Thomas Dekker (actor)

Thomas Alexander Dekker (born December 28, 1987) is an American actor, musician, singer, director and producer.

Dekker portrayed Jesse Braun in the 2010 remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Smith in Gregg Araki's film Kaboom.

His mother, Hilary (née Williams), is a concert pianist, acting coach, actor, and singer from Wales, and his late father, David John Ellis Dekker, was an American artist, set designer, opera singer, and actor[1][2] of English and Dutch ancestry.

Dekker has won three Young Artist Awards for his work in The Land Before Time films and one for his guest appearance on Boston Public.

[10] In April 2011, Dekker starred as Lance Loud in the HBO original film Cinema Verite, about the creation of America's first reality television series, An American Family.

Dekker played the role of Adam, the male lead on the television series The Secret Circle developed by The CW.

[12] Dekker was a regular on the 2015 Fox crime drama Backstrom, playing Gregory Valentine, the gay underworld contact and roommate of Rainn Wilson's title character, revealed to be his half-brother.

At the age of sixteen, Dekker started writing and producing his own classical music influenced by electronica which he describes as "electrofolk".

"[15] Dekker was involved in an auto accident on October 15, 2009, when he hit a 17-year-old cyclist training for a race on a freeway onramp.

[23]On July 13, 2017, Dekker came out as gay and revealed that he married Canadian actor Jesse Haddock in April that year.

Dekker on a panel at the 2008 Comic-Con