Tyler Hoechlin

Tyler Lee Hoechlin (Template:IPAc-en; born September 11, 1987) is an American actor. He initially earned recognition for starring as Michael Sullivan Jr. in the 2002 film Road to Perdition. In television, Hoechlin starred as Martin Brewer on 7th Heaven from 2003 to 2007, and also became known for portraying Derek Hale on Teen Wolf (2011Template:Ndash2014; 2017), Superman in The CW's Supergirl (2016Template:Ndash2019) and Superman & Lois (2021Template:Ndash2024), and for voicing Sephiroth in the Final Fantasy VII Remake franchise.

Early life

Hoechlin was born in Corona, California, on September 11, 1987,<ref name="ASUA">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> to Lori and Don Hoechlin. He has described his family's ethnic background as "Native American, German, Irish, and some others".<ref>Template:Cite tweet</ref> Hoechlin has two brothers and an older sister.<ref name="sli">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He graduated from Santiago High School in 2006.<ref name="sli" />

Career

Baseball

Hoechlin began playing baseball at the age of seven and continued throughout high school, playing in the Area Code Games in 2004 and 2005.<ref name="sli" /> He earned a baseball scholarship to Arizona State University, where he played infield; his team made it to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska.<ref name="empire">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2008, after a year at Arizona State, he transferred to the University of California, Irvine,<ref name="empire" /> where he was second baseman for the UC Irvine Anteaters,<ref name="empire" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and also played in collegiate summer leagues.<ref name="empire" />

At first, Hoechlin aimed for a career in baseball, prioritizing it over his acting opportunities, which led him to turn down offers for auditions and meetings (including one with director Francis Ford Coppola), and to decline the role of Emmett Cullen in the Twilight films.<ref name="empire" /><ref name="Cribb">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> However, during his junior year in college, he pulled his hamstring, limiting his ability to play and practice. As a result, he participated in more acting auditions, and eventually, on the advice of his coach, made the decision to pursue acting full-time.<ref name="empire" />

Acting

As a baby, Hoechlin appeared in TV commercials. This led him to successfully audition at an acting school and obtain an agent.<ref name="empire" /><ref name="oc">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> As an older child, his first role (at age 11) was in Happy Haunting, a Disney Sing-Along Songs video.<ref name="empire" /><ref name="oc" /> At 13, Hoechlin was selected from among 2,000 auditioners to play Michael Sullivan Jr. in Road to Perdition.<ref name="road">Template:Cite magazine</ref> Hoechlin was nominated for multiple awards for the role, and won both the Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor and the Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actor.<ref name="SATURNyounger" /><ref name="YoungArtist">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> That performance led to him getting the role of Martin Brewer in the television series 7th Heaven in 2003.<ref>[1]Template:Dead link</ref> Initially booked for a two-episode arc, he was promoted to a regular character for the rest of the series.<ref name="empire" />

Hoechlin was nominated for a 2004 Teen Choice Award for Breakout Male Star for this role, and remained a regular cast member for the next four years, garnering further nominations for a Teen Choice Award and a Young Artist Award.<ref name="tc05" /><ref name="YoungArtistnom" /> The series' producers accommodated Hoechlin's baseball schedule, filming on days he did not have practice or a game, throughout high school and his first year of college.<ref name="empire" />

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Hoechlin in 2012

After 7th Heaven ended in 2007, he had small roles in other television series, including CSI: Miami, My Boys, and Castle.<ref name="yahoo">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He also returned to film work, starring in David DeCoteau's Grizzly Rage in 2007 and appearing in Solstice the following year.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He also appeared in the 2011 movie Hall Pass.<ref name="Cribb" />

Hoechlin played werewolf Derek Hale in the television series Teen Wolf. He was a regular on the show for the first four seasons, and returned as a guest star for the sixth and final season in 2017. During the early seasons of the show, filmed in Atlanta, Georgia, Hoechlin lived with co-stars Tyler Posey and Dylan O'Brien.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> BuddyTV ranked him third on its list of "TV's 100 Sexiest Men of 2011".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Throughout Teen Wolf's run, the cast won the Best Ensemble award at the 2013 Young Hollywood Awards and Hoechlin won the 2014 Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Male Scene Stealer.<ref name="YHA" /><ref name="tc14" />

