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BIOGRAPHY

Trent Ford
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The son of an Army test pilot, Trent Ford was born January 16, 1979 in Cleveland but attended high school in 18 different cities.

Much of his adolescence was spent growing up in England and he went on to become a student of prestigious Cambridge University. While still at university, he flew to Canada to film his screen debut in Deeply (2000) opposite Kirsten Dunst.

Next, he filmed a role in Robert Altman’s Gosford Park (2001), shot in England, before returning to the land of his birth to film Slap Her... She’s French (2002). After graduating from Cambridge, Ford moved full time to the United States and was chosen to play Mandy Moore’s love interest in the feature film How to Deal (2003).

His TV debut came playing the recurring role of Jean Paul in several episodes of NBC’s drama series The West Wing (2002/2003).

A recent graduate of Cambridge, Ford is currently living in Los Angeles, Juggling acting with modeling and getting a handle on his many personalities.

Interview with ANDREA MEYER
Q: Are you still modeling?

Answer: From time to time. I've had the privilege of working with photographers like Bruce Weber on an Abercrombie & Fitch campaign, and stuff like that. It's fun. It's a wonderful way to spend a day, to have a bunch of disparate people chase one common aesthetic image.

Q:You've got a burgeoning acting career and a solid on-the-side job to fall back on--things must be looking pretty good from where you're sitting.

Answer: Well, I'm 24. I don't have a good credit rating yet, and I don't get to be a delinquent anymore, either. James Dean, Keats, all the poets were on their way out at my age. I'll be alright, I think, as long as I don't do anything dumb in the next 10 years. But that's a lot to ask. [pauses] Some people think before they jump off a wall, some people think whether to get up on the wall at all, and I think as I'm jumping off the wall. And generally what I'm thinking is, Oh shit! [laughs]

Q:Which means?

Answer: It means you break a lot of bones, but it also means you have a hell of a lot of fun.

Filmography:

Awake (2005/II) (post-production)
Awake (2005) (completed)
How to Deal (2003) .... Macon Forrester
Slap Her... She's French (2002) .... Ed
Gosford Park (2001) .... Jeremy Blond
Deeply (2000) .... James