American actor Drake Bell for a long time starred in the "walk-through" series, until he was lucky enough to star in the project "Drake and Josh", which went on the Nickelodeon channel in the middle of the 2000s. Inspired by success, the actor began to study music and became a famous musician.
Biography
Drake Bell was born in 1986 in the city of Santa Anna, in the state of California. He had a very interesting family: stepfather and mother, who professionally played billiards.
From childhood, the boy gravitated to various shows: he often left home to listen to the performance of street musicians. And his parents tried to record him in different sports sections, but it was all useless - he was not interested in sports.
But he perfectly mimicked others and exactly copied the behavior of TV presenters. They had to put up with close ones - they took him to the casting of commercials. A lively and agile boy charmed the commission, and they took him to the project. So already in five years, Drake played his first roles in advertising and in episodes of several series.
Movie career
Drake's debut as an actor took place quite early: at the age of ten, he played the role of Jesse Remo in the movie "Jerry Maguire." A little later, he had the same small roles in the TV series "Disappearance", "Seinfeld", "Scoundrels", "Pretenders" and others.
At the beginning of the 2000s, Bella was invited to the famous Amanda Show, and it was there that the creators of the Drake and Josh project saw him. His partner in the series was Josh Peck, and after filming, he became Drake's best friend.
The series "Drake and Josh" made the actor a real celebrity, which was expressed in great attention from the audience and in new invitations to interesting roles.
Another significant work in the actor’s portfolio is his role in the show “Zoe 101”, in which he starred for many years, and for three consecutive years received the Nickelodeon channel award as “Favorite Television Actor”.
In 2005, Bell starred in a small role in the comedy "Yours, Mine and Ours", and it was a happy time in the hectic filming surrounded by a large number of people. However, the best part was that the film was very fond of the audience and was shown in many countries.
Gradually, Drake's popularity grew, and in 2007 he was invited to star in the film "College". The actor was already twenty-one years old, but he looked barely seventeen, so he was quite suitable for the role of a first-year student. His hero Kevin Brever, along with Morris and Carter, got into such adventures and misadventures during the story that they barely survived all these tests. And all because they did not know the important first-year rule, which states that the main thing in the first year in college is not to make enemies.
The second decade of the new century began for Bell with the series Avengers. The Greatest Heroes of the Earth (2010-2012) and the film Magic Parents. By the way, the series was among the best of the actor’s portfolio, as were the series Seinfeld (1989-1998), Pretender (1996-2000) and Phineas and Ferb (2007-2015). And in the series "Drake and Josh" (2004-2007), Bell acted not only as an actor, but also as a director.
Since 2012, Bell began to actively engage in voice acting, having found in this for himself another plane of application in the cinema. And then most of his attention was taken away by music.
Music
He had written songs before, and those who heard the soundtrack to the Drake and Josh series know that it was Bell who wrote it. He did not think that his musical work might be useful somewhere, but the creators of the project liked the music. This inspired the young actor, and he began to try to realize himself as a composer and performer.
In 2005, Bell's debut album, Telegraph, was released. His songs earned the love of thousands of fans, and then representatives of record companies drew attention to the budding musician. And in 2006, Drake signed a contract with Universal Records, where he later recorded another record, which he called It's Only Time.
Then in his musical life an important event took place: he went on a tour of the American continent and visited many cities. The audience of the small halls where Bell performed, warmly welcomed him, and this pleased the musician and made him even more famous.
Bell's latest creative innovation is a clip for the song Rewind, which he shot in 2018. In one interview, he said that he was not going to record more albums, but he would continue to perform in bars and small halls.
And all because shooting in films for him is still ongoing, and they take a lot of time. So, in 2018, Drake starred in three short films and in the detective "Cover version." For the future, he also plans to work on television and in films.
To date, the best films in his portfolio are considered to be Drake and Josh in Hollywood (2006), Jerry Maguire (1996), Jack Bull (1999) and Yours, Mine and Ours (2005)
