Famous People from Midland County Texas
Jackson Rathbone

Born December 14, 1984 in Singapore. Rathbone attended Trinity
School of Midland Texas, a college preparatory school, and started
out in local theater in Midland with the youth actors program "The
Pickwick Players", initially doing musical theatre. For his
junior and senior years of high school, Rathbone attended the
Interlochen Arts Academy, a private school for the arts in Michigan,
where he majored in acting. After graduation, he moved to Los
Angeles. After being in Los Angeles for a short time, Rathbone was
cast in Disney 411, where he interviewed up-and-coming personalities
like Hilary Duff and the sister duo Aly & AJ.
Rathbone enjoys music, writing, singing and producing. He formerly
performed in a band called 100 Monkeys with two friends whom he met
in high school at Interlochen Arts Academy, Ben Graupner and Ben
Johnson, as well as close friends Jerad Anderson and M. Lawrence
Abrams ("Uncle Larry"). The band released three albums in 2009. In
December 2009, 100 Monkeys began a 100-city tour that took them to
nearly every state in the US by mid-2010.The band continued to tour
into 2011 to coincide with the release of their new album, Liquid
Zoo, which was released in June.[22] The band headed overseas for
their first international dates in winter 2011.
Rathbone lives in Los Angeles. His latest film is Pali Road
where he plays Neil Lang. His latest musical single is
Indian Drum.
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