Graham Phillips (actor)

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Graham Phillips
Born	Graham Phillips April 14, 1993 (1993-04-14) (age 15) Norwalk, Ohio
Other name(s)	Graham

Graham Phillips (born April 14, 1993) is an American actor born in Norwalk, Ohio. Graham recently played the lead role in Ben 10 - Race Against Time. This live-action movie is the #1 telecast in Cartoon Network history. Phillips brings to life the role of Ben Tennyson, which is based on the popular kid’s animation show.

Graham recently returned to his home in Laguna Beach, California from months on location working on several projects. He recently completed a leading role in the feature film Evan Almighty starring Steve Carell and Morgan Freeman which premiered June 22, 2007. This fall he completed working on the feature film Boy in a Box starring Josh Lucas. Prior to that he was in New York City where he played the title role in The Little Prince with The New York City Opera at Lincoln Center. The New York Times called Phillips’ performance as The Little Prince “smashing.” [1] From there Phillips went directly into the world premiere of An American Tragedy at The Metropolitan Opera where he played the part of Young Clyde, both opening and closing the opera with a solo.

Phillips’ other professional stage productions include A Christmas Carol-The Musical on Broadway performed at Madison Square Garden where he sang the role of Tiny Tim to Jim Dale’s Scrooge; The Ten Commandments-the Musical with Val Kilmer at The Kodak Theater in Los Angeles. Phillips, at ten years old, was the youngest person to sing the National Anthem to open a Los Angeles Dodgers Baseball Game. He has also debuted original songs composed by Martin Charnin and John Kander in New York.

Phillips’ television credits include Crossing Jordan, Judging Amy, King of Queens, and a Hallmark Movie titled Love’s Long Journey, as well as appearing twice on The Today Show as a soloist. Phillips has recorded a solo composed by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz for the film Noel starring Robin Williams and Susan Sarandon. He also was a soloist on Meat Loaf’s “Bat out of Hell 3” album. Graham Phillips had also recently recorded a new song called "The Love is On" of which a clip is available at http://www.flavapuffmusic.com/graham_phillips.php.