Andrew Bowen

Andrew Bowen's career began after seeing the movie Grease and announcing to his parents that he "wanted to be like John Travolta when he grow up." Raised in Vermont, Andrew spent his youth studying Modern Jazz/Ballet, appearing in dozens of local theater productions (from Pippin to Guys and Dolls), immersing himself in Marvel comics and the movies of John Hughes, James Cameron, Steven Spielberg and more. A bit of good luck (a director chose his grandmother's house to shoot a commercial at) landed Andrew an agent in New York and at 18 landed his first role as George Stark (Katheryn Erby's love interest) in the Bill Murray/Richard Dreyfuss comedy What About Bob? While working on the film, Andrew often spent lunches talking movie with the late actor/novelist Roger Bowen (no relation) who felt Andrew had storytelling abilities and encouraged him to learn screenwriting. Before the film's release, director Frank Oz informed Andrew that the bulk of his role ended up on the cutting room floor. Despite becoming "the extra" that just wouldn't go away., Andrew headed the Los Angeles to continue his acting ambitions and studied screenwriting classes at USC. Andrew booked his first commercial almost immediately, started building up his acting resume and found a growing interest in directing. His first big acting break came a few years later when he was cast as the lead in Capcom's a live-action interactive video game Fox Hunt. Andrew shined as Jack Fremont - a 'James Bond meets Dumb and Dumber' type character. The role gave Andrew a chance to not only showcase his comedic and dramatic acting chips but skills in martial arts and physical comedy. The game ended up being so funny, is was turned into a feature film, developed as a TV series and landed Andrew his first Talent Deal at Warner Brothers. While waiting for the pilot to be shot, Bowen wrote, directed, and starred in a short film as an auditioning piece to play Peter Parker for director James Cameron (who was attached to make the Spider-Man movie). Although Cameron's film fell through, the short solidified Andrew's interest in becoming a filmmaker and he began writing "Along The Way": a very personal and tragic coming of age story he planned to make as his directorial debut. After the Fox Hunt pilot was not picked up, Andrew joined the cast of Fox's sketch comedy series "Mad TV". TV Guide quickly called Andrew one of the "New Talents to watch" due in no small part to his hilarious physical comedy and uncanny impressions of such celebrities as Keanu Reeves and Nicolas Cage. After a season on the show - and with financing help of his father - Andrew made "Along the Way". Aside from his writing, directing and producing duties, Bowen gained over 40lbs to play the films tragic outsider, Jocko. A year later, after rave reviews and a ~ Best Feature~ win at the Wilmington International Film Festival, Bowen's hopes of releasing his film were dashed when he discovered his producer (and personal friend) had performed a series of illegal activities during production locking the film in a legal firestorm that kept it from being released for 12 years. That same year Andrew saw the birth of his twins and discovered that his eldest son had Autism. With a growing family and a son with special needs, Andrew sidelined his writing and directing ambitions to continue securing acting work . Andrew found steady work appearing in hundreds of commercials, dozen's of independent films, TV shows and voice over - working with such high caliber talents as Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead), Dean Devlin (Independence Day), James Mangold (Walk The Line), Lasse Hallstrom (What's Eating Gilbert Grape) and Jason Reitman (Juno, Up In The Air). Some notable credits include starring opposite Uma Thurman in The Gift, as Reggie in the horror anthology Holidays, recurring role's on Magic City, guest appearances on Shameless, NCIS, NCIS:LA, Leverage and more. Andrew had also lent his voice talent to numerous major brands campaigns (including Lexus, McDonalds and Jeep) and some of the biggest video game titles of all time including voicing Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat X. In 2016, after loosing his father to cancer, Andrew decided re-direct his focus back to directing and began by penning his baby: The McCauliffe Equation. A year later, Bowen got back behind the camera again writing, directing, producing and acting in an ambitious comedic, sci-fi short film he created called The 716th. With a 10K production budget, Andrew had to take on production design, art department duties and ended up editing the film himself. The hard work paid off as the film world premiered a year later at The 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. The film was embraced by critics and fans and was just released on Prime Video. Andrew has already partnered with Rogue Initiative, Circle of Confusion and Jackoway Tyerman to make the short into a Film/TV series . - IMDb Mini Biography By: Andrew Bowen