Jaren Lewison grew up playing football and expressing his love for the theatre and the art of acting. He was not even ten years old when young Jaren got the role of Joshua in the hit children’s program Barney & Friends. He was maintaining an academic career as well as pushing forward his dream to one day be a recognizable star. It seems Jaren’s chance is finally coming with the upcoming new Netflix series, where he will get his moment to shine.
The young actor was raised in Texas by his parents, father Jason Lewison and mother, Lauren Lewison. He was raised alongside his elder sister Mikayla Lewison and two younger brothers Nathan and Ryan Lewison. Jason also finished his early education in Texas; he finished high school from J.J. Pearce High School, located in Richardson, Texas, where he also played football for four years.
Jaren Lewison grew up in Texas, currently lives in California and studies at USC.
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Jaren Lewison moved to California after graduating high school, his acting career was going well, and he got into USC, which was the reason for the move. Jaren started acting in 2008, and over a decade later, he appears in one of the most highly anticipated Netflix series of the year, and the fact is, the, not even 21-year-old actor is only getting started.
Jaren Lewison Plays Ben Gross in the Netflix Series Never Have I Ever
Never Have I Ever is created by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher, based in part to Mindy’s own experience as a teenager in high school. The new Netflix series is a coming of age story about a Tamil girl, born and raised in the US who is finding it hard to reconcile the two different worlds she lives in, the religious side of her family and relatives and the Western culture of her friends and other high school kids.
Jaren Lewison plays Ben Gross in the Netflix series; he is one of the “friends” of Devi in Never Have I Ever. Well, "friends" is not the exact term for the relationship they share; friendly academic rivalry is what better describes them. Ben is good looking, he is cool and also an academic scholar, but for the past few years, he is battling with Devi to be the best, and those two drive each other.
Jaren Lewison plays Ben Gross in the Netflix series Never Have I Ever.
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While Ben is trying to compete with his academic nemesis, Devi is trying to get laid and not be the nerd virgin of high school. Devi and her friends are trying to experience everything from high school before it is all over, and they move away to college. Devi and Ben’s rivalry is only one dynamic of the story and something that makes Devi’s life a little harder.
Never Have I Ever will be available for streaming from 27 April 2020, worldwide, on Netflix, starring Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as Devi, Poorna Jagannathan as Nalini, Sendhil Ramamurthy as Mohan, Richa Moorjani as Kamala, Ramona Young as Eleanor, Lee Rodriguez as Fabiola, Darren Barnet as Paxton Hall-Yoshida, and Jaren Lewison as Ben Gross.
Jaren Lewison Appeared as Kyle Peterson in the Hallmark Movie Away and Back
Jaren was around eight years old when he got the role of Joshua in the children's education series Barney & Friends. From 2008 to 2009, the actor appeared in three episodes of the series and also played the same character in two other videos of the show. The actor was again asked to appear in a Christmas TV movie based on the series.
He continued to appear in movies and TV shows after the first few years of playing Joshua. Jaren was part of the cast of the Adam Sandler movie Men, Women & Children. The movie was released in 2014, and in 2015, the actor appeared in Hallmark Channel movie Away and Back. He played Kyle Peterson in the family movie, which was met with acclaim by fans.
After 2015, the actor took a hiatus from acting, mainly focusing on his high school education and also playing football for his school’s team. After almost three years, the actor came back in the hit movie Tag, where he played the 18-year-old version of Ed Helms character.
Jaren Lewison was Five Years Old When He Fell in Love with Acting
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When it comes to acting, sometimes, people fall in love with the art form after seeing others play various characters either onscreen or on stage. It was the later one for Jaren Lewison; he was only five years old when a stage troupe came to his school. Jaren loved what they were doing on stage and paid a lot of attention.
His attention was noticed by the kids on stage, and Jaren got a recommendation to get an agent and start acting himself. This is how Jaren Lewison got his start in acting; three years later, he started appearing in movies and TV shows. The actor also took an interest in theatre; he wowed the audience in Nebraska while appearing in the play Shakespeare in Love.
Social Media Presence of Jaren Lewison – Does the Actor Have a Girlfriend?
Jaren Lewison is 20 years old and the actor is currently single.
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Jaren Lewison started his Instagram account in 2012, but there are less than 25 posts on his Instagram page. Most of the photos are of himself and his family, where he is seen with his siblings and parents. The actor also promotes his new movies and TV shows on his Instagram page, which has close to 3,000 followers.
But when it comes to his relationship status, the actor seems to be single at the moment. A thorough review of his Instagram page shows the actor with some pretty ladies during the high school prom and homecoming, but there are no confirmations if any of them is his girlfriend. It seems the actor is focused on his still budding career and college life, which is only getting started.
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