Max Records

Max Records
Records at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con International
Born	Maxwell Records June 18, 1997 (1997-06-18) (age 14)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2006–present

Maxwell Records^[1] (born June 18, 1997) is an American child actor. Records is most notable for the role of Max in the 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are. His earlier experiences in film include a minor role in Directions: The Plans Video Album, and an appearance in the music video for Cake's cover of "The Guitar Man".^[2] He played the small role of young Stephen (played as an adult by Mark Ruffalo) in the 2008 film The Brothers Bloom.^[3]

His parents are Jenny Fleenor, a librarian, and Shawn Records, a photographer, Master of Fine Arts and teacher at several colleges in the Portland, Oregon area.^[4][5][6] In August 2003 he and his family moved from Syracuse, where Records was a student at Ed Smith School, to Portland.^[6] Records also has a younger brother, Sam, and the family currently lives in North Portland, where he attends middle school at a public school.^[4][5]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Directions: The Plans Video Album	Brother	Segment "Stable Song"
2008	The Brothers Bloom	Young Stephen
2009	Where the Wild Things Are	Max	Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actor Nominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Performer Nominated – Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Young Performer Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor
2010	Blinky™	Alex Neville	Short film[7]
2011	The Sitter	Slater

References

1. ^ Ramey, Jim (October 23, 2009). "Not afraid to scare". SocialistWorker.org. http://socialistworker.org/2009/10/23/not-afraid-to-scare. Retrieved June 5, 2010. 
2. ^ Cake – Guitar Man on YouTube
3. ^ "Something to Toy With". Presenters: Matt Gamble, Andrew James and Kurt Halfyard; Guest: Rian Johnson. Cinecast. Row Three. 2009-10-20. No. 141. 5:31 minutes in. Retrieved on October 27, 2009. "So Max [Records] came [to Brother's Bloom] ... a little bit after finishing Where the Wild Things Are."
4. ^ ^{a b} Wloszczyna, Susan (March 23, 2009). "First look: 'Where the Wild Things Are' gets Maxed out". USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2009-03-22-wild-things-main_N.htm. Retrieved October 19, 2009. 
5. ^ ^{a b} Levy, Shawn (October 31, 2009). "Portland family took a big leap to let son star in 'Where the Wild Things Are'". The Oregonian. http://www.oregonlive.com/O/index.ssf/2009/10/portland_family_took_a_big_lea.html. Retrieved November 1, 2009. 
6. ^ ^{a b} "Max Records, star of "Where the Wild Things Are," has Syracuse connection". http://blog.syracuse.com/entertainment/2009/10/max_records_star_of_where_the.html. Retrieved January 31, 2010. 
7. ^ http://vimeo.com/21216091

External links

• Max Records at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Records, Max
Alternative names
Short description	Actor
Date of birth	June 18, 1997
Place of birth	Portland, Oregon, US
Date of death
Place of death