Connor Widdows Explained

Connor Widdows
Birth Date:27 January 1992
Birth Place:Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Nationality:Canadian
Years Active:1999–2011

Connor Widdows (born January 27, 1992) is a former Canadian child actor. He appeared in the second and third film adaptation of the X-Men franchise, X2 and , as Jones, a student at Professor Xavier's school who does not need sleep and can control television equipment by blinking. The character was not based on an existing mutant from the X-Men comics.

Widdows has previously appeared as Boxey on the Sci Fi Channel television program Battlestar Galactica. Widdows was slated to make several appearances as Boxey, yet never made it past the miniseries and the first few episodes. As executive producer Ronald D. Moore put it, "Boxey died a hard nasty death on the page and in the editing room, and was last seen haunting the deleted scenes area of the Sci Fi Channel website".[1]

In 2003, Widdows played Cody Banks' younger brother Alex Banks in the movie Agent Cody Banks. He maintained the role in the 2004 sequel, .

Personal life

Widdows has one younger sister, Sarah, who is also into acting.

His aunt is award-winning casting director and filmmaker Coreen Mayrs, who has been involved in casting many of the films in which Widdows appears.[2]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2000Beautiful Joe Anthony
2001Say It Isn't So Boy
Freddy Got Fingered Andy Malloy
Mile Zero Will
2002Liberty Stands Still Robbie Tyson
2003Agent Cody Banks Alex Banks
X2 Jones
2004 Alex Banks
2006 Jones
John Tucker Must Die Freshman At Beach

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ron Moore's Blog . Blog.scifi.com . October 15, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080917172632/http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/ . September 17, 2008 . mdy-all .
  2. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0563042/ Coreen Mayrs' IMDB page