Teo Halm

Teo Lucas Halm (born May 18, 1999) is an American actor, songwriter and record producer. He co-wrote Latin Grammy-winning song "Con altura" by Rosalía (featuring J Balvin)[2] and two songs from the Grammy-nominated album The Lion King: The Gift: "Mood 4 Eva" performed by Beyoncé, Jay-Z and Childish Gambino, and "Scar", performed by 070 Shake and Jessie Reyez. Halm starred in the 2014 movie Earth to Echo and has roles in the independent feature films Memoria and Spiral Farm.

Teo Halm
Born (1999-05-18) May 18, 1999[1]
Los Angeles, California
Occupation
  • Actor
  • songwriter
  • record producer
Years active2009–present
Websitewww.teohalm.com

Life and career

Teo Halm was born in Los Angeles, California. His mother's family is from France and Morocco and his father is Australian, with British/Czech forebears.[3][4]

Halm grew up performing in theater, doing The Sound of Music and The Music Man.[3] His father posted a picture of Halm on the talent website newfaces.com, attracting the attention of a producer for the PBS series Nova.[5] In 2009 he was cast as a Neanderthal boy.[6] In 2010 he was hired to play "Will Campbell" a fictitious UCLA spokesperson in a fund-raising e-solicitation to UCLA alumni.[7]

In 2012 Halm played the lead in a short coming of age film, Waltham Vanguard, written and directed by Bill Barker, Halm played opposite Jaime P. Gomez of Nash Bridges fame.[8] In 2013 he was cast in the Disney Channel Boy Meets World follow-up series Girl Meets World as Elliot, the son of Cory (Ben Savage) and Topanga (Danielle Fishel).[9] He shot the pilot, but his character was dropped from the series.[10] In 2014 he starred as vulnerable foster child Alex in the sci-fi fantasy film Earth to Echo receiving the Best Actor award at the 9th Annual PICK Awards for his performance.[11] He will play Frank Sullivan, Charles Bukowski's childhood best friend, in the upcoming James Franco-directed movie Bukowski.[12] He was also cast in a supporting lead role as Alex, in the movie Memoria which premiered at the Austin Film Festival October 29, 2015.[13][14] with a 2016 release in North America with distribution by Monterey Media.[15] In 2018 Halm played the role of Theo in the independent feature film Spiral Farm which premiered at Slamdance Film Festival, January 26, 2019 in Park City, Utah. It is nominated for Best Narrative Feature.[16]

In 2017, Halm sought an internship with record producer Michael Uzowuru. Instead, Uzowuru facilitated him getting an internship with producer Mark Ronson, while maintaining a friend/mentor role in Halm's life.[17] Halm has had an impressive 2019, co-writing the Latin Grammy-winning song "Con altura" by Rosalia (featuring J Balvin) and co-writing and co-producing "Mood 4 Eva" by Beyoncé, Jay-Z and Childish Gambino, from the Grammy-nominated album The Lion King: The Gift.[18]

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
2009 Nova Neanderthal boy TV series, episode: "Becoming Human: Last Human Standing"
2012 Waltham Vanguard Bud CINE Golden Eagle winner
2014 15 Young Brother
2014 Earth to Echo Alex PICK Awards winner - Best Actor
2015 Lift The Introvert
2015 Memoria Alex (13 yrs)
2017 Camp Howard TV Movie
2019 Spiral Farm Theo Slamdance Premiere January 26, 2019[19]
TBA Bukowski Frank Sullivan Completed

Awards and nominations

His performance as Alex in Earth To Echo received the Best Actor award at the 9th Annual PICK Awards.[11]

Latin Grammy Award, Best Urban Song 2019 - writer for Con altura[20]

Discography

2016

2018

Writing & Production discography
Year Artist Album Song
2016 Raury "Neveralone"[25]
2017 ¿Teo? Single "Uno Dos"[26]
2018 Amandla Stenberg The Hate U Give "Always"[27]
Omar Apollo Single "Today"[28]
Quadry Malik Ruff "Momma"[29]
Choker Honeybloom "Juno"[30]
2019 Goldlink Diaspora "Days Like This"[31]
Kelsey Lu Blood "I'm Not in Love"[32]
Rosalía & J Balvin "Con altura"[33]
070 Shake & Jessie Reyez The Lion King: The Gift "Scar"[34]
Beyoncé, Jay-Z & Childish Gambino "Mood 4 Eva" [35]
King Princess featuring Tobias Jesso Jr. Cheap Queen "Isabel's Moment"
Choker Forever & A Few "Lucky"[36]
Omar Apollo Trouble "Trouble"[37]
2020 Rosalía & Travis Scott "TKN"[38]
IDK featuring Juicy J IDK & FRIENDS 2 (Basketball County Soundtrack) "Square Up" [39]
Anne-Marie featuring Doja Cat "To Be Young" [40]

