- Nickname
- Sully
- 2016 marked the year that Sully Seagull's extraordinary career started. He landed a substantial supporting role in The Shallows (2016), co-starring with Blake Lively in what was to become one of the most successful summer movies of the year. Sully received rave reviews for his multi-layered portrayal of a handicapped gull bravely trying to escape a scary shark's appetite. Vulture.com called him "The Breakout Movie Star of the Summer", and renowned film critic Winston Cook Wilson praised his "bold, controlled, and unexpected" performance and even demanded an Oscar nomination for the feathered star of Jaume Collet-Serra's thriller. Entertainment Weekly published an insightful article about the making of The Shallows (2016), pointing out: "Forget the shark that stalks Blake Lively; the seagull stranded with her on the rock [...] stealthily stole every scene he appeared in. Nicknamed Sully by the film's animal trainer, Katie Brock, the feathered star engaged comically with Lively's heroine Nancy and drew praise for his performance."
After a three-year hiatus from the spotlight, Sully was persuaded to take over a more demanding character role in Robert Eggers's The Lighthouse (2019) with Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe. He agreed to appear uncredited in this acclaimed fantasy drama.
In his spare time, Sully enjoys flying and fishing.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Train Wreck Lady
- Cleanest bird on set
- He was very close to his leading lady from The Shallows (2016), Blake Lively. Lively later admitted that she occasionally turned to Sully for acting advice.
- Sully lives (to this day) in a seagull sanctuary in Australia. He is a very private bird and shows absolutely no showbiz attitude in real-life, even though he is famous for his Streep-like work ethics in the film industry.
- Two extra seagulls were used to portray Steven Seagull in The Shallows (2016). According to producer Matti Leshem, she added "They were all good but not nearly as good as him. Peggy was the vocal one, the very squawky bird. Gaviota (which means seagull in Spanish), I think he's almost 30 [as Steven is estimated to be about 15 or 20 years old]. The most challenging thing about Sully Seagull as an actor is that seagulls are remarkably clean. They self clean a lot, so the blood on Sully, obviously fake blood, he kept wanting to clean it off, so we had to deal with that.".
- Appeared with Jamie Dornan in Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021), his first comedy. He was also in the music video, "Edgar's Prayer", playing a gull on a tire.
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