About Khleo Thomas

Birthdate: January 30, 1989 Birthplace: Anchorage, Alaska Khleo Thomas was born in Alaska where his dad was stationed with the Army. Later the Thomas family moved to Southern California where Khleo began doing TV commercials when he was only six. Khleo Thomas decided to shorten his name for his acting career and picked Khleo (pronounced Cleo) because it was a combination of both his first and middle names - Khaleed Leon. Khleo Thomas landed a guest role on the T-NBC show City Guys and a role in the comedy movie Friday After Next before scoring the role of Zero in Holes. Khleo Thomas Lands Zero Khleo Thomas auditioned three times for the role of Zero in the Disney hit movie Holes. First for the casting director, then for the director and finally he did a screen test (a filmed audition). Khelo didn't think he got the role because there were so many other kids at the screen test and no one seemed to pay attention to him. Two days later he got the part. Khleo Thomas - Did U Know? Khelo Thomas has two younger brothers, Khadeem and Khamel. Neither Khelo Thomas nor Shia LaBeouf had read the book Holes before landing their parts in the movie. Khleo Thomas' fave subject in school is science. Khelo is into sports and loves to play basketball, baseball, football, skateboard, and lift weights with his dad. Khleo Thomas Says... "After I read it [the book, Holes], I expected to be in the desert, but you just can't be ready for that until you're right there."

Khleo Thomas, who played Zero in the movie Holes, has appeared in several commercials that can be seen daily on the Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, and the WB Network. Khleo made his debut as a child-guest on Bill Cosby's Kids Say the Darndest Things. Khleo, who turned 16 on January 30, says that school is very important to him. His mother, who was born in Morocco, speaks five languages. What subject does Khleo like most? "I like science because of the different things you can do, like dissect frogs," he said. Thomas, whose full name is Khaleed Leon (Khleo is a stage moniker combining the two), was born in Anchorage, Alaska, where his father was stationed with the Army. After relocating to Southern California, he began working in commercials at age 6. Though "Holes" is based on a popular book, neither Thomas nor LaBeouf had read it before they were cast. "After I read it," Thomas says, "I expected to be in the desert, but you just can't be ready for that until you're right there." To prepare for the 100-plus-degree heat they would endure while filming outside Ridgecrest, the actors underwent a two-week physical training camp. As he explains, "We had to climb rope, dig holes, run, go hiking, do sit-ups and push-ups. The whole time we were thinking, why do we need this? Then we get to the desert and we understood. It was so hot, you could only be in a hole for 20 minutes at a time." Besides Holes, Khleo also had a small role in Friday after Next. More

He appeared as "Pete" in Walking Tall the remake of the 1973 hit. He is set to appear in 2005 along with Bow Wow in Roll Bounce it is about 1970s roller-skate jams fuel coming-of-age comedy, as X (Bow Wow) and his friends, who rule their local rink, are shocked when their home base goes out of business. Heading over to the Sweetwater Roller Rink, they find their modest talents are, at first, no competition for their trick skaters and pretty girls who follow their every move. On TV he has guest starred on City Guys, Super Short Show and recently on the long running ER as "Brian" a 13 year old with a hard lesson to learn in the episode "Forgive and Forget" early in 2004. as well as The Wayne Brady Show. He also appeared in the made for television movie Going to the Mat from Disney Original Movies. His other TV guest spots includes Family Law and Kids Say the Darndest Things.
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