Nicholas D’Agosto

Nicholas D’Agosto was born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA, on April 17, 1980. He is the third of five children. He discovered that acting was his thing in school, as he liked debate clubs and improv classes. Perhaps that is why he fit so well in his first role for the cinema in Election (1999), a good American independent film delivered by Alexander Payne , and which took place during the student elections of a high school. It also turns out that Payne studied at the same institute as D’Agosto.

Nicholas received his BA in history and theater from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At that time he took part in a good number of plays performed on stage, one of them “Chomsky 9/11”, by the avant-garde group Theater X, which spoke of the repercussions of the 9/11 attacks. Also, eager to know the real world, and the needs of his likeness, he spent a semester in the Dominican Republic, where he learned what poverty and inequalities were.

Like so many actors his age, D’Agosto has had occasional appearances on television series like Six Feet Under , ER , Cold Case , House , and Supernatural . But his big break came with the leading role in Rocket Science (2007), an independent film presented at Sundance where he was accompanied by Anne Kendrick, and which took place in the familiar world, for him, of high school debates. This would allow him to take on a recurring role on the series Heroes shortly after and appear on Office .

After appearing in silly comedies like Cheerleaders War (2009) –where hormones soar in a cheerleader camp–, Mardi Gras (2010) –more of the same–, and From Prada to Nada (2011) –inspired, for that matter that is, in Jane Austen –, he has tried his luck having visions in the terrifying Final Destination 5 (2011), where he is the protagonist who saves his companions, causing death to seek them out one by one.