Here’s a quick guide to the movie and TV roles of 13 Reasons Why star Dylan Minnette. Indiana native Dylan Minnette has been acting since he was a child and made his TV debut playing a younger version of Charlie Sheen’s character Charlie Harper on the CBS sitcom Two And A Half Men. He also played a younger Michael Schofield during the first two seasons of Prison Break and had one-off roles on shows like Drake & Josh and Grey’s Anatomy.
He made his film debut in the festive TV movie remake The Year Without A Santa Claus and later had roles in the direct-to-video films Snow Buddies and The Clique. After a series of one-off roles on shows including Ghost Whisperer, The Mentalist, and Supernatural, Minnette landed a main part playing Clay Norman – the nephew of Holly Hunter’s title character – in crime drama Saving Grace which aired for three seasons between 2007 and 2010. In 2010, he also had a four-episode stint as Dr. Jack Shephard’s son David in the flash-sideways timeline featured in the final season of Lost.
During the early 2010s, Dylan Minnette had plenty of guest parts in shows like Medium, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Major Crimes alongside nabbing meatier roles like a four-episode turn as Reed on TNT comedy-drama Men Of A Certain Age and Rex Britten on short-lived police procedural fantasy drama Awake. He later played Donnie Gill in two episodes of Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. and appeared in a few episodes of Scandal as Jerry Grant Jr, the eldest son of Fitz and Mellie Grant who met a sticky end in the show’s season 3 finale.
While his movie work hasn’t been quite as prolific as his TV career, Minnette still has a few film roles under his belt. He played a bully named Kenny in the 2010 horror film Let Me In – a remake of the acclaimed 2008 Swedish film of the same name – and starred alongside Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin in Labor Day. He had a small role as Hugh Jackman’s character’s son in the 2013 thriller Prisoners and was in the Disney family comedy Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day with Steve Carrell and Jennifer Garner. He has dipped his toes into the horror genre a few more times since Let Me In, starring alongside Jack Black in Goosebumps, Fede Álvarez’s critically acclaimed fright-fest Don’t Breathe and in Netflix original The Open House.
Of course, Dylan Minnette is best known for his role as Clay Jensen in Netflix teen drama 13 Reasons Why. He’s starred in all three seasons and received praise for his performance as the friend of deceased teen Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford). Fans of 13 Reasons Why can see him reprise his role when the show airs its fourth and final season.