Biography

Brett Earl Zimmerman "BEZ" was born in Rock Hill, South Carolina to Kathy Zimmerman (née Ghent, now Patterson), a nurse and David Zimmerman, a Principal Level III of Ultrasonics at Duke Energy. He was raised through the years in the Carolinas as his family relocated first to Charlotte, North Carolina, and then later to Fort Mill, South Carolina, but his roots of ancestry are of Scandinavian, Scottish, Irish, and German decent. After graduating from Fort Mill High School he attended Clemson University, where he first developed a true interest in acting. In order to pay for both his education, as well as his ambition to pursue an acting career, he juggled multiple jobs while balancing classes and auditioning. During this time he earned work from auditions allowing him to appear in a number of commercials and television productions filming in the southeast, and it was while on the set of One Tree Hill (2008) that he decided to pursue acting as a full-time career. After graduating from college with a degree in Business Management he studied acting for 2 years in Charlotte, North Carolina, before relocating to Los Angeles in 2010.

Since his move to Los Angeles, Zimmerman has been seen in many notable roles ranging from his earlier commercial work where he portrayed Marvel's Captain America alongside comic-book-legend Stan Lee in the Dr. Pepper "One of a Kind Avengers" commercial (2011) which aired theatrically in the months leading up to the first Avengers film titled, "The Avengers" (2012). This was followed by a 4 episode arc as Officer Twyman in the TV series Hollywood Heights (2012), before he landed the role of Eddie in the long-running soap Days of Our Lives (2012-2014). In 2013 he appeared as Officer Burr in the television pilot Beverly Hills Cop (2013), alongside Eddie Murphy and Brandon T. Jackson, before filming guest star roles in the sitcoms Love That Girl! (2014), the Lifetime legal comedy-drama Drop Dead Diva (2013), and Devious Maids (2014). Zimmerman rounded out the year by making his feature film debut as Mark in Disney's biographical sports drama Million Dollar Arm (2014), opposite of Jon Hamm and Lake Bell. His momentum continued as he's garnered respected work in episodes of Charlie Sheen's, Anger Management (2014), NCIS: New Orleans (2014-2019), ABC's smash hit dramas How to Get Away With Murder (2015), Grey's Anatomy (2016), and finally Hawaii Five-0 (2018).

More recent projects include leading roles in both the virtual reality film Flesh and Bone (2017), produced by JauntVR, and the highly anticipated game, Call of Duty: World War II (2017), produced by Activision and Sledgehammer Games. Zimmerman portrays PFC Ronald 'Red' Daniels as the primary playable character opposite Josh Duhamel and Jonathan Tucker. In addition, his work can be seen in multiple projects now streaming on Netflix; Only Mine (2019) and The CW's All American (2020). In Only Mine, Zimmerman plays the lead antagonist opposite of Amber Midthunder and Chris Browning, and gives a chilling depiction of a relationship bound by coercive control and manipulation. All American, he joined Taye Diggs as Super Bowl winning quarterback, Matt Springer.

As his attraction towards acting grows, Zimmerman recently took an interest in producing to gain more creative control with respect to the projects he attaches himself to, and the stories he tells. He produced and acted in the award winning short film, Clarity (2020), where he took Best Actor - Short at the Mammoth Film Festival, and Clarity earned Best Short.

He spent much of 2020 - 2022 producing and acting in two features alongside friends and family, with plans to release them both later this year. In upcoming television, Zimmerman can be seen in the CBS series remake of Magnum, P.I. (2023) sharing the screen with series leads, Jay Hernandez and Zachary Knighton.

- IMDb mini biography by: Gavin Levinson