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Young Entertainer Award winner Sawyer Amadeus is an international award-winning actor across Europe, Asia, North and South America at festivals alongside industry giants George Clooney, Liam Neeson, William Shatner, Jeff Bridges, Katie Holmes, Gérard Depardieu, Millie Bobby Brown, and Timothée Chalamet. Sawyer was born in Elgin, Illinois, to Craig and Sarah Holmberg, on September 13th, 1997. His great+ grandfather was King Edward III of England, and he's cousins with Anderson Cooper and Eddie Redmayne. Sawyer has won an astonishing 21 awards internationally for his portrayal of an AI who becomes sentient, in ALT + <3 (2018), 14 for his role in the time travel comedy Love Takes Time (2018), and 15 for Say It with Your Vest (2019). He's also won awards internationally for his work in the series Just The Tip (2019) as the whimsical Smokey and received a nomination for his obsessed, bedsheet snorting, exceedingly eccentric character in Roses and Restraining Orders (2017). Sawyer also won a Young Entertainer Award, considered to be the child actor equivalent of the Oscars, for Say It with Your Vest (2019) and has had five additional YEA nominations Be Happy (2017), ALT + <3 (2018), A Family Christmas (2018), Just The Tip (2019), and If the Shoe Fits, Buy It! (2019) respectively. When he was eight-years-old, his first musical was a youth theater production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1999). Later when Sawyer was 16, his first professional, theater performance came when he was cast in an Equity production of the same show with Ozark Actors Theatre playing the role of Zebulun. He was also cast in the 2014 Metropolis Performing Arts Centre's A Christmas Carol (1999) where he played the role of Chalmers and was a resident performer at Burbank Family Theater (2016-2019). He began singing professionally in 2007 when he sang in the Christmas spectacular, Holiday Showcase at the Sears Centre Arena. In 2008, he sang in Holst's The Planets which was narrated by Leonard Nimoy and performed again in the Sears Centre's Holiday Showcase but this time with Tony award winner Jodi Benson. Since then, Sawyer's sung the National Anthem for the opening of the Chicago White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field, the Chicago Rush at the Allstate Arena, and the Chicago Express at the Sears Centre Arena. He was also selected to perform in the international Aloha Children's Choir Festival at Waikiki Shell in Honolulu with Henry Leck. Sawyer's performed in concert with the Grammy® award winning group Ladysmith Black Mambazo and the Dove award nominees BarlowGirl. He also sang in The Queen's Coronation Festival Gala (2013) at Buckingham Palace and for the opening of the Commonwealth Games: Glasgow 2014 Opening Ceremony (2014) on BBC. Most recently, Sawyer has sung in At the Movies at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Carmina Burana at the Crystal Cathedral, and in Grammy® award-winning composer Eric Whitacre's Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe (2018).