After leaving Teen Wolf to pursue other work and film roles,<ref name="Cribb" /> Hoechlin was cast in Richard Linklater's baseball comedy Everybody Wants Some!!. To achieve a sense of camaraderie among the cast, they spent three weeks living together at Linklater's ranch while fine-tuning the script.<ref name="paste">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Hoechlin was able to draw upon his baseball experience for the film, in which he played team captain McReynolds.<ref name="paste" /><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> The film was released in 2016 to critical acclaim.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> That same year, Hoechlin appeared in a second baseball film, Undrafted, which, in contrast to Everybody Wants Some!!, was poorly received by critics.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He also appeared in military thriller film Stratton, released in 2017.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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Hoechlin at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con

Hoechlin was cast as Superman on the CW show Supergirl in 2016. As producer Greg Berlanti's first choice for the role, he did not have to audition.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Describing the casting as "surreal", Hoechlin said he hoped to successfully embody the optimism of the character and maintain the idea of Superman as a symbol of hope.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He appeared in four episodes of the show's second season, and was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Guest Performance on a Television Series for his work in the role.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="saturn">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His portrayal of Superman was well received by fans and critics and described as "fun" and a "breath of fresh air".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2018, Hoechlin returned to Supergirl as part of the annual Arrowverse crossover episodes, titled "Elseworlds". He also appeared in the corresponding crossover episodes of both Arrow and The Flash, which all aired in December 2018.<ref name="arrowverse2018">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Hoechlin returned to the Arrowverse for the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" episodes.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In October 2019, it was confirmed that Superman & Lois, a spin-off series starring Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch, was in development at the CW,<ref name="superman&lois">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> which picked it up straight-to-series in January 2020.<ref name="reb">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The series premiered on February 23, 2021,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and was renewed for a third season in March 2022.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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Hoechlin (right) with his Teen Wolf co-stars Colton Haynes and Holland Roden

He was cast in Fifty Shades Darker as Boyce Fox, an author, in early 2016.<ref name="50shades" /> Hoechlin did not appear in the finished film but did feature in the sequel Fifty Shades Freed, which was released in 2018.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The same year, he appeared in The Domestics, a post-apocalytic thriller, which was released on June 28.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Hoechlin starred in George Gallo's Bigger, in which he played Joe Weider. The biopic told the story of the Weider brothers' founding the International Federation of Bodybuilders.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Bigger premiered on September 13, 2018, in Las Vegas, in conjunction with the Mr. Olympia competition, and was released to cinemas in October.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The following month, teen drama Then Came You premiered at the Woodstock Film Festival. Initially titled Departures when Hoechlin was cast in February 2017, the film was released theatrically in February 2019.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In July 2019, Hoechlin appeared as Ian Yerxa in the sci-fi drama series Another Life.<ref name="anotherlife">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Two months later, Hoechlin starred in Can You Keep a Secret? as Jack Harper.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Sophie Kinsella; it began filming in October 2018.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2020, he was cast as the new voice of Sephiroth for Final Fantasy VII Remake, succeeding George Newbern.

In May 2022, he was confirmed to reprise his role as Derek Hale in Teen Wolf: The Movie, for which he also served as a producer.<ref name="TeenWolfMovie">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Template:Abbr
1998	Disney Sing-Along Songs	Zach	Segment: Happy Haunting – Party at Disneyland!	<ref name=empire /><ref name="oc" />
1999	Family Tree	Jeff Jo		<ref name="oc" />
2001	Train Quest	Billy		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2002	Road to Perdition	Michael Sullivan Jr.		<ref name="road" />
2008	Solstice	Nick
2011	Hall Pass	Gerry
	Open Gate	Kaleb		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2012	Melvin Smarty	Ricky Hershey		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2016	Everybody Wants Some!!	Glen McReynolds
	Undrafted	Jonathan "Dells" Dellamonica
2017	Stratton	Marty
2018	Bigger	Joe Weider
	The Domestics	Mark West		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Fifty Shades Freed	Boyce Fox		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Then Came You	Frank Lewis
2019	Can You Keep a Secret?	Jack Harper		<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
2020	Palm Springs	Abraham Eugene Trent "Abe" Schlieffen		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2023	Teen Wolf: The Movie	Derek Hale	Also producer	<ref name="TeenWolfMovie" />

