Graham Phillips (actor)
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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 kids' animation show.
Graham most recently finished his starring role as Evan Goldman in the musical comedy 13. This production was directed by Jeremy Sams at the Goodspeed's Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, CT. which finished its final performance on June 8th of this year.[1]
He is currently on a family vacation overseas and will return to begin rehearsal for the opening of the musical 13 on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre slated to open this coming September 16th. He previously had a leading role in the feature film Evan Almighty starring Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman and Lauren Graham which premiered June 22, 2007. Where she also dating a guy from Birmingham, England Tomas James Cross. Tomas was also born in 1993.
In the fall of 2007 he completed working on the feature film The Boy in the 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." [2] 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 Theatre 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, The 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 III 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.