Angus T. Jones may have had a short tenure in Hollywood – but he left quite an impact.
Jones, who was born in October 1993 in Austin, Texas, landed his first film role in 1999’s Simpatico, when he was only 5 years old. After having several supporting roles in multiple films, Jones landed his breakout role in 2003 as 10-year-old Jake Harper in the sitcom Two and a Half Men alongside Jon Cryer and Charlie Sheen.
After joining the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 2012, Jones decided he wanted to take a step back from the CBS series and eventually quit the show in 2013. (Amber Tamblyn subsequently joined the series in season 11 as Jenny Harper, Sheen’s long lost illegitimate daughter. Sheen had exited in 2011.) Jones made one last cameo in the final episode of season 12.
Jones later opened up about his decision to leave the show and instead go to college at the University of Colorado Boulder.
“It was making light of topics in our world that are really problems for a lot of people,” Angus said in an interview with Houston CBS affiliate KHOU in March 2014. “I was a paid hypocrite because I wasn’t OK with it, but I was still doing it.”
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Angus was born on October 8, 1993, to parents Carey Lynn Claypool and Kelly Charles Jones in Austin, Texas.
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Angus landed the role of Jake Harper when he was 10 years old in 2003.
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Cryer, Jones and Sheen accepted the People’s Choice Award for Favorite TV Comedy for Two and a Half Men.
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Angus and his younger brother, Otto, attended Variety’s 3rd Annual “Power of Youth” event in Los Angeles. In 2010, Angus became the highest paid child star on TV at the age of 17.
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Angus was baptized into the Seventh-Day Advent Church and appeared in a religious video testimonial encouraging viewers not to watch Two and a Half Men.
“If you watch Two and a Half Men, please stop watching Two and a Half Men,” he said in the clip posted to YouTube at the time. “I’m on Two and a Half Men, and I don’t want to be on it. Please stop watching it, and filling your head with filth.”
One day after the video was posted, Angus apologized for his rant and said he didn’t mean for it to come across as disrespectful.
“I have been the subject of much discussion, speculation and commentary over the past 24 hours. While I cannot address everything that has been said or right every misstatement or misunderstanding, there is one thing I want to make clear,” he shared in a statement with Us Weekly at the time. “Without qualification, I am grateful to and have the highest regard and respect for all of the wonderful people on Two and a Half Men with whom I have worked with and over the past ten years who have become an extension of my family.”
He went on to say that he regrets if his statement was misunderstood.
“I apologize if my remarks reflect me showing indifference to and disrespect of my colleagues and a lack of appreciation of the extraordinary opportunity of which I have been blessed,” Angus told Us. “I never intended that.”
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Angus shared that he had joined the management team of Tonite, an event company cofounded by Sean “Diddy” Combs’ son Justin, and doesn’t know if he plans to return to acting.
“I got pretty doomsday with my thinking for a long time, but now I’m having fun and enjoying where I’m at,” Angus told People at the time. “I no longer feel like every step I take is on a land mine.”
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Angus appeared as a guest star on Sheen’s Max show, Bookie, alongside several of his Two and a Half Men costars including creator Chuck Lorre.
“[Angus] is doing great,” Lorre said in an interview with Variety at the time. “He’s a terrific guy. It’s an extraordinary thing. We started working together, he was eight years old. … And to work together again, 20 years later, we had fun. It was a wonderful afternoon. Everybody had the same reaction: ‘Oh my god. You’re a grown man!’”
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Angus was seen in a rare outing in Los Angeles on February 24. The former actor was seen wearing a black hoodie, black shorts, a gray beanie and sunglasses.
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