[1] When he was a teenager he enrolled in an acting workshop at Edgemar Center for the Arts near Venice Beach in Santa Monica, California.
[2] As a teenager, he worked as a production assistant on some of his father's films, including Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
This was, he said, because "what the audience can give you has always energised me in a big way", whereas he had experience of seeing actors on film sets for whom there seemed to be "a lot of waiting around and there wasn't enough action.”[5] In 2012, he made his off-Broadway debut in Belgrade Trilogy at the 4th Street Theatre, using his stage name Sawyer Avery.
[6][7] He appeared in a production of The Diary of Anne Frank at the Guild Hall of East Hampton Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, New York and in 2014 directed, and had the lead role, in a staged reading of Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues at the Guild Hall's John Drew Theater.
[9] In January 2023, in New York State he began principal photography on upcoming independent film Martyr of Gowanus in which he has the lead role and appears alongside Holt McCallany.