Talon Reid
- Actor
- Producer
- Stunts
Talon Reid was born in Evansville, Indiana after his Mother who was a
model and father who was a motocross racer met in Los Angeles a couple
years prior. After his younger sister, Lexie, was born a year later
they (older brother Zayne, father Reid and mother Melissa) went back to
Los Angeles until he was six years old and his parent filed for
divorce. That led him to Reynoldsburg, Ohio where he attended school
all the way through college at The Ohio State University. At the young
age of thirteen he was playing in a hardcore band with friends as the
lead singer and guitarist. Several years later he was touring with his
most recent band Burning Graceland and when coming back from tour
decided he was going to go for the bigger entertainment picture in LA
in hopes to make it there and one day start his own record label. When
he got back from tour a good family friend and producer/creator of all
the Batman films, Michael Uslan, was doing a lecture at OU in
Athens,Ohio and Talon and his mother went to go to the lecture and have
dinner after. During dinner Talon gave Michael the rundown on what his
goal was. Michael told him he would have to get to either LA or New
York asap to make this happen. So Talon chose LA and told Michael 6
months from this conversation he would find a way to be there and
ready. Talon got to studying theatre in Columbus, Ohio and was in a
couple plays over the next couple months. To stay involved with the
music industry and to help out local bands get exposure at the same
time Talon started "Talonialator Productions" with the help of Steve
Boyer of Promowest Live, the largest production company in the Midwest.
With this came the Talonialator-Fest which Talon debuted the night
before packing everything into his 92' Honda Accord and driving all the
way across the country to LA. After the long road trip Talon finally
arrived in Burbank, California to meet up with his new roommate, Ty
James, who he had met at the beginning of the year in his acting
program in Columbus, Ohio and had the same goals of accomplishing
acting in LA. After a month of living in the valley they realized they
needed to be living in the heart of everything over the hill in
Hollywood, so they packed up and moved over the hill. After being there
for a couple weeks they had been in an acting program with acting
coach, Chambers Stevens, who after a month wrote a part in his web
series for Talon to play so he could immediately get a Taft Hartley and
become SAG eligible. Chambers had been talking with Talon months prior
to coming to LA through Facebook about getting him set up when he got
there. He mentored him for a bit and got him on to all the casting
sites necessary so he would be good to go for submissions right away.
After a month Talon came across a random audition on Santa Monica Blvd
for Jay-z's Video "On To The Next One" and landed one of the principle
parts. That opened some more doors for him and got a lot of
recognition. A couple weeks after that he was contacted by Infinite
Talent Agency and went in for a signing that week. The Following year
after lots of auditioning and getting into the swing of the acting
world he landed a principle part on the TV series "1000 Ways To Die"
being killed by a swarm of bee's". Then a few months later he landed
another principle role on the new live action TV series "Generator Rex"
for Cartoon Network in the UK. Auditioning a bunch and trucking along
in Hollywood, he got a part in the new movie "The Muppets" doing a
scene as a french bus boy wit Kermit The Frog. Then landing a principal
role in the new Chrysler commercial working with actor/director Adrien
Brody. After a few months of little parts here and there in various
short films and TV series he got a part in Clint Eastwood and Leonardo
DiCaprio's new film "J Edgar" as a Stunt performer fight Leo and police
office in a scene. Most Recently played vampire/bully character in the
TV movie for Nickelodeon "Fred 2" as well as co-staring as a rockabilly
guitar playing band leader in the new video "Dedication To My Ex"
Featuring Lloyd, Lil Wayne and Andre 3000.