Born on October 6, 1974 in Grass Valley, CA into an artistic family, actor Jeremy Sisto began his in earnest career at six-years-old, performing regularly in school plays and community theater. His mother, actress Reedy Gibbs, and his father, Dick Sisto, was a jazz vibraphonist, raising their two children—including Sisto’s sister Meadow—in a stone house on a 20-acre farm in Northern California. But when his parents divorced, Sisto moved with his mother to the north end of Chicago where she remarried and Sisto continued to act. Sisto was, however, an unhappy child, a state of mind that was
By age eight, started auditioning for various Chicago theaters; hired by Goodman Theater to appear in Tennessee Williams' "House Not Meant to Stand" and opposite Brian Dennehy in "Galileo"
Acted with Chicago's Absolute Theater Company and at the Cherry Street Theater
1991
Made film debut as Kevin Kline's son in Lawrence Kasdan's "Grand Canyon"
1992
TV debut, opposite Reese Witherspoon, in "Desperate Choices: To Save My Child" (NBC)
1993
Moved to Los Angeles and landed the role of Andrew, an epileptic and retarded teenager, in "The Care and Custody of Barbara Moon" at Theatre Geo