Jake McDorman was born July 8, 1986 in Dallas, Texas, the son of Deborah and John Allen McDorman III. He has a younger sister, Morgan, and an older half-sister, Mandy. After dropping out of the Boy Scouts of America to pursue his acting career, he booked his first job playing a Boy Scout in an industrial film about the importance of Scouting. McDorman studied acting at the Dallas Young Actors Studio and attended Richardson High School, Westwood JH, and Northwood Hills Elementary in Texas. He began his career as an actor in smaller fims and gradually increased his role and plated major actors in his latest films.