July 2011
Joel Courtney (born January 31, 1996) is an American actor. Courtney is most known for his role of Joseph "Joe" Lamb in the 2011 J. J. Abrams film Super 8. Courtney currently resides in Moscow, Idaho.
Courtney, living in Moscow, Idaho, took a trip to Los Angeles during the first week of summer school break, where he hoped to be in a commercial and make $100. Seattle casting director Patti Kalles advised Courtney to audition for Paramount Pictures' Super 8, produced by Steven Spielberg, J. J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, and written and directed by J. J. Abrams. After eleven callbacks, Courtney landed the role of Joe Lamb in the film.
Alongside Jake T. Austin, Courtney will be portraying Tom Sawyer in Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, an adaptation of Mark Twain's classic, written and directed by Jo Kastner.[citation needed] Kastner and Marcus Weinhart produced the film, which was shot in August 2011 in Bulgaria.
Courtney is currently filming the supernatural thriller The Healer. In the film, the young actor plays a disgruntled teen who joins his father on a camping trip only to have a run-in with otherworldly forces. Filming is scheduled to shoot from September to October 2011 in North Carolina.
Filmography Joel Courtney