JD Evermore
- Actor
- Editor
- Producer
J.D. was born in the delta town of Greenville, Mississippi (also the
birthplace of Muppets creator Jim Henson) on the same day Richard Nixon
was elected president. He is of Irish-French-German-Cherokee-Choctaw
decent, the oldest of 7 siblings, and attended 17 different schools
(public and private) while moving back and forth between his mother and
father. His great-great-great-great uncle was Horace Mann, the founder
of the American Public School system. His father (Puddin - yep, that's
what they call him) is a welder/artist/amateur archaeologist and
inventor. His mother (Sally) has had many professions, including
concert promoter and owner of a country/western nightclub called The
Headless Horseman, where as a young child, J.D. spent many school
nights until the wee hours of the morning hanging out backstage and on
stage with the likes of Hank Williams, Jr., Juice Newton, Jerry Lee
Lewis, Johnny Paycheck, David Allen Coe, Ray Price, and many others.
After a short stint in college and a 15 month stint in the Marine Corps
stationed at 29 Palms, California and after hanging out with some
actors in L.A., J.D. thought he would give acting a shot. His only
experience with acting had been playing the Prince in his pre-school
production of The Nutcracker, and getting kicked out of his senior
play, Oklahoma, after his second rehearsal because he and a friend
drank a beer before hand. After the Marine Corps, he returned to
Mississippi and worked as a debt collector for his mother's collection
agency. After a year of hating his job, he decided to return to college
and get a degree in theatre at The University of Southern Mississippi.
Once on stage at college, he knew acting was what he had to do. His
second year in theatre, he was one of 20 finalists in the state
selected to attend SETC (Southeastern Theatre Conference). In 1995, a
friend offered J.D. a $1,000 to come to Los Angeles and perform a lead
role in his play "Dylan's Ghost" at the Morgan-Wixson Theatre in Santa
Monica. J.D. took him up on the offer and left college a semester
before graduating and since then has lived back and forth between
Hollywood, California, Austin, Texas, and Oxford, Mississippi, where he
just completed writing and directing his first independent feature
_Glorious Mail(2005)_.
Even though he appeared on the short-lived game show, Hollywood
Showdown with Todd Newton and won nearly $12,000, his friends like to
tell him that he's almost one lucky son of a gun. Mainly because he's
come so close to landing lead roles in major films so many times,
usually being the director's second choice. In 2004 his luck proved
true once again when he purchased a $100 raffle ticket and was 1st
Runner Up (2nd Choice) for a $250,000 house in United Way's New Home
Giveaway, where instead he won an artist's print worth $80.
birthplace of Muppets creator Jim Henson) on the same day Richard Nixon
was elected president. He is of Irish-French-German-Cherokee-Choctaw
decent, the oldest of 7 siblings, and attended 17 different schools
(public and private) while moving back and forth between his mother and
father. His great-great-great-great uncle was Horace Mann, the founder
of the American Public School system. His father (Puddin - yep, that's
what they call him) is a welder/artist/amateur archaeologist and
inventor. His mother (Sally) has had many professions, including
concert promoter and owner of a country/western nightclub called The
Headless Horseman, where as a young child, J.D. spent many school
nights until the wee hours of the morning hanging out backstage and on
stage with the likes of Hank Williams, Jr., Juice Newton, Jerry Lee
Lewis, Johnny Paycheck, David Allen Coe, Ray Price, and many others.
After a short stint in college and a 15 month stint in the Marine Corps
stationed at 29 Palms, California and after hanging out with some
actors in L.A., J.D. thought he would give acting a shot. His only
experience with acting had been playing the Prince in his pre-school
production of The Nutcracker, and getting kicked out of his senior
play, Oklahoma, after his second rehearsal because he and a friend
drank a beer before hand. After the Marine Corps, he returned to
Mississippi and worked as a debt collector for his mother's collection
agency. After a year of hating his job, he decided to return to college
and get a degree in theatre at The University of Southern Mississippi.
Once on stage at college, he knew acting was what he had to do. His
second year in theatre, he was one of 20 finalists in the state
selected to attend SETC (Southeastern Theatre Conference). In 1995, a
friend offered J.D. a $1,000 to come to Los Angeles and perform a lead
role in his play "Dylan's Ghost" at the Morgan-Wixson Theatre in Santa
Monica. J.D. took him up on the offer and left college a semester
before graduating and since then has lived back and forth between
Hollywood, California, Austin, Texas, and Oxford, Mississippi, where he
just completed writing and directing his first independent feature
_Glorious Mail(2005)_.
Even though he appeared on the short-lived game show, Hollywood
Showdown with Todd Newton and won nearly $12,000, his friends like to
tell him that he's almost one lucky son of a gun. Mainly because he's
come so close to landing lead roles in major films so many times,
usually being the director's second choice. In 2004 his luck proved
true once again when he purchased a $100 raffle ticket and was 1st
Runner Up (2nd Choice) for a $250,000 house in United Way's New Home
Giveaway, where instead he won an artist's print worth $80.