Casey Bond(I)

Growing up in Georgia, Casey Bond has always had a love and strong interest in acting, although he did not begin to pursue it until his college days at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he took a few acting classes. After college, Bond went on to play professional baseball for the San Francisco Giants organization. However, acting has always been a passion for Casey. Bond moved to Los Angeles in hopes of becoming a successful actor. No one was more surprised than he when, so soon after pursuing an acting career, he landed a main cast role in the star studded and multiple Academy Award nominated film Moneyball (2011), starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Playing former Oakland A's pitcher Chad Bradford, Bond fell into his role naturally due to his background in baseball. Bond's skill shown not only through his acting, but his ability to imitate Bradford's unique pitching style, which was a submarine/sidearm motion that had his knuckles nearly scraping the ground. Along with taking regular acting classes with the legendary Larry Moss at his studio, Bond has been a spokesperson for numerous companies, doing print ads for A.D.I.D.A.S, Muscletech, and commercials for One A Day Men's Vitamins and Nike, among others. His career continues to rise as he has done a number of films and TV along with becoming a seasoned producer and Co-CEO in his company Higher Purpose Entertainment with Brad Wilson.