Jacob Tremblay is a Canadian actor. He began acting at the age of five and made his film debut as Blue Winslow in The Smurfs 2 (2013). His breakout performance came for starring as Jack Newsome in Room (2015), for which he received critical acclaim and won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer and was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role.

Tremblay was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, on October 5, 2006. He was raised in the nearby city of Langley, British Columbia. He attended Gordon Greenwood Elementary. His father, Jason Tremblay, is a police detective, and his mother, Christina Candia Tremblay, is a homemaker. Tremblay's older sister, Emma, and younger sister, Erica, are also film actors.

In 2013, Tremblay made his film debut playing one of the lead roles as Blue Winslow in the live-action animated film The Smurfs 2, alongside Neil Patrick Harris. The film was directed by Raja Gosnell and released on July 31, 2013 by Columbia Pictures. Tremblay portrayed Jack Newsome in the acclaimed drama film Room, co-starring with Brie Larson. The film, directed by Lenny Abrahamson, premiered on September 4, 2015 at the Telluride Film Festival, and was released in cinemas on October 16, 2015, by A24 Films. For his performance, he is nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role, becoming the second youngest performer nominated for that award.

Tremblay has a supporting role in the psychological thriller Shut In, co-starring Naomi Watts and Oliver Platt. Farren Blackburn directed the film, which is scheduled for a June 17, 2016 release. He has a lead role in the horror film Before I Wake, starring opposite Kate Bosworth and Thomas Jane, set for release on April 8, 2016. He will then portray Wes Firth in the adventure comedy-drama Burn Your Maps, starring alongside Vera Farmiga and Marton Csokas. The film, directed by Jordan Roberts, will be released in 2016. Tremblay will then appear in The Book of Henry, directed by Colin Trevorrow.

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