Justin Smith was born Justin David Smith in the small town of Marshfield, Wisconsin to Jeff and Tracy Smith. His dad is the founder, CEO, and President of a building service contracting firm. His mom is a home worker and is on the board of directors of an unmarried mothers' shelter. He has one older brother, Christopher whom he greatly admires. Justin graduated from Spencer High School in 2002 and took a shot at a two year college with a Major in Criminal Justice and a Minor in Psychology. After his first semester, and thinking of his future family, Justin decided that he didn't want to be on the SWAT Team after all. He changed his Major to Music Performance and played in the College Jazz Band as first chair. That's when he started to think about acting. He heard some rumored auditions that were taking place for the college play. He auditioned without any prior training, and much to his dismay, he didn't get the part. His anger and rage caused by the cruelty of the casting director only fueled his inner desire to become a successful actor. During this last semester he met aspiring artist Jessica Anderson. They continued to date even though Jessica had moved to Eau Claire, Wisconsin to go to the University there, and in the summer they got engaged. He then got accepted to a four year college, the University of Wisconsin Green Bay. There he maintained his Music Performance Major but his dreams started to change and become more clear. The second semester of his second year in college, he changed his Major to Theatre Performance. And during this time, his relationship with Jessica started to dwindle. Although it was primarily prompted by Jessica to end the relationship, Justin was forced to break it off. After this emotional breakdown, Justin knew what he had to do. He had to get away and with nothing holding him back. So he applied to one of the most prestigious film schools, The New York Film Academy at the Los Angeles location, and got accepted. He and his brother Christopher took a U-Haul and moved Justin out to Studio City. After living in Los Angeles for two days, Justin quickly got a job offer to be a production assistant on the visual affects stage for the new Mike Judge film Idiocracy starring Luke Wilson. He then got hand picked by Mike Judge to be one of Luke Wilson's "Rodies" in the film. Throughout his schooling Justin kept up his naturalistic people skills and started getting more and more contacts in the industry. And at the beginning of that year, he started dating Sonja Long, a third grade school teacher in Arkansas and commuted frequently from Los Angeles to Arkansas in between school and independent films. After his schooling was finished, Justin got his first Studio Feature Film supporting role in Creepshow 3 as the heroine addict Ronald. Since then, Justin has appeared in over 30 independent films, and when he's not acting, he works as a Lumberjack and tours with his band Fragile, out of Wisconsin. Justin and Sonja tied the knot on November 5, 2006. Show less «