Ryan Kwanten Bio (Biography)
Real name:
Ryan Christian Kwanten
Date of birth:
November 28. 1976
Place of birth:
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Astrology Sign:
Sagittarius
Height:
5' 10" (1.78 m)
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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 had married and become 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 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.
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 had married and become 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 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.