Assistant production
Kevin Abstract – American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story

References
  1. "About Teo". Facebook.com. Retrieved 2014-09-20.
  2. "Rosalia, J Balvin Win Latin GRAMMY". GRAMMY.com. 2019-11-14. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  3. Rivera, Jhanelle (2014-07-01). "There's More To Gaze At This 'Earth To Echo' Star - Teo Halm". Bello Magazine. Retrieved 2014-09-11.
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-10-29. Retrieved 2017-01-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "About Teo Halm". TeoHalm.com. Retrieved 2014-09-11.
  6. Becoming Human: Last Human Standing (2009) on IMDb.
  7. Bernsen, Joel (2010-01-22). "UCLA Fund 2010 eSolicitation - "Will"". Vimeo. Retrieved 2014-09-11.
  8. Waltham Vanguard (2012) on IMDb.
  9. Swift, Andy (2014-03-04). "Girl Meets World Scoop: Teo Halm Cast As Cory & Topanga's Son Elliott". Hollywood Life. Retrieved 2014-09-10.
  10. "'Girl Meets World' Axes Older Brother Character, Teo Halm Tweets". The Huffington Post. 2014-06-10. Retrieved 2014-09-20.
  11. "Fanlala Voters PICK The Fault in Our Stars". Retrieved February 18, 2015.
  12. Pace, Robert (2014-03-05). "Girl Meets World Casts Teo Halm As Elliot Matthews". Entertainment Tonight. Retrieved 2014-08-17.
  13. Memoria (2014) on IMDb
  14. "Austin Film Festival Announces First Wave of Films". The Hollywood Reporter. 2015-08-19. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  15. "James Franco's 'Memoria' Bought by Monterey Media for North America". Variety. 2015-11-01. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
  16. Teo Halm on IMDb 
  17. "michael uzowuru is the mysterious frank ocean producer who doesn't do press". i-D. 2017-08-18. Retrieved 2019-01-28.
  18. "Beyoncé: Songs". Beyoncé. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
  19. Slamdance, Courtesy of. "Alec Tibaldi’s coming of age film ‘Spiral Farm’ examines family dysfunction with a unique spin". www.parkrecord.com. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  20. "Rosalia, J Balvin Win Latin GRAMMY". GRAMMY.com. 2019-11-14. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  21. "scumbag demo". Retrieved March 15, 2017.
  22. "GIRL". Retrieved March 15, 2017.
  23. "Today". Retrieved 2018-09-18.
  24. Momma Ft. Teo Halm (Prod. Teo Halm), retrieved 2019-01-27
  25. Raury – NEVERALONE, retrieved 2019-01-27
  26. ¿Teo? (Ft. Jaden Smith) – Uno Dos, retrieved 2019-01-27
  27. Always, retrieved 2019-06-05
  28. Omar Apollo (Ft. Teo Halm) – Today, retrieved 2019-01-27
  29. QUADRY (Ft. Teo Halm) – Momma, retrieved 2019-01-27
  30. Choker – Juno, retrieved 2019-01-27
  31. Days Like This, retrieved 2019-06-12
  32. I'm Not in Love, retrieved 2019-06-05
  33. Con Altura, retrieved 2019-06-05
  34. 070 Shake & Jessie Reyez - SCAR Lyrics, retrieved 2019-07-21
  35. Mood 4 Eva, retrieved 2019-07-28
  36. www.umusicpub.com https://www.umusicpub.com/au/Digital-Music-Library/song/398527/choker-lucky. Retrieved 2019-11-24. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  37. Omar Apollo – Trouble, retrieved 2020-05-29
  38. TKN, retrieved 2020-05-29
  39. IDK – Square Up, retrieved 2020-06-27
  40. DOJA CAT HOPS ON ANNE-MARIE’S ANTHEM OF “TO BE YOUNG”, retrieved 2020-07-19
  41. "American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story Credits". Retrieved March 15, 2017.
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