Will Estes Biography

Will Estes (born William Estes Nipper; October 21, 1978) is an American actor best known for his role as JJ Pryor, on the NBC drama American Dreams. In 2010, he joined the cast of Tom Selleck's CBS police drama Blue Bloods. In the series, he plays Jameson "Jamie" Reagan, a New York Police Department officer and the younger son of the police commissioner, played by Selleck.

Life and career

Estes was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Mary Lu, an office administrator, and Bill Nipper, a projectionist. Estes' break-out movie role was Seaman Ronald 'Rabbit' Parker on U-571. Early in his career, he did many commercials including Fruit of the Loom and numerous guest starring roles in shows like Highway to Heaven and Santa Barbara.

He landed his first major role in a TV series when he was chosen out of 700 other kids to play Will McCollough (essentially the "Timmy" role) in the syndicated New Lassie series, which ran from 1989-91. Since then he has had many starring roles in TV shows and he dabbled in the Music Video industry. He has appeared in Meat Loaf's video "Objects In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are" (from Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell) and was in Bon Jovi's video "It's My Life" with Shiri Appleby.

In 2000, according to a 2005 Soap Talk interview, Jon Bon Jovi asked him to be in his music video after he worked with him on U-571. He did most of his own stunts in the video. So far, this has been one of his favorite career moments.

Will had a leading role in the Fox show Reunion. The show followed six best friends over the course of 20 years, with each episode marking the next successive year. When the group meets up for their 20th high school reunion, one turns up dead at the end of the night. In late 2005 Fox announced that the series would be cancelled due to low ratings and the identity of the murderer would not be revealed.

An upcoming project is a short movie Luz Del Mundo. He will be playing Jack Kerouac, a good friend of Neal Cassady. The movie is in post production and will be seen in future film festivals. It was written by Ty Roberts and David Trimble, directed by Ty Roberts and produced by Ryan McWhirter and John Pitts.

He has also appeared in a couple photographs, in the books Hollywood Splash ISBN 1-57687-183-5 and Men Before 10 AM Too ISBN 1-57687-084-7

He was nominated 4 different times for one award, the Young Artist Awards for The New Lassie and Kirk.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2012	The Dark Knight Rises	Police Officer
2012	Shadow of Fear	Morgan Pierce	2012 Movie starring Amanda Righetti and Harry Hamlin
2010	Magic Valley	Jimmy Duvante	Post-Production
	Blue Bloods	Jamie Reagan	Series regular 2010"present
2009	Taxidermist	Gavin	Pre-Production
2008	Eleventh Hour	Kevin Pierce	Appearance in Season One's Episode 7
	Squeegees	Pee-Wee Machachi	Webisodes available on imdb
	Not Since You	Billy	Post-Production
2006	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Adam Halder	Class
2005	The Drive	Aaron
	The Dive From Clausen's Pier	Mike Mayor
	Reunion	Will Malloy
	Pet Star	Himself	Judge
2004	Charity	Repo Man
2003
	Mimic 2	Nicky
	New Port South	Chris
2003	Celebrity Jeopardy!	Himself	Contestant
2002"2005	American Dreams	JJ Pryor	Series regular
2002	May	Adam
2001	The Familiar Stranger	Ted Walsh
2000	See You in My Dreams	Ben
	U-571	Seaman Ronald 'Rabbit' Parker
	Terror Tract	Sean Goodwin	Segment: "Come to Granny"
	The Fugitive	Jesse Larson	Guilt
1999	Blue Ridge Fall	Taz
1999"2000	7th Heaven	Andrew Nayloss	5 Appearances
1997/1998	The Secret World of Alex Mack	Hunter Reeves	Season 4 regular
1998	Diagnosis: Murder	Erik Fincher	An Education in Murder
	Kelly Kelly	Sean Kelly	Series regular
1997	Meego	Trip Parker	Series regular
1995	The Road Home	Michael
	Full House	Andrew	Michelle Rides Again, Part One & Part Two
	Kirk	Cory Hartman	Series Regular
	How to Make an American Quilt	Boy at Party
1994	Step by Step	Kevin Phillips	Growing Up in Hard to Do
1994"1996	Boy Meets World	Alex/Dylan	Turnaround & Career Day as Alex Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow as Dylan
1993	Circus of the Stars Gives Kids the World	Himself	Trapeze Artist
	Jonny's Golden Quest	Jonny	as Will Nipper
	When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn	Gary Black	Mini-series
	Once Upon a Forest	Willy	as Will Nipper
	It Had to be You	Christopher Quinn
1992	Harry and the Hendersons	Brad	Harry the Mascot
	Baywatch	Cooper	The Chamber
1991	Dutch	Teddy	as Will Nipper
	The Last Halloween	Michael	as Will Nipper
1990	Miracle Landing	David Kornberg	as Will Nipper
	Menu for Murder	Chad
1989	Murphy's Law	George Segal	Doing It the Hard Way Is Always Easier
	The New Lassie	Will McCullough	as Will Nipper
1988/1989	Highway to Heaven	2 different roles	Merry Christmas from Grandpa The Correspondent
1984	Santa Barbara	Brandon DeMott Capwell	Temporary Replacement