Derek Boone

Derek Reid Boone was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1984 to Reid Boone and Debbie Lund. His father was a champion body builder winning Mr. Utah in 1977. His mother who is now remarried, co owns an art gallery in Park City, UT with her husband/artist Allen Lund. Derek's passion for acting started at age 17, his step father Allen had an art studio above a studio that did acting classes. Allen knowing how much Derek loved movies, asked if he would like to try an acting class. He of course said yes and was hooked immediately. Derek landed his first feature role soon after in the made for television Disney movie "Right on Track" opposite Brie Larson and Beverly Mitchell. Derek wandered off his path in the few years after and went through drug rehab for 14 months in 2007. He has been sober since, his passion and love for acting reignited and says "my years of addiction and long rehab made a light bulb turn on of expressing the truth of emotions in my acting". With an acting career landing r