Caleb Landry Jones

Biography

Caleb Landry Jones is an American actor, musician and singer. He is known for works such as Nitram(2021), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), Get Out (2017), X-Men: First Class(2011) and others.

His recent works include playing Douglas in Dogman(2023), Jeff in Finch(2021) and Dally Margolis in The Forgiven(2021)

Childhood- Family

Caleb Landry Jones was born on 7th December 1989 in Garland (Garland hospital), Texas, United States to Patrick Warren Jones(father) & Cindy Ann Jones(mother). He was raised in Richardson, Dallas, Texas on a 10 acre farm with barns, chicken and dogs. He finished his High School in Richardson. He has a younger brother in Joshua David.

Education

• Richardson High School: He graduated from Richardson High School, the same High School celebrities like Jeff Dunham & Bill Engvall graduated from.

Career

Music

Caleb the all round musician: Caleb not only plays drums, but also has good command over Guitar, Harmonica and Piano as well. His grandparents had passion for music, his grandfather Tommy was a great drummer, his mother is piano teacher

Robert Jones

Caleb met fellow musician Robert Hudson in Richardson & together started a experimental rock band named "Robert Jones" in 2009, made combining Robert Hudson's first name and Caleb Jone's last name. Caleb played drums and gave vocals, while Hudson played guitar and A.J. Durham played bass. The band played a mix of indie rock, psychedelic, stoner.

Men and Their Horses: It was the first album of the band "Robert Jones" released in 2009, it is available for digital download. Some of the songs of the album are:

1. 1. Pockets and Holes
   2. Men and Their Horses
   3. Doin' Like a Candidate
   4. You Too Shall Fall
   5. Smaller at the Nose
   6. Clinic
   7. Share A Leg
   8. Paperhead
   9. But She Don't Really Mind
   10. Click to Exit
   11. Big White
   12. Everything is Fine
   13. They Come

The Mother Stone

Caleb's debut album "The Mother Stone" was released on 1st May 2020 through Sacred Bones Records. The songs were recorded in Los Angeles and they used everything in his girlfriend Katya Zvereva's warehouse  for props. It was produced by Nic Jodain with Robert Hudson playing bass.

The Mother Stone album songs list:

1. Flag Day/ The Mother Stone
2. You're So Wonderfull
3. I Dig Your Dog
4. Katya
5. All I Am in You / The Big Worm
6. No Where's Where Nothing's Died
7. Licking the Days
8. For the Longest Time
9. The Hodge-Podge Porridge Poke
10. I Want to Love You
11. The Great I Am
12. Lullabbey
13. No Where's Where Nothing's Died (A Marvelous Pain)
14. Thanks for Staying
15. Little Planet Pig

Acting

Caleb started acting since the age of 13, his love for music began early as well. He started acting because he wanted to be loved and respected.

Move to Los Angeles: After the initial success in acting, Caleb moved to Los Angeles to seek a steady career in acting. He slept on the couch of his friend's on his first week in L.A before moving to his own place.

Small Jobs: Soon after moving to Los Angeles he realized he needed money to survive before achieving even a mediocre success, enough to pay the bills, he worked at the restaurants, clothing sores, supermarkets and general stores for some time.

Antiviral(2012): The Canadian French sci-fi film directed by Brandon Cronenberg gave Caleb the big breakthrough, he appeared as the protagonist in the horror movie.

Getout(2017) was another Breakthrough in Caleb's career. He played a very memorable but creepy character in the movie.

Filmography

Movies

TV Series

Discography

Albums

Singles

Facts and Trivia

• Reading: as a child he liked reading books from the library, especially comics like "The Hardy Boys", "Chronicles of Narnia"
• Caleb and Nicholas Hoult, his co-star in the movie X-Men: First Class (2011) were born on the same day: December 7, 1989 [2]
• His favorite quote on success is by Tom Wolfe-> "You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, and publicity"
• He likes classical rock and roll.
• He likes wearing Jeans pants.
• Caleb doesn't seem to be active on Social media, there are popular fan accounts on Twitter & Facebook. Lot of info is available on the Tumblr Fan site too.
• Hollywood's Go to Oddball: Vulture Magazine called Caleb , the Oddball of Hollywood

Quotes

• [When asked about his freckles] They are natural tattoos
• [About life in Richardson] It's the typical American town where nothing ever happens
• I'm a perfectionist and that takes me to do things over hundreds of times without being ever fully satisfied with what I have made.
• I'm ready to be an action figure. All the redheaded kids will feel loved and be able to buy a redheaded action figure.
• [About his love for jeans pants] I'm a Texas boy, and we have denim in our blood.
• If you’re a good fighter on the street, you don’t have to tell anybody that you’re good at fighting. Let someone else talk about how great you are
• You don't want to meet anybody in Cannes. It's the worst place
• I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into. [2]

Awards

A few of the movies he has acted in have been nominated in the best picture category at the Academy Awards:

• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
• Get Out (2017)
• The Social Network (2010)
• No Country for Old Men (2007)

Sources

1. Caleb Landry Jones on wikipedia
2. Caleb Landry bio on imdb
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