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Jesse McCartney was born on April 9, 1987 in New York City, New York to Ginger and Scot McCartney. He has enjoyed acting since a very early age and in
1994, at age seven he was in a national tour of The King and I and also had some other acting roles on and off Broadway (Oliver, A Christmas Carol, Annie Get Your Gun).
In 1998, he received
his big break in television as Adam Chandler, Jr. on the daytime soap All My Children. He appeared on the show until 2001. During his tenure on the show he won the 2001 Young Artist Award for Best
Performance in a Daytime TV Series - Young Actor and the 2001 Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Drama Series - Supporting Young Actor. He was also nominated for the 2000 Young Artist Award
for Best Performance in a Soap Opera - Young Actor, 2001 Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Child Actor, and the 2001 and 2002 Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama
Series.
His other passion is music and his first group, the Sugar Beats, was nominated for a Grammy award for their self titled album Sugar Beats.
He performs with his band which consists of
Dillon Kondor [lead guitarist], Katie Spencer [background vocals, keyboardist], Alex Russek [drummer], Pete Chema [bass guitarist], Sharisse Francisco [background vocals], and Karina LaGravinesse
[background vocals]. They recently toured the east coast Jesse was cast as Bradin for the TV show 'Summerland' starring Lori Laughlin. He filmed the 12 episode series in California which aired in
2004 as a mid-season series which also returned in 2005.
Earlier he played himself in "The Biggest Fan" (2002) and also had arole in Pizza (2005).
His hobbies include: playing
baseball (and all sports - he was a pitcher on his HS team), skiing, surfing and playing video games.
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