Jeremy Boring (born October 8, 1969), known professionally as Jeremy Davies, is an American actor. He is known for playing Ray Aibelli in Spanking the Monkey (1994), Corporal Timothy Upham in Saving Private Ryan (1998), Private Toffler in Ravenous (1999), Snow in Solaris (2002), Bill Henson in Dogville (2003), Charles Manson in Helter Skelter (2004), Sergeant Gene DeBruin in Rescue Dawn (2006), Daniel Faraday on the series Lost (2008–2010), and Dickie Bennett in the series Justified (2011–2015).

Davies won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2012 for his work in Justified. He also received the BAFTA Award for Best Performance in a Video Game for his role as Baldur in God of War (2018).

Early life Davies was born on October 8, 1969. His parents separated when he was young, leaving him to relocate to Kansas with his mother until the mid-1970s, when she died of lupus. He went to live with his father and his stepmother in Santa Barbara, California, before moving to Rockford, Iowa in 1986, where he completed high school. He attended college at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in California, in the class of 1990.

Career In 1991, he played Roger, Robin's first boyfriend, in General Hospital. In 1992, he appeared on two episodes of The Wonder Years. He appeared in small roles in the NBC TV film Shoot First: A Cop's Vengeance and in the pilot for the colonial-era sitcom 1775. He played a youth in the Showtime thriller Guncrazy and had a guest appearance on Melrose Place. In 1993, Davies was cast in a TV commercial for Subaru in which his character compares the car to punk rock. Numerous casting directors and industry forces noticed the commercial, and Davies found himself being sent feature film scripts. Critics embraced his performance in David O. Russell's debut film, the black comedy Spanking the Monkey.

In 1998, he landed a pivotal role in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan as Corporal Upham, an American GI linguist in Normandy, recruited just after the Normandy landings by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) to be the interpreter on a dangerous mission to rescue the film's eponymous paratrooper (Matt Damon). Davies' performance was well received, and he went on to appear in several films, including CQ, Secretary, and Solaris. In 2004, he portrayed Charles Manson in CBS's adaptation of Helter Skelter. In 2006, he appeared in Rescue Dawn. Werner Herzog, who directed Davies in Rescue Dawn, described Davies as "a unique, very significant talent", asserting that "anywhere in the world, there [are] very, very few actors of his calibre."

Davies appeared as a main cast member on Lost during its fourth and fifth seasons (2008–09), playing Daniel Faraday, an amnesiac physicist who comes to the island as part of a team hired by Charles Widmore. He guest-starred in three episodes in Losts sixth season. He had a recurring role on FX's Justified as Dickie Bennett, for which he earned a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2012. He was also nominated for the award in 2011. In 2014, Davies appeared in two episodes of Hannibal. He starred in the History Channel's 2015 miniseries Texas Rising, as Sergeant Ephraim Knowles. This was his second role in a production with Bill Paxton, the first being 1996's film Twister. In the 2017 TV drama American Gods he plays one version of Jesus Christ, and in the 2018 video game God of War, he provided the voice and motion capture for Baldur.

Filmography

Film Year Title Role Notes 1992 Guncrazy Bill 1775 Scruffy Kid Short film 1994 Spanking the Monkey Ray Aibelli Nominated—Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance Nell Billy Fisher 1996 Twister Brian Laurence 1997 Going All the Way Williard "Sonny" Burns The Locusts Flyboy 1998 Saving Private Ryan Corporal Timothy "Tim" Upham Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting ActorOnline Film Critics Society Award for Best Ensemble Cast PerformanceNominated—Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Best Supporting Actor – DramaNominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture 1999 Ravenous Private Toffler The Florentine Truby 2000 The Million Dollar Hotel Tom Tom Up at the Villa Karl Richter 2001 Investigating Sex Oscar CQ Paul 2002 Teknolust Sandy Secretary Peter Searching for Paradise Adam 29 Palms The Drifter Solaris Snow Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture 2003 Dogville Bill Henson 2005 Manderlay Niels 2006 Rescue Dawn Gene 2010 It's Kind of a Funny Story Smitty 2017 Justice League Dark Ritchie Simpson (voice) Direct-to-video 2018 The House That Jack Built Al 2021 The Black Phone Terrence Blake 2022 The Infernal Machine Elijah BarettBitcon Lew2023 Dark Harvest Dan Shepard Adventures of the Naked Umbrella Sam Wanoutsky 2025 Black Phone 2 Terrence Blake

Television Year Title Role Notes 1991 Dream On Mugger #3 Episode: "No, I'm Just Happy to See You" Shoot First: A Cop's Vengeance White Punk Television film 1992 General Hospital Roger The Wonder Years Eddie Horvath 2 episodes Melrose Place Pete Stoller Episode: "The Whole Truth" 2001 The Atlantis Conspiracy Flush Television film 2002 The Laramie Project Jedadiah Schultz Television filmNominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film 2004 Helter Skelter Charles Manson Television film 2008–2010 Lost Daniel Faraday 23 episodesNominated—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television 2011–2015 Justified Dickie Bennett 20 episodesPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series 2014 Hannibal Peter Bernardone 2 episodes Constantine Ritchie Simpson Episodes: "Non Est Asylum" and "A Whole World Out There" 2015 Texas Rising Sergeant Ephraim Knowles 5 episodes 2016 Lucifer Nick Hofmeister Episode: "Lucifer, Stay. Good Devil." 2017 Sleepy Hollow Malcolm Dreyfuss 13 episodes American Gods Jesus Prime Episode: "Come to Jesus" Twin Peaks Jimmy Episode: "Part 6" 2018 The Flash Dr. John Deegan Episode: "Elseworlds" Arrow Supergirl2020FBIKenneth BatesEpisode: "Hard Decisions"The RookieDetective Bill SummerlandEpisode: "Hand-off"

Video games Year Title Role Notes 2018 God of War The Stranger / Baldur BAFTA Games Award for Best PerformerNominated—NAVGTR Award for Performance in a Drama, Supporting 2022 God of War Ragnarök Baldur

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