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Jerad Anderson - Aaron
Jerad Anderson was too consumed with gymnastics, wrestling, skateboarding and surfing to have trod the boards in school. “Acting was an idea that always had floated around inside me,” he affirms, “but it didn’t surface until after college when I had to decide what to do with my life.” Armed with a degree in communications from San Diego State in 2003, he traveled north to seek his fortune in Hollywood.
Jerad enrolled in his first acting class, and after a four-month stint at Blockbuster, he met his manager while working out at a Westwood gym. Forthwith, he found an agent and landed a Toyota commercial. A guest role on ER as a patient with an arrow in his stomach followed two weeks later, and the following week, he was cast as series regular on Nickelodeon’s “Just for Kicks.”
Anderson, who worked at a surf shop and sold computers throughout his college years, credits his parents with emphasizing education and keeping him grounded. Individual sports helped him develop self-discipline and concentration, which he maintains helped prepare him for acting. He focused on gymnastics from third grade through sophomore year in high school, competing throughout California, and then turned his attention to wrestling. “That was my life in high school. Every now and then I’d get injured and have to take a break.”
The self-described “health freak and closet computer nerd” currently spends his off-hours reading, playing the guitar, skateboarding, surfing and working out. An inveterate traveler, he ventured to Africa on safari with his family, as well as throughout Europe and to Australia, Tahiti, Jamaica and the Bahamas. Anderson is fluent in sign language, which he learned from his deaf college roommate, studied as a foreign language and taught as an assistant in San Diego State’s foreign language department.

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