He is known for playing Ray Aibelli in Spanking the Monkey (1994), Corporal Timothy Upham in Saving Private Ryan (1998), Snow in Solaris (2002), Bill Henson in Dogville (2003), Charles Manson in Helter Skelter (2004), Sergeant Gene DeBruin in Rescue Dawn (2006) and Daniel Faraday on the series Lost (2008–2010).

Jeremy Davies was born in Traverse City, Michigan, of Scottish and Welsh descent, the son of children's author Melvin Lyle "Mel" Boring.

[4] Numerous casting directors and industry forces noticed the commercial, and Davies found himself being sent feature film scripts.

[5] In 1998, he landed a pivotal role in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan as Corporal Upham,[3] 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).

"[6] Davies appeared as a main cast member on Lost during its fourth and fifth seasons (2008–09),[3] playing Daniel Faraday, an amnesiac physicist who comes to the island as part of a team hired by Charles Widmore.

[7] He had a recurring role on FX's Justified as Dickie Bennett,[3] for which he earned a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2012.