Sawyer Amadeus is a renowned international award-winning actor, born on September 13th, 1997, in Elgin, Illinois, to Craig and Sarah Holmberg. His great-grandfather was King Edward III of England, making him cousins with Anderson Cooper and Eddie Redmayne.
Sawyer has garnered an impressive 21 international awards 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 has also received accolades for his work in the series Just The Tip (2019) as the whimsical Smokey and was nominated for his eccentric character in Roses and Restraining Orders (2017).
Sawyer won a Young Entertainer Award, considered the child actor equivalent of the Oscars, for Say It with Your Vest (2019),and has had five additional YEA nominations for Be Happy (2017),ALT + <3 (2018),A Family Christmas (2018),Just The Tip (2019),and If the Shoe Fits, Buy It! (2019),respectively.
At the age of eight, Sawyer made his stage debut in a youth theater production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1999). Later, he was cast in an Equity production of the same show with Ozark Actors Theatre, playing the role of Zebulun. He also appeared 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).
Sawyer began his professional singing career in 2007, performing in the Christmas spectacular, Holiday Showcase at the Sears Centre Arena. He went on to sing in Holst's The Planets, narrated by Leonard Nimoy, and performed again in the Sears Centre's Holiday Showcase with Tony award winner Jodi Benson. Since then, he has sung the National Anthem for various events, including 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.
Sawyer has also performed in the international Aloha Children's Choir Festival at Waikiki Shell in Honolulu with Henry Leck, alongside Grammy award-winning group Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Dove award nominees BarlowGirl. He has also sung in The Queen's Coronation Festival Gala (2013) at Buckingham Palace and for the opening of the Glasgow 2014 Opening Ceremony (2014) on BBC. Most recently, Sawyer has performed 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).
