Eddie Troy
- Actor
Edward Alexander Troy was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Edward H. Troy and Alexandra Troy. He is of Dutch, Irish, and Scottish Decent. Troy was brought up in Somerville, Massachusetts. Eddie starred in his first play at the age of four. He was educated at St. Peter's in Cambridge, Massachusetts, then at Andover High School, and subsequently at Southern New Hampshire University. In his senior year at Southern New Hampshire, Troy quit the lacrosse team to fall back into acting after a two year hiatus. After a year of theater with the Middlesex Theater Company out of Lowell, Massachusetts, he began his career in film. In his debut performance in City of Homes (2015), Troy was nominated for Best Actor in the Blackbird Film Festival, as well as The Monthly Film Festival (TMFF). Shortly after, he made his first television appearance in the HBO pilot The Devil You Know (2015), written by Jenji Kohan, and Directed by Gus Van Sant. Following the pilot he began studying at Boston University for two years under Jan Egleson, a former student of Stella Adler. Eddie made his feature film debut in Detroit (2017) . He currently lives in Los Angeles, California where he continues to pursue his career in acting.