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Australian actor and producer (born )

Ryan Christian Kwanten (born 28 November ) is an Australian actor and producer.

He played Vinnie Patterson from to in the Australian soap operaHome and Away. After his stint ended, he joined the American teen drama series Summerland, portraying Jay Robertson. From to , he played Jason Stackhouse in True Blood. From to he produced and starred in the crime drama series The Oath as Steve Hammond.

In he starred in season one of the horror dramaanthology seriesThem as George Bell. In , he portrayed Thomas Weylin in Kindred, a series adaptation based on Octavia E. Butler's celebrated novel of the same name.

Early life

Kwanten was born one of three brothers in Terrigal, New South Wales.

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The boys were raised by mother Kris, a Lifelineop shop coordinator, and father Eddie Kwanten, a worker at NSW Maritime. Eddie is Dutch.^[1] Ryan's brothers are Mitchell, a musician, and Lloyd, a doctor. Ryan attended St Paul's Catholic College in Manly and later earned a degree in commerce from The University of Sydney.^[1]

Career

Kwanten began acting on the television shows A Country Practice, Hey Dad..! and Spellbinder.

In , he joined the cast of the Australian soap opera Home and Away, playing lifeguard Vinnie Patterson. He eventually chose to leave the series in , shortly after his character married and became a father. Kwanten had previously guest starred on the serial as Robbie Taylor in Moving to the United States, Kwanten was cast as Jay Robertson in Summerland (–05).

He appeared in the films Flicka (), with Maria Bello, Alison Lohