Ryan Kwanten
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| Born | 28 November 1976 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Ryan Kwanten (born 28 November 1976) is an Australian actor.
Kwanten was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He began acting on the television shows A Country Practice and Spellbinder. In 1997, he joined the cast of the Australian soap opera Home and Away, playing lifeguard Vinnie Patterson. Kwanten starred on the show for several years, becoming a sex symbol. He eventually chose to leave the series in 2002, shortly after his character married and became a father.
Moving to the United States, Kwanten was cast as Jay Robertson in the Lori Loughlin-starring series Summerland, where he met his current wife Lisa Kwanten when she made a small appearearence on the show. which ran from 2004 to 2005. He most recently appeared in the films Flicka, with Maria Bello, Alison Lohman and Tim McGraw, and Dead Silence, a horror movie in which he played the leading role. Kwanten has also been cast in True Blood as Jason Stackhouse, a television series based on Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire Mysteries, also starring Anna Paquin and Sam Trammell.[1]
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
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| 2007 | Don't Fade Away | Jackson White | ||
| Dead Silence | Jamie Ashen | |||
| 2006 | Flicka | Howard McLaughlin | ||
| 2005 | America Brown | Ricky Brown | ||
| 2004-2005 | Summerland | Jay Robertson | TV series | |
| 2003 | Liquid Bridge | Nick McCallum | ||
| 1997-2002 | Home and Away | Vinnie Patterson | TV series | |
| 1997 | Spellbinder 2: Land of the Dragon Lord | Josh Morgan | ||
| 1994 | Signal One | Kid | direct-to-video |
