by Jon Baliles
The Chesterfield County weekly newsletter featured a great story last week about Bailey Sheetz, a 13-year old Chester resident who is now on a first-name basis with Jerry Seinfeld and Melissa McCarthy in Hollywood. Sheetz made his movie debut in Seinfeld’s new Netflix movie “Unfrosted,” the satirical comedy about the launch of what we now know and love as the Pop-Tart.
Sheetz walked the red carpet with the venerable comedian and has become noticed in Hollywood and has his own agent and an IMDb.com page. A few years ago, at the tender age of eight, CBS6’s Wayne Covil ran a story about Sheetz and his innate ability to fix old vacuum cleaners and his appreciation for anything antique. From that story, Sheetz was sought out and cast in the Season 4 premiere of “Little Big Shots”
After his Little Big Shots appearance, Covid shut down the filming industry for a while but Sheetz got an agent and received a callback. He finally got a voiceover role in the “Duck and Goose” animated children’s series and then received a callback in early 2022 to audition for “Unfrosted.” He recored his audition tape at home with his parents, Bryan and Nancy, both teachers in Chesterfield schools, reading with him and filming him. A month later, Bailey received an invitation for a Zoom callback that was conducted by Jerry Seinfeld himself. Continue reading