Travis Tope

Travis Tope is an American film and television actor, known for playing Chris Truby in the film Men, Women & Children, Nick Strain in The Town That Dreaded Sundown, and Joe Harper in the series Boardwalk Empire. Early life Tope is a Texas native, born in 1991. He was living in Plano before he started auditioning for acting. In January 2010 as a member of Plano's Boy Scout Troop 1000, Tope was awarded the rank of Eagle Scout. Career In 2014, Tope starred as JT Doyle in the drama Little Accidents opposite Elizabeth Banks and Boyd Holbrook, with Sara Colangelo directing. It premiered at Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2014, and was released on January 16, 2015, by Amplify. Then Tope played the role Chris Truby in the drama Men, Women & Children along with Adam Sandler and Rosemarie DeWitt, and directed by Jason Reitman. The film had premiered on September 6, 2014 at TIFF and was released domestically on October 1, 2014 by Paramount Pictures. Then he played the lead role of Nick Strain in the slasher horror film The Town That Dreaded Sundown along with Addison Timlin, which was directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon. The film was released by Orion Pictures on October 16, 2014. He then played two roles Joe Harper and Slim in the final fifth season of the HBO series Boardwalk Empire. Before starring in the Men, Women & Children, Tope was offered for the three roles in three different films, including The Gambler with Mark Wahlberg, Men, Women & Children, and young adult thriller November Criminals alongside Chloë Grace Moretz. He passed on both The Gambler and November Criminals and started shooting Men, Women & Children the next month. Tope was also offered for a role in Ryan Gosling's directorial debut,How to Catch a Monster, which he passed on. The role was played by Iain De Caestecker. He was also offered to give a screen test for a role in the Night at the Museum 3, but he passed on that too. In the October 2014, at the Live Reading of the script of the 1999's film American Beauty, Tope read the role of Ricky Fitts, originally played by Wes Bentley. In 2015, Tope starred in the premiere episode "The Battle Creek Way" of the CBS' comedy series Battle Creek as Ricky. Later he appeared as Wyatt Maslow in the episode "Blaze of Glory" in the sixth season of another CBS' series, NCIS: Los Angeles. Tope has played the role of male lead as Evan Klein in the Blumhouse's science-fiction horror film Viral opposite Analeigh Tipton and Sofia Black D'Elia, which Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman directed. The film is scheduled to be released on February 19, 2016 by Dimension Films. Tope plays Charlie in the upcoming science-fiction disaster film Independence Day: Resurgence along with Liam Hemsworth and Jessie Usher, directed by Roland Emmerich. The film is scheduled to be released on June 24, 2016 by 20th Century Fox.