auditioners to play Michael Sullivan Jr. in Road to Perdition.<ref name="road">Template:Cite magazine</ref> Hoechlin was nominated for multiple awards for the role, and won both the Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor and the Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actor.<ref name="SATURNyounger" /><ref name="YoungArtist">Template:Cite web</ref> That performance led to him getting the role of Martin Brewer in the television series 7th Heaven in 2003.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Initially booked for a two-episode arc, he was promoted to a regular character for the rest of the series.<ref name="empire" />
Hoechlin was nominated for a 2004 Teen Choice Award for Breakout Male Star for this role, and remained a regular cast member for the next four years, garnering further nominations for a Teen Choice Award and a Young Artist Award.<ref name="tc05" /><ref name="YoungArtistnom" /> The series' producers accommodated Hoechlin's baseball schedule, filming on days he did not have practice or a game, throughout high school and his first year of college.<ref name="empire" />
After 7th Heaven ended in 2007, he had small roles in other television series, including CSI: Miami, My Boys, and Castle.<ref name="yahoo">Template:Cite web</ref> He also returned to film work, starring in David DeCoteau's Grizzly Rage in 2007 and appearing in Solstice the following year.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He also appeared in the 2011 movie Hall Pass.<ref name="Cribb" />
Hoechlin played werewolf Derek Hale in the television series Teen Wolf. He was a regular on the show for the first four seasons, and returned as a guest star for the sixth and final season in 2017. During the early seasons of the show, filmed in Atlanta, Georgia, Hoechlin lived with co-stars Tyler Posey and Dylan O'Brien.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> BuddyTV ranked him third on its list of "TV's 100 Sexiest Men of 2011".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Throughout Teen Wolf's run, the cast won the Best Ensemble award at the 2013 Young Hollywood Awards and Hoechlin won the 2014 Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Male Scene Stealer.<ref name="YHA" /><ref name="tc14" />
After leaving Teen Wolf to pursue other work and film roles,<ref name="Cribb" /> Hoechlin was cast in Richard Linklater's baseball comedy Everybody Wants Some!!. To achieve a sense of camaraderie among the cast, they spent three weeks living together at Linklater's ranch while fine-tuning the script.<ref name="paste">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Hoechlin was able to draw upon his baseball experience for the film, in which he played team captain McReynolds.<ref name="paste" /><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> The film was released in 2016 to critical acclaim.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> That same year, Hoechlin appeared in a second baseball film, Undrafted, which, in contrast to Everybody Wants Some!!, was poorly received by critics.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He also appeared in military thriller film Stratton, released in 2017.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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Hoechlin was cast as Superman on the CW show Supergirl in 2016. As producer Greg Berlanti's first choice for the role, he did not have to audition.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Describing the casting as "surreal", Hoechlin said he hoped to successfully embody the optimism of the character and maintain the idea of Superman as a symbol of hope.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He appeared in four episodes of the show's second season, and was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Guest Performance on a Television Series for his work in the role.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="saturn">Template:Cite web</ref> His portrayal of Superman was well received by fans and critics and described as "fun" and a "breath of fresh air".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 2018, Hoechlin returned to Supergirl as part of the annual Arrowverse crossover episodes, titled "Elseworlds". He also appeared in the corresponding crossover episodes of both Arrow and The Flash, which all aired in December 2018.<ref name="arrowverse2018">Template:Cite web</ref> Hoechlin returned to the Arrowverse for the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" episodes.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In October 2019, it was confirmed that Superman & Lois, a spin-off series starring Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch, was in development at the CW,<ref name="superman&lois">Template:Cite web</ref> which picked it up straight-to-series in January 2020.<ref name="reb">Template:Cite web</ref> The series premiered on February 23, 2021,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and was renewed for a third season in March 2022.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
He was cast in Fifty Shades Darker as Boyce Fox, an author, in early 2016.<ref name="50shades" /> Hoechlin did not appear in the finished film but did feature in the sequel Fifty Shades Freed, which was released in 2018.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The same year, he appeared in The Domestics, a post-apocalytic thriller, which was released on June 28.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Hoechlin starred in George Gallo's Bigger, in which he played Joe Weider. The biopic told the story of the Weider brothers' founding the International Federation of Bodybuilders.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Bigger premiered on September 13, 2018, in Las Vegas, in conjunction with the Mr. Olympia competition, and was released to cinemas in October.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
The following month, teen drama Then Came You premiered at the Woodstock Film Festival. Initially titled Departures when Hoechlin was cast in February 2017, the film was released theatrically in February 2019.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In July 2019, Hoechlin appeared as Ian Yerxa in the sci-fi drama series Another Life.<ref name="anotherlife">Template:Cite web</ref> Two months later, Hoechlin starred in Can You Keep a Secret? as Jack Harper.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Sophie Kinsella; it began filming in October 2018.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2020, he was cast as the new voice of Sephiroth for Final Fantasy VII Remake, succeeding George Newbern.
In May 2022, he was confirmed to reprise his role as Derek Hale in Teen Wolf: The Movie, for which he also served as a producer.<ref name="TeenWolfMovie">Template:Cite web</ref>
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Template:Abbr |
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| 1998 | Disney Sing-Along Songs | Zach | Segment: Happy Haunting – Party at Disneyland! | <ref name="empire" /><ref name="oc" /> |
| 1999 | Family Tree | Jeff Jo | <ref name="oc" /> | |
| 2001 | Train Quest | Billy | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| 2002 | Road to Perdition | Michael Sullivan Jr. | <ref name="road" /> | |
| 2008 | Solstice | Nick | ||
| 2011 | Hall Pass | Gerry | ||
| Open Gate | Kaleb | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | ||
| 2012 | Melvin Smarty | Ricky Hershey | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| 2016 | Everybody Wants Some!! | Glen McReynolds | ||
| Undrafted | Jonathan "Dells" Dellamonica | |||
| 2017 | Stratton | Marty | ||
| 2018 | Bigger | Joe Weider | ||
| The Domestics | Mark West | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | ||
| Fifty Shades Freed | Boyce Fox | <ref name="50shades">Template:Cite web</ref> | ||
| Then Came You | Frank Lewis | |||
| 2019 | Can You Keep a Secret? | Jack Harper | <ref>Template:Citation</ref> | |
| 2020 | Palm Springs | Abraham Eugene Trent "Abe" Schlieffen | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| 2023 | Teen Wolf: The Movie | Derek Hale | Also producer | <ref name="TeenWolfMovie" /> |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Template:Abbr |
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| 2003–2007 | 7th Heaven | Martin Brewer | Main role (seasons 8–11) | |
| 2007 | CSI: Miami | Shawn Hodges | Episode: "Sunblock" | |
| Grizzly Rage | Wes Harding | Television film | ||
| 2009 | Castle | Dylan Fulton | Episode: "Fool Me Once..." | |
| Lincoln Heights | Tad | 2 episodes | <ref name="yahoo" /> | |
| My Boys | Owen Scott | Episode: "Spring Training" | <ref name="yahoo" /> | |
| 2011–2014, 2017 | Teen Wolf | Derek Hale | Main role (seasons 1–4); guest role (season 6) | |
| 2013 | The Sticks | Hot Cop Clark Russell | Television film | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2016–2019 | Supergirl | Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman (Earth-38) and John Deegan / Superman | 6 episodes | <ref name="arrowverse2018" /> |
| 2017 | Hollywood Game Night | Himself | Episode: "Super Smashed Game Night" | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2018–2019 | The Flash | Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman (Earth-38) | 2 episodes | <ref name="arrowverse2018" /> |
| 2018–2020 | Arrow | Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman (Earth-38) and John Deegan / Superman | 2 episodes | <ref name="arrowverse2018" /> |
| 2019 | Another Life | Ian Yerxa | Recurring role | <ref name="anotherlife" /> |
| Batwoman | Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman (Earth-38) and Kal-El / Superman (Earth-75) | Episode: "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Two" | <ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> | |
| Match Game | Himself | Episode: "Kenan Thompson / Ellie Kemper / Tyler Hoechlin / Sherri Shepherd / Horatio Sanz / Jillian Bell" | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| 2020 | Legends of Tomorrow | Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman (Earth-38) | Episode: "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Five" | |
| 2021–2024 | Superman & Lois | Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman, Bizarro | Main role | <ref name="reb" /> |
| 2025 | Impractical Jokers | Himself | Episode: "Dopamine Denier" |
Video games
| Year | Title | Voice role | Template:Abbr |
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| 2020 | Final Fantasy VII Remake | Sephiroth | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2022 | Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| 2024 | Final Fantasy VII Rebirth | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
Awards and nominations
References
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- 1987 births
- 20th-century American male actors
- 21st-century American male actors
- American male child actors
- American male film actors
- American male television actors
- American people of German descent
- American people of Irish descent
- American people who self-identify as being of Native American descent
- Arizona State Sun Devils baseball players
- Baseball players from Riverside County, California
- Living people
- Male actors from Riverside County, California
- People from Corona, California
- UC Irvine Anteaters baseball players