Ryan Kwanten

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Ryan Kwanten
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 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, a television series about vampires also starring Anna Paquin and Sam Trammell.[1]

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Year Title Role Notes
2007 Don't Fade Away Jackson White
Dead Silence Jamie Ashen
2006 Flicka Howard McLaughlin
2005 America Brown Ricky Brown
2003 Liquid Bridge Nick McCallum direct-to-video
1994 Signal One Kid direct-to-video

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ The Hollywood Reporter. "Anna Paquin Learns True Blood", MovieWeb, 2007-02-25. Retrieved on March 18, 2007.

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