American actor who, as a child performer, played the rebellious young James T. Kirk in the Iowa car chase sequence of the 2009 Star Trek film.
Jimmy Bennett is an American actor and musician, born in 1996, who was one of the busiest child actors of the 2000s, with roles in Daddy Day Care, Hostage, Poseidon, Evan Almighty and Orphan, and later in the series No Ordinary Family.
In Star Trek (2009) he plays James T. Kirk as a boy growing up in Iowa without his father. In a single memorable sequence he takes his stepfather's antique Corvette for a joyride, outruns a hover-bike policeman and leaps clear as the car plunges into a quarry, then calmly gives the officer his full name.
The scene establishes the Kelvin timeline's Kirk as a reckless child before Chris Pine takes over the part as an adult.