Hunter Gomez
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Hunter Gomez (born December 20, 1991 in Mesa, Arizona) is an American actor. He is probably most widely recognized for his role as the young Ben Gates (played as an adult by Nicolas Cage) in the film National Treasure and his voiceover work for the Fox show Family Guy.
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[edit] Career
Since beginning his career in the entertainment business in 2003 at the age of 12, Gomez has worked directly with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including Jon Voight, Christopher Plummer, Jessica Simpson and Jim Belushi. He has also worked with Robert Picardo, Jane Sibbett, Matt McCoy and Seth MacFarlane. He has enjoyed working with Hollywood's younger set as well through guest-starring roles in The Suite Life of Zack and Cody with the Sprouse twins and Ned's Declassified's Devon Werkheiser.
Aside from Nicolas Cage, Gomez has also played the younger versions of many other big celebrities such as Justin Timberlake, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Picardo and Goose Gossage in both films and on television. John Henson having once remarked on television that Gomez reminded him of a "young DeNiro."
Gomez is currently attached to several new projects including: [1]
- Villain (2008/II) (pre-production) (voice) .... Electron
- Conditional Love (2008) (pre-production) .... Trent Walker
[edit] Charity work
Gomez is becoming as well known for his charity work as he is for his acting. He donates some of every check to charity and spends countless hours doing charity work for many great causes. In 2006 he started a charity food drive called The Gomez Family Food Drive with his siblings (he has four, three sisters and a brother) Hunter put up $5,000 of his own money to offer as thank you donations to the groups that brought in the most cans. [2] The food drive raised over 100,000 cans for the less fortunate. He supports many children's charities and even recently used the money from his recent appearance on The Suite Life to sponsor a child through Compassion. Gomez has said that while he might not have the kind of money that big stars have he will use the money he does have and his time to help anyone he can. He also supports MADD and will be doing work for them starting July of 2007.
He has also been involved in politics both on a local and national level. He did a press conference at the Capitol with Ricky Schroeder and spoke, sharing information about the film industry in hopes of getting a bill passed to offer incentives to film makers.
Gomez has also donated thousands and appeared at fundraising events for Senator John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign. He has read letters to Senator McCain at a fundraising dinner. These letters had been sent to Gomez from young military personnel with hopes that he could share them with his hometown senator from Arizona. These letters from the young service men thanked Senator McCain for his support of the troops and shared their support for the senator. Holding these letters from the servicemen to read at the dinner, the young actor was seated at the head of the table between Senator and Mrs. McCain. Senator McCain said he was very touched, humbled and honored by what the letters said and thanked Gomez for sharing them with him.
[edit] Additional info
- Gomez claims that has always loved doing charity work and began doing it as a very young child. His first notable act of kindness came at the age of 4 when he gave his own bed away (with his parents permission) to a child that had been living in a car. The Gomez family had adopted the family and Hunter wanted to do his part.
- He loves animals and has several rescue animals.
- He was on the cover of Teen Trend Magazine.
- He is a top student and education is a top priority for him. His future plans include going into medicine (as his back up plan to acting) in the field of pediatrics, as he loves children. He is also interested possibly in pursuing a future career in politics.
- He has traveled extensively to several other countries including Russia, Ireland, England, Mexico, Italy, France and many more including Cambodia in which he did missionary work with his school, which help support land mine victims and the orphans in Cambodia.
[edit] References
- ^ IMDB page http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1549341/
- ^ Page 1
[edit] Additional resources
- http://www.huntergomez.com/ For photos and additional information on his charity work he has a website with stories and pictures of his trip to Cambodia and his other charities.
