Thurman Sewell
Skateboarder
Versatile talent skilled in skateboarding, acting, writing, and painting who has also dabbled in modeling. He and his twin brother Sidney Sewell gained recognition after Chris Nieratko, a their skateboarding writer who the twins shared their amazing story with, published a story about them on Vice.com. He and Sidney are known as the Atl Twins.
He has been skateboarding his whole life. He worked terrible fast food jobs, at Baby's R Us and even worked at a warehouse sweat shop for a couple years. He was also a courier, driving 400 plus miles a day around the city of Atlanta.
The twins grew up inseparable and even started dating the same girls, including Penthouse Pet Michelle Ramos.
He is from Chattanooga, Tennessee and was raised in a poor ghetto part of town called Highland Park. Along with Sidney, he grew up with two older sisters. When he was 14, his father died. He and Sidney were then forced to live on their own until their mother moved to Atlanta when the twins were 16.
Harmony Korine cast him and Sidney in the 2012 film Spring Breakers, starring James Franco.