Sawyer Barth

A pair of challenging character turns in the indie dramas "Super Dark Times" (2017) and "And Then I Go" (2017) helped to vault actor Sawyer Barth from juvenile roles to more mature parts in network programming like "The Kids are Alright" (ABC, 2018- ). Born in West Long Branch, New Jersey, Barth's screen career began at the age of 11 with recurring roles on series like "Black Box" (ABC, 2014), for which he played the youthful version of David Chisum's character, and TNT's period crime drama "Public Morals" (2015) as the son of series lead Ed Burns. Between these efforts, he also made a brief appearance in Steven Spielberg's "Bridge of Spies" (2015) and numerous short films, but his true breakout projects came in 2017 with a pair of prominent roles in challenging independent features. In "Super Dark Times" (2017), he played the sidekick of a school bully who suffers an unpleasant fate at the hands of a troubled small-town boy, while in "And Then I Go" (2017), he was the angry partner-in-crime to a emotionally unstable high schooler who takes violent revenge on his perceived oppressors. After appearing opposite his "Then I Go" co-star Justin Long in the Amazon comedy series "The Real Stephen Blatt" (2017), Barth landed his first role as a series regular on "The Kids are Alright,"  playing a by-the-books member of a large Irish-Catholic family.