Jack Dylan Grazer

Jack Dylan Grazer is an emerging young star who is known for his performances as Freddy Freeman in the DC Extended Universe franchise, Shazam! His feature debut was in the segment titled “The Weak and the Wicked” in the horror anthology movie, Tales of Halloween (2015), with Keir Gilchrist and Grace Phipps, which premiered at the Fantasia International Film Festival.

Grazer’s breakthrough was getting cast as Eddie in the two-part Stephen King adaptation, It (2017), followed by It Chapter Two (2019), both directed by Andy Muschietti and co-starring (in Chapter One) Jaeden Lieberher, Finn Wolfhard, Wyatt Oleff, Chosen Jacobs, Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, and Bill Skarsgård and (in Chapter Two), new cast members Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, and Andy Bean, with both Chapters earning a combined $1.17 billion at the global box office.

Grazer played the 12-year-old Nic Sheff in the dramatic biopic, Beautiful Boy (2018), written and directed by Felix van Groeningen and starring Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet, and Maura Tierney, and grossing only $16.6 million globally. Grazer inaugurated his performance as Freddy with the first entry, Shazam! (2019), starring Zachary Levi, and grossing $366 million worldwide. Grazer next co-starred with Fionn Whitehead, Mena Suvari, and Rainn Wilson in writer-director Alex McAulay’s man-in-a-hole thriller, Don’t Tell a Soul (2020), and premiered at the Deauville Film Festival, followed by a limited release during the pandemic.

Starring in his first Disney-Pixar movie, Grazer had his first major voice role in Luca (2021), with Jacob Tremblay, Emma Berman, Maya Rudolph, and Jim Gaffigan, and earned an impressive $50 million in a limited theatrical window before going to Disney Plus streaming. Grazer’s next vocal performance in an animated movie was co-starring in Ron’s Gone Wrong (2021), with Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, and Olivia Colman, and grossed $60.7 million globally for 20^th Century Studios.

Jack Dylan Grazer returned to the role of Freddy in the sequel, Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023), again directed by David E. Sandberg and starring Zachary Levi, with new cast members Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu, and released by Warner Bros. Grazer, as he did in Beautiful Boy, played the younger version of a central character in writer-producer-director Bill Pohlad’s music biopic, Dreamin’ Wild (2022), starring Casey Affleck, Walton Goggins, Zooey Deschanel, Chris Messina, and Beau Bridges, and which premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival.

Grazer continued his specialization in vocal animation work as a voice in See Po Pozco: The Movie (2023), with the single-named co-stars Joey, Eric, Amy, and Emma. Grazer then co-starred in Hamish Linklater’s screen adaptation of Chuck Klosterman’s 2008 novel, Downtown Owl (date to be announced), marking the co-directing debuts of Lily Rabe and Linklater (who were also producers), with the cast of Rabe, Henry Golding, Vanessa Hudgens, Finn Wittrock, and Ed Harris, and released by Sony.