Kevin Zegers debuts today in The Rookie: Feds on ABC

CTV will air show starring the Woodstock actor

My quick break from campaigning to promote local talent

The Rookie: Feds is a brand new TV show on ABC and it’s also appearing on CTV from coast-to-coast.

The show has 5 main stars – all rookies learning how to be federal agents.

Kevin Zegers of Woodstock is among the program’s stars. Zegers most recently appeared on the small screen in the Erin Brockovich inspired legal drama called Rebel where Kevin played a doctor and one of Katey Segal’s grown children.

He also was cast in the role of Oscar in the show Notorious back in 2016.

Way back in 2013, Zegers was a newspaper reporter tracking down the details of a mysterious death in the network TV drama Gracepoint.

To additionally display his depth of roles, many may recall the nighttime soap opera Titans in 2000, but if you forgot that’s okay too as it lasted just 14 episodes.

Zegers has amassed quite a resume for a 38-year-old actor who started out in children’s movies such as Air Bud (1997), Life With Mikey with Michael J Fox as star (1993) and MVP Most Valuable Primate (2000). If you look at the IMDB list for MVP performers it will display the names of 3 monkeys as stars before noting Zegers.

I own many of his pictures on DVD, including Virginia’s Run (2002), which would have been admired by anyone who loves a story about horses and characters coming-of-age.

I have included links here to 3 past writings (compilations of his background accomplishments) and must point out that this Woodstock actor has certainly accumulated a vast and ranging portfolio of performances from the son Toby in Transamerica (2005) to a steely apocalypse survivor in Colony (2013), and most recently Capt Jason Brody in the Bruce Willis super hero movie Corrective Measures which had an April 2022 release date. For the Transamerica flick, Zegers would earn an acting award at the Cannes Film Festival.

His Wikipedia page notes 42 movies and dozens of TV roles with the appearance I always recall quickly in The X-Files where he was a boy who possessed a stigmata. I was never a huge X-Files fan but that paranormal episode seems to be among the best-ever and poignant for that series due to its overall pace and evolution of the plotline with religious connotations. At the time, Zegers was just 11 and it was 2 years before his original depiction of Josh Framm in the Air Bud dog / basketball movies.

In 2008, Zegers was in the cast of the original Gossip Girls television teen-drama-romance show.

Kevin Joseph Zegers, who turned 38 on Sept. 19, had his first TV credit in the Can-Con drama Street Legal.

Back in the day (I realize it's the ultimate cliche for FB pages about reminiscing), I chatted with Kevin often when I saw him and the rest of his family (Parents and 2 sisters) at church on Sundays. Zegers played travel hockey in Woodstock and was a natural athlete, so throwing jump shots with a golden retriever or skating with a primate would have been learned skills. Zegers is married to Jaime Feld and they have 2 daughters.

I say nothing here about the plot, pacing and tone of The Rookie: Feds as I haven't seen an episode yet, but will certainly be glued to my set. 

2016 blog:

https://marklivesinwoodstock.blogspot.com/2016/09/notorious-is-new-abc-tv-show-featuring.html

2014 blog:

https://marklivesinwoodstock.blogspot.com/2014/10/gracepoint-newest-acting-project-for.html

2013 blog:

https://marklivesinwoodstock.blogspot.com/2013/04/air-bud-to-colony-for-zegers.html