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Template:Abbr
2003–2007	7th Heaven	Martin Brewer	Main role (seasons 8–11)
2007	CSI: Miami	Shawn Hodges	Episode: "Sunblock"
	Grizzly Rage	Wes Harding	Television film
2009	Castle	Dylan Fulton	Episode: "Fool Me Once..."
	Lincoln Heights	Tad	2 episodes	<ref name="yahoo" />
	My Boys	Owen Scott	Episode: "Spring Training"	<ref name="yahoo" />
2011–2017	Teen Wolf	Derek Hale	Main role (seasons 1–4); guest role (season 6)
2013	The Sticks	Hot Cop Clark Russell	Television film	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2016–2019	Supergirl	Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman	6 episodes	<ref name="arrowverse2018" />
2017	Hollywood Game Night	Himself	Episode: "Super Smashed Game Night"	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2018–2019	The Flash	Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman	2 episodes	<ref name="arrowverse2018" />
2018–2020	Arrow	Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman	2 episodes	<ref name="arrowverse2018" />
2019	Another Life	Ian Yerxa	Recurring role	<ref name="anotherlife" />
	Batwoman	Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman	Episode: "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Two"	<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
	Match Game	Himself	Episode: "Kenan Thompson / Ellie Kemper / Tyler Hoechlin / Sherri Shepherd / Horatio Sanz / Jillian Bell"	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2020	Legends of Tomorrow	Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman	Episode: "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Five"
2021–2024	Superman & Lois	Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman, Bizarro	Main role	<ref name="reb" />

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role	Template:Abbr
2020	Final Fantasy VII Remake	Sephiroth	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2022	Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2024	Final Fantasy VII Rebirth		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Template:Abbr
2002	Online Film & Television Association Awards	Best Youth Performance	Road to Perdition	Template:Nom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Saturn Awards	Best Performance by a Younger Actor	Road to Perdition	Template:Won	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2003	Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards	Best Young Actor/Actress	Road to Perdition	Template:Nom
	Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards	Youth in Film	Road to Perdition	Template:Nom
	Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards	Best Performance by a Youth in a Leading or Supporting Role – Male	Road to Perdition	Template:Nom
	Young Artist Award	Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actor	Road to Perdition	Template:Won	<ref name="YoungArtist" />
2004	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Breakout TV Star – Male	7th Heaven	Template:Nom
2005	Teen Choice Awards	Choice TV Actor: Drama	7th Heaven	Template:Nom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Young Artist Award	Best Performance in a TV Series (Comedy or Drama) – Leading Young Actor	7th Heaven	Template:Nom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2008	Fright Meter Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Solstice	Template:Nom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2013	Young Hollywood Awards	Best Ensemble (shared with Holland Roden, Crystal Reed, Dylan O'Brien and Tyler Posey)	Teen Wolf	Template:Won	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2014	Teen Choice Awards	Choice TV: Male Scene Stealer	Teen Wolf	Template:Won	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2017	Saturn Awards	Best Guest Performance in a Television Series	Supergirl	Template:Nom	<ref name="saturn" />
2022	Critics' Choice Super Awards	Best Actor in a Superhero Series	Superman and Lois	Template:Nom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Saturn Awards	Best Actor in a Network / Cable Series	Superman and Lois	Template:Nom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2023	Saturn Awards	Best Actor in a Television Series	Superman and Lois	Template:Nom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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