Former Seaside boy in Super Bowl commercial

Published 4:00 pm Wednesday, February 2, 2011

He caught the acting bug when he was attending preschool in Seaside.

Now 10-year-old Preston Bailey is appearing a commercial during Sundays Super Bowl.

Bailey appears with actor Hugh Laurie in a spot advertising the TV show House.

 When Bailey was attending preschool in Seaside, he caught the acting bug from his older brother Brennan. The family would travel to Portland for theater and acting classes. After booking commercial and feature films in Portland, the family moved to Southern California.

Bailey has been a member of The Screen Actors Guild since he was five. His resume includes regular appearances on Showtimes Dexter on which he plays Dexters son Cody. THe has also appeared on Cold Case, Numbers and How I Met Your Mother.

He can be seen in The Crazies, and opposite Kate Beckinsale, David Schwimmer and Matt Dillon in the political drama, Nothing But The Truth.

Baileys next job, the feature film The Apologist, starts filming this spring in Canada. He will star opposite Avatars Giovanni Ribisi and another Oregon native, Sam Elliott.

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