is an American actor born on November 11, 1996 in Elkhart, Texas. His parents are Bryan and Stephanie Sheridan and he has a younger sister named Madison.
Tye attended the Elkhart Independent School System from kindergarten, where he excelled academically as well as athletically.
He began his film career playing Steve, in the Terrence Malick film “The Tree of Life”, starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, after a casting. which lasted almost a year, where more than 10,000 children from Texas and Oklahoma were interviewed. Sheridan he was one of 12 finalists invited to Austin for final auditions for the role of eldest son Jack, who is played, in adulthood, by Sean Penn. Although the role was won by Hunter McCracken, Sheridan was cast in the role of the younger brother, Steve. During the filming of the film, he lived with his mother and sister for four months in Smithville.
In “Mud” (2012), Sheridan plays Ellis, a 14-year-old teenager, along with actor Jacob Lofland, who plays his best friend, Neckbone. In the movie, the two teenagers meet Mud (Matthew McConaughey), a fugitive with whom they agree to a pact to help him escape from an island in the Mississippi and reunite with the woman he loves (Reese Witherspoon). The film was directed by Jeff Nichols, and was screened at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
Then, Sheridan It was Gary Jones in the movie “Joe”, starring Nicolas Cage, who plays an ex-convict who meets a 15-year-old boy, the eldest son of a homeless family, headed by an alcoholic father, who must decide between redemption or ruin. For his role Tye He received the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Most Promising Young Actor, at the upcoming 70th Venice International Film Festival.
In June 2013 he joined the cast of the new film written and directed by Kyle Wilamowski, “Grass Stains”, along with Kaitlyn Dever, where he plays a teenager who discovers his first love. When a joke goes wrong and causes the death of his girlfriend’s older brother, the young man must balance his secret guilt with his feelings for the girl.
At the moment Tye is filming “Dark Places”, along with Charlize Theron, Chloë Moretz and Nicholas Hoult. He will also play Will Cutter in the film “The Forger,” starring John Travolta. Both films will be released in 2014.