[3] He also had studied jujitsu, played piano, trained as a hip-hop dancer, knew American sign language, and rode horses.

[3] He spent summer 2004 away from auditions to play Little League Baseball; his team (the Robbinsdale All-Stars) won the Minnesota state title that year but did not go to the World Series after losing the Indianapolis regionals.

[7] Originally scheduled to debut theatrically in 2010, the film was moved to October 2009 to "capitalize on the Halloween season",[8] and opened a month prior to another highly anticipated vampire picture, The Twilight Saga: New Moon.

[9] His follow-up project was the 3-D horror film The Hole, directed by Joe Dante,[10][11][12] He went on to play the elder incarnation of Sam, Zac Efron's brother in Charlie St.

His performance has not won raves; motion picture industry trade publication Variety said, "The production puts far too much faith in the appeal of newcomer Chris Massoglia, who plays Darren Shan, a rule-abiding, good-grade-earning conformist with the shaggy coif and bland, gumdrop charm of your average Nickelodeon character.

He stood on the policies of not implementing a city sales tax, making sure that there were more firemen and that a new fire station was built, more transparency in government, and smart sustainable growth in Blaine.