Ryan Kwanten Biography
Summary
"Ryan Kwanten" (born 28 November, 1976 ) is an Australian actor.
Life and Career
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", which ran from 2004 to 2005. He 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. In 2009 he will star in the film Don't Fade Away with Mischa Barton and Beau Bridges.
Kwanten currently plays the role of Jason Stackhouse in "True Blood," a television series based on Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire Mysteries. Season 2 of True Blood began airing in June 2009. Ryan Kwanten also made an appearance in a "Law and Order: SVU" episode that aired on December 2, 2008, in which he portrays US Marine Corps Master Sergeant Dominic Pruitt who is (falsely) accused of raping and murdering a fellow marine and murdering her unborn baby.
Credit
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