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Jeremiah "Jerry" O'Connell (born February 17,
1974), is a Irish-American television and film
actor. He was born in New York City, and was
raised in Manhattan with his younger brother
Charlie O'Connell.  He is probably best known as
"the fat kid from Stand By Me".

O'Connell began his acting career at a young age.
As a youngster, he did commercial work for Duncan
Hines cookies. Shortly after at the age of eleven,
he landed his first feature starring role in Rob
Reiner's Stand By Me. As a teenager, he starred in
the series My Secret Identity, and attended
Manhattan's Professional Children's School.

O'Connell went on to attend New York University
(NYU) in 1992 where he majored in film and served
as captain of the saber team. While in film
school, Jerry studied screen writing and
eventually graduated in 1995 with a Bachelor of
Fine Arts from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
During a summer break from NYU, Jerry starred in
the feature film Calendar Girl along side Jason
Priestley and Gabriel Olds. He also appeared in
the short-lived ABC sitcom, Camp Wilder with Jay
Mohr and Hilary Swank in 1992. In his Junior year,
O'Connell auditioned for two TV pilots: Sliders
and Party of Five. He was offered the role of
Quinn Mallory in the TV series Sliders, which ran
for three seasons on Fox Network|Fox and two
seasons on the Sci-Fi Channel. He served as
producer during his fourth and final  season, and
is credited with writing and directing several
episodes.

O'Connell has since gone on to star in such movies
as Body Shots, Mission to Mars, Tomcats and
Kangaroo Jack. O'Connell has also tried his hand
at screenwriting and sold his first screenplay,
for First Daughter, to New Regency in 1999. The
film was released in 2004 by 20th Century
Fox-based Davis Entertainment. O'Connell served as
executive producer on the film, which was about a
young secret service agent sent to keep an eye on
the president's college-age daughter and starred
Katie Holmes.

O'Connell currently stars as Detective Woody Hoyt
on the NBC crime drama Crossing Jordan (2001), and
is dating actress/model Rebecca Romjin.

His younger brother Charlie O'Connell, also an
alumnus of NYU and who was most recently seen as
The Bachelor, has also appeared with Jerry in
several projects, and in some other roles, as
well, but is not as successful an actor.

== Filmography & TV Appearances ==
* Charles in Charge (1984) playing David Landon in
episode: "The Organization Man" (episode # 4.20)
1989 
* The Equalizer (1985) playing "Bobby" in episode:
"The Child Broker" (episode # 3.13) 1/20/1988
* Stand By Me (1986) - Vern Tessio
* The Room Upstairs (1987) (TV) - Carl
* My Secret Identity (1988) (TV Series) - Andrew
Clements
* Ollie Hopnoodles' Haven of Bliss (1989) (TV) -
Ralphie Parker
* Camp Wilder (1992) (TV Series) - Brody Wilder
* Calendar Girl (1993) - Scott Foreman
* Sliders (1995-1999) (TV Series) - Quinn Mallory
* The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky
(a.k.a. Hole in the Sky) (1995) (TV) - Mac
* Blue River (1995) (TV) - Lawrence Sellars
* Joe's Apartment (1996) - Joe
* Jerry Maguire (1996) - Frank Cushman
* What the Deaf Man Heard (1997) (TV) - Reverand
Perry Ray Pruitt
* Scream (movie)|Scream 2 (1997) - Derek
* Can't Hardly Wait (1998) - Trip McNeelly
* Tree Weeks (aka Petit sapin va loin) (Canada:
French title: TV title)(1998).... NYC Tree Buyer  
* The 60's (1999) (TV mini series) - Brian Herlihy
* Body Shots (1999) - Michael Penorisi
* Mission to Mars (2000) - Phil Ohlmyer
* Tomcats (movie)|Tomcats (2001) - Michael Delaney
* Night Visions (2001) playing Andy in episode:
"Rest Stop" (episode # 1.9) 8/2/2001
* Buying the Cow (2002) - David Collins
* The New Guy (2002) - Highland High Party Twin
* Crossing Jordan (2002 - ) - Detective Woody Hoyt
* Romeo Fire (2002) TV series pilot - Ryan Wheeler
* Kangaroo Jack (2003) - Charlie Carbone

== Producer ==
* Sliders (1995) TV Series (producer: 1998-1999)
* First Daughter (2004) 

== Director ==
* Sliders (1997) TV series - "Stoker"
* Sliders (1999) TV series - "Slidecage,"
"Lipschitz Live," "Data World," "Roads Taken"

== Writer == 
* Sliders (1999) - "Way out West", 
* First Daughter (2004) - screenplay 

== Music Videos ==
* "David Duchovny" - Bree Sharp
* "Heartbreaker (Mariah Carey song)|Heartbreaker"
- Mariah Carey (1999)

==Trivia==
Jerry O'Connell says that "there was a good six
months that I didn't have a bed at my new
apartment-- I was sleeping on a towel."

On an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, designer
Nate Berkus
redecorated Jerry O'Connell's apartment.

==External links==
*imdb name|id=0005278|name=Jerry O'Connell