Gregory Smith

Gregory Smith, born in Toronto, is an actor and director who is both Canadian and American. He began acting at fourteen months old, working in a Tide commercial and store catalogs, and appeared in Andre, a 1994 children's film. In 1996 he appeared alongside Michelle Trachtenberg in Harriet the Spy. He then took a lead in Small Soldiers (1998) opposite Kirsten Dunst, winning a Young Artist Award for his leading performance in a feature film. Other films include Krippendorf's Tribe (1998), The Patriot (2000) and American Outlaws (2001), where he played the outlaw Jim Younger. On television, he became known as Ephram Brown on Everwood, a success that ran from 2002 to 2006 and won him another Young Artist Award, and later as Dov Epstein on Rookie Blue, for which he directed five episodes. His later films include Kids in America (2005), Boot Camp (2008), Dream House (2011) and Hobo with a Shotgun (2011).