He was on a hit TV show for 10 years.
The man was a kid at the time, but he still put in a terrific performance on the long-running series, week after week.
His teammates were well-known actors.
One of them was a handsome bad boy who also starred in hit movies. He was married to a Bond girl for a time and had several children. The other was a much more stable movie star, known for his zany on-screen persona.
In 2010, at the age of 17, he became television’s highest-paid child star.
Then he left the show after saying the culture on set didn’t suit him.
Before this big TV series, this mysterious man worked with Sharon Stone on a gritty film and with Miley Cyrus on Hannah Montana. He also directed an episode of CSI. Her first film role was with Dinner With Friends in 2001 with Andie MacDowell.
His parents are from Austin, Texas and were both arrested many years ago, but seem to be doing better these days.
Fun fact: He attended the University of Colorado Boulder.
Who is he?
He is former child star Angus T. Jones, 30.
Angus was featured in the hit sitcom Two and a Half Men. He played Jake Harper in the CBS sitcom for 10 seasons from 2003 to 2013.
He was almost unrecognizable as he flaunted his new look during a rare public outing in Los Angeles last week.
He was spotted with a bushy beard while near his home. Jones wore a baseball cap, sunglasses, a T-shirt and gray sweatpants.
In recent years, he led a reclusive life, rarely reappearing in the public eye.
Jones was just nine years old when he landed his role in Two And A Half Men alongside Jon Cryer and Charlie Sheen.
During his 10 years on the show, Angus watched Charlie descend into a drug-fueled public epidemic that ultimately saw him fired in 2011 and replaced by Ashton Kutcher.
Around the same time, Angus himself was struggling with the demands of his role, which included more and more storylines involving drugs and sex.
He admitted in 2012 that he began to find the job “very awkward”, noting that “I’m with these people on set that I’ve been with since I was eight years old.”
On stage at PaleyFest, he expressed his discomfiture at the idea of ”doing the adult thing when I’m still not an adult.” I mean, I’m 18, but I’m not an adult.
Later that year, he was baptized into a Christian ministry called Forerunner Chronicles and announced that he wanted to leave his sitcom.
He urged Two And A Half Men viewers to “stop watching it and filling your head with dirt”, stating that he himself was withdrawing from the project to avoid “contributing to the enemy’s plan” .
Angus headed to the University of Colorado at Boulder and initially majored in environmental studies, later switching to Jewish studies.
In 2015, he agreed to take part in the series finale of Two And A Half Men, and by 2016, his feelings towards religion seemed to have transformed even further.
“Over the past three years, I have been involved in various faith-based organizations. Currently, I am moving away from organizational business model programs,” he told People.
“I want to see where I go without an organization giving me approval if I’m good or bad or whatever.”
He said filming the finale of Two And A Half Men “kind of showed me how much I loved it” and said “the door is definitely still open” for him to play new.
In late 2023, he reunited with Sheen for an appearance on the show MAX Bookies, according to E! News.
Her parents are Kelly and Carey Jones.
They were reportedly well known to law enforcement authorities at their former residence in Travis County, Texas, before moving to Los Angeles.
Photos of the two men were released, taken during their arrest in 1997.
Carey had Kelly arrested for assault after allegedly pulling her out of a car and pushing her to the ground.
She later dropped the charges, but Kelly was ordered to take an anti-violence class.
Carey was arrested that same year for burglary, which was later dismissed “pending further investigation.”