Introduction
Supporting roles often attract a fan base at least as large as the lead character’s – Ned Leeds from “Spider-Man: Homecoming” is one such example. So who is the young actor who played Ned Leeds and won the hearts of millions of fans of comic books and superhero movies?
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Early life and education
Jacob Batalon was born on October 9, 1996 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; through his parents, he is of Filipino descent, but holds American nationality.
He has a half-brother and a half-sister from his mother, and two half-sisters and three half-brothers from his father. He attended the private Catholic St. Anthony School and then the private Roman Catholic preparatory school, Damien Memorial School, in Oahu, Hawaii, USA. After graduating, he enrolled at Kapi’olani Community College, where he studied music theory, but dropped out and moved to New York City, where he studied for two years at the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts. .
Career
Batalon started his acting career in 2016 when he landed the role of Cooper in the horror movie “North Woods”. The following year, he had his breakthrough role as Peter Parker’s best friend, Ned Leeds, in “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” alongside big Hollywood names like Tom Holland, Robert Downey Jr., Michael Keaton, and Gwyneth Paltrow; he reprized that role in 2018’s “Avengers: Infinity War”, and that same year he was also in the cast for movies “Every Day”, “Blood Fest” and “Banana Split”.
In 2019, he played Ned again, this time in “Avengers: Endgame”, “Spider-Man: Far from Home”, as well as in the spin-off shorts, “Peter’s To-Do List” and “Science Fair”. It remained busy for him that year, as he starred in the feature films “The True Don Quixote” and “Let It Snow”. He also had a guest role on a comedy sketch show “Bubble Gang”, where he portrayed the character Need, a parody of Ned Leeds from “Spiderman”.
In 2020, he was briefly seen in the short horror series “50 States of Fright”.
Batalon has also appeared on several television shows, most notably on “Jimmy Kimmel Live”, “WGN Morning News”, “Entertainment Tonight” and “Extra with Billy Bush”.
He was also a guest at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, promoting the upcoming “Spider-Man: Homecoming”. He also did a voiceover in a non-canon video game called “Spider-Man: Far From Home – Virtual Reality Experience”.
Private life
Despite his parents being Filipinos, he has only been to the Philippines once in his life since May 2020.
He understands the Filipino Tagalog language, but he doesn’t speak it very well.
Before becoming an actor, Batalon aspired to become a musician. He loved to sing and wanted to learn to play the ukulele, but he dropped out before he got his music degree. In an interview, he said, ‘I didn’t really like school in general. I dropped out of college in Hawaii just because I thought school was for losers. But school is very important.’
Found by a Los Angeles scouting agency looking for new faces in Hawaii, he encouraged him to apply to the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts so he could learn acting professionally.
He is mainly represented by Jason Cunningham of Paradigm.
In the final year of the two-year program, Batalon had its first-ever audition. He didn’t have many details; all he knew was that the audition was for a supporting character for a Marvel movie, and that the actor’s only requirement was to be able to portray a teenager. Batalon sent the audition tape, but got no hope. However, just a few weeks later, he received a call from representatives from Marvel and Sony.
Batalon is good friends with his “Spiderman: Homecoming” colleague, Tom Holland. The two often refer to each other as “brothers” and even lived together for a short time after the filming ended, before Batalon found a new residence. Holland also helped Batalon with advice on his acting career.
Jacob is active on many social media, such as Instagram, where he has more than 1.2 million followers, plus Twitter and Facebook.
Since May 2020, Batalon has been living in Connecticut, USA, with his cousin Christopher ‘Papa Chris’.
Net value
Batalon’s exact salary is yet to be announced and his acting career is not long overdue. However, as this young actor has already been in several successful Hollywood blockbusters, his net worth is already estimated at about $1 million!
Physical Characteristics
Batalon is a big boy, he is 1.65 m tall and weighs about 100 kg. He has black hair, although he is usually seen in public without hair, with an olive complexion and dark eyes.
