{{short description|American actor}} {{Infobox person | image = | caption = Jarrett Maier 2017 | birthname = | birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, United States | occupation = Actor | website = www.jarrettmaier.me }}
'''Jarrett Maier''' (born July 11, 1998) is an American actor known for playing Hugh Hefner as a teenager in the Amazon Studios series ''American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story''.<ref>{{cite web|title=American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story Cast|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5968748/|website=IMDb.com|publisher=IMDb.com}}</ref>
==Early life== Maier was born in Chicago, Illinois, but grew up in the city of Lafayette, Indiana. He attended McCutcheon High School where he began to show interest in the performing arts. He returned to Chicago to continue his acting career in 2016.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Tokarzewski|first1=Derek|title=Jarrett Maier interview with World Class Movie Stars Magazine|url=https://worldclassmoviestarsmagazine.wordpress.com/2017/05/18/jarrett-maier-interview-with-world-class-movie-stars/|work=Worldclass Magazine|publisher=Worldclass Magazine|archive-date=2018-01-05|access-date=2018-01-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105123103/https://worldclassmoviestarsmagazine.wordpress.com/2017/05/18/jarrett-maier-interview-with-world-class-movie-stars/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Career== Maier made his official screen debut in 2014's Holocaust drama film ''Your Ever After'' which formed his partnership with director Tre Manchester. "Your Ever After" went on to screen at the 2015 River Bend Film Festival,<ref>{{cite web|title=River Bend Film Festival Program|url=https://riverbendfilmfest.com/previous-festivals/2015-festival/2015-lineup/|website=River Bend Film Festival}}</ref> at that point located in South Bend, Indiana before the festival moved to Goshen, Indiana.
Jarrett went on to star<ref>{{cite news|last1=Singh|first1=Nikita|title=Movie premieres at Lafayette Theater on Saturday|url=https://www.purdueexponent.org/features/article_ace0e367-d32c-54c2-a0b1-43b33a397d5f.html|work=Purdue Exponent|publisher=Purdue Exponent}}</ref> in the 2017 drama film ''The Things We've Seen (2017 film)'', opposite actors Randy Ryan and Jordon Hodges. He portrayed the fictional character of Reagan Boem,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Bongiovanni|first1=Domenica|title=McCutcheon student lands lead role in film|url=http://www.jconline.com/story/entertainment/movies/2015/07/19/mccutcheon-student-lands-lead-role-film/30378585/|work=Lafayette Journal & Courier|publisher=Lafayette Journal & Courier}}</ref> who sets off to find his fugitive father in an economically depressed, Midwestern United States town.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Molina|first1=Alex|title=The Things We've Seen's Gritty Drama|url=http://www.microfilmmaker.com/2017/08/thingsseen_retro/|publisher=Microfilmmaker Magazine}}</ref> ''The Things We've Seen'' would go on to screen around the United States, winning seven awards and four nominations at multiple film festivals.
For his work in the film,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Bongiovanni|first1=Domenica|title=Film starring McCutcheon grad premieres in Lafayette|url=http://www.jconline.com/story/entertainment/movies/2017/01/05/film-starring-mccutcheon-grad-premieres-lafayette/96122696/|work=Lafayette Journal & Courier|publisher=Lafayette Journal & Courier}}</ref> Maier was awarded the ''Rising Star Award'' at the 50th Worldfest Houston International Film Festival.<ref>{{cite web|title=The 50th WorldFest Houston " Best Actor Nominations" and more|url=https://www.filmfestivals.com/blog/worldfest_houston/the_50th_worldfest_houston_best_actor_nominations_and_more|website=FilmFestivals.com|publisher=Worldfest Houston}}</ref> The Houston Critics Choice Society also nominated him for "Best Supporting Actor".<ref>{{cite news|title=WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival Wraps 50th Season ~ Where Indie Films Take Off…!|url=http://stylemagazine.com/news/2017/may/03/worldfest-houston-international-film-festival-wrap/?page=2|work=Houston Style Magazine|publisher=Houston Style Magazine}}</ref> At the MayDay Film Festival, Maier was awarded "Best Actor" for his role as Reagan.<ref>{{cite web|title=MayDay Film Festival Program|url=https://www.maydayfilmfestival.com/|publisher=MayDay Film Festival}}</ref>
In 2017, he also appeared in the Docudrama American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story, produced by Stephen David Entertainment and distributed by Amazon Studios, where he portrayed Hugh Hefner as a teenager, before he built the Playboy empire.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Fienberg|first1=Daniel|title='American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story': TV Review|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/american-playboy-hugh-hefner-story-review-991923|work=Hollywood Reporter|publisher=Hollywood Reporter}}</ref>
==Filmography==
===Film=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- | 2014 | ''Your Ever After'' | Franz | |- | 2017 | ''Beware of the Klowns'' | Clown Boy | |- | 2017 | ''The Things We've Seen'' | Reagan Boem | |- |}
===Television=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Title ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Role ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Episodes |- |2017 |''American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story'' |Teen Hugh Hefner |"Before the Bunny: Marilyn Monroe"<br>"My Way" |}
== Awards == * "Best Actor" | MayDay Film Festival * "Rising Star Award" | 50th Worldfest Houston International Film Festival
== Nominations == * "Best Supporting Actor" | Houston Critic's Choice Society
==External links== * {{IMDb name|6570867|Jarrett Maier}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Maier, Jarrett}} Category:Living people Category:American male film actors Category:21st-century American male actors Category:Male actors from Indiana Category:People from Lafayette, Indiana Category:1998 births