Jake Matthew Lloyd (born March 5, 1989) is an American former actor who gained worldwide fame when he was chosen by George Lucas to play the young Anakin Skywalker in the 1999 film Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, the first film in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. He reprised this role in five subsequent Star Wars video games.
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You can't go fighting everyone that's harsh towards you.
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None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives.
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I've learned to hate it when the cameras are pointed at me.
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Violence is used to portray what happens in a film. It only helps portray the actors and what they do. I think it is more about the story, when you have something to play off of.
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I had some issues. When I first had to deal with being in 'Star Wars,' you know, who wouldn't?
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Arrested on charges of resisting arrest, reckless driving, driving without a license and failure to stop in South Carolina [June 2015].
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Was formally diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2015. According to his mother, his arrest for reckless driving without a license, as well as an instance of domestic violence, was brought about due to the struggle with his condition, and a failure to take his medication.
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Was the subject of a lot of ridicule and derision for his portrayal of young Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999), which many people described as "wooden" (they even coined the nickname "Mannequin Skywalker"). However, actor/director Ron Howard, a child star himself, famously defended him in a letter to Newsweek, praising both Lloyd and the movie.
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He works at Pac Sun at an outdoor mall in Carmel, Indiana. [January 2006]
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Living normal life in Carmel, Indiana. Attends Carmel High School. [November 2002]
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Currently attends Columbia College Chicago as a Film Major. [March 2008]
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Beat out actor Justin Berfield in the auditions to play Anakin Skywalker on the Star Wars series
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Prior to appearing together in "Star Wars", he and Ewan McGregor both appeared in episodes of ER (1994).
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