Sam Jones III is "Pete Ross"
Sam Jones III is another actor from this series just beginning his career in acting. Jones grew up in Boston Mass. but moved to Hollywood soon after graduating high school. He's had several notable TV appearances including NYPD Blue and a two episode appearance on CSI. Ironically he also appeared in Judging Amy, the same program which launched Tom Welling's career, his co-star on Smallville.
Jones is now taking his career to the big screen and will be making several notable movies. First he plays a leading role in the upcoming movie ZigZag. This is the story of Louis Fletcher (Jones), a 15-year-old autistic boy named ZigZag, who steals $9,000 from his boss to provide rent for his abusive father (played by Wesley Snipes), who also owes a great deal of money to a loan shark. ZigZag's social worker (John Leguizamo) tries to help him out of his situation, but his plan only makes things worse...
Jones also plays a leading role in an upcoming crime drama co-staring rapper Nelly.
Hobbies:
Basketball
Sci Fi Wire interview with Sam Jones III
Jones: Smallville Like Dawson
Sam Jones III, who plays Pete Ross on The WB's hit Smallville, told SCI FI Wire that the Superman series isn't a traditional superhero saga. "It's got a kind of Dawson's Creek type of feeling," Jones said. "Peter and Chloe [Allison Mack] and Clark [Tom Welling] are friends who hang out, but then there's always something going on, where Clark has to save the day."
Jones insists that he didn't have to think twice about signing on for Smallville, despite the fact that he risked his momentum in films for a supporting role on a TV series filming in Vancouver, B.C., far away from the Hollywood scene. "Smallville was something I wanted to be a part of," he said. "Anything to do with Superman has always gone down in history as far as being something good, like the comics, the original show, the movies and Lois & Clark. Also, I had the opportunity to break barriers. To be an African-American and play Clark's best friend and have the character (in the comic book) originally be white, I felt I'd be doing a good thing.
"It's consistent work and it's fun," Jones added. "And I knew it would be. I'm basically about the material. As long as it's good material I'm going to pursue it. At first, it was a little weird coming into a situation where I wasn't the lead, because I'd been used to working in every scene, all day, every day on the films I'd just done. When we shot the (Smallville) pilot I was here in Vancouver for four weeks and I worked six days. I wasn't used to that at all. But it's okay. I sit in my trailer and hang out with people. I'll watch DVDs. I like it when I'm working and I don't mind getting paid well to watch DVDs when they're not using me."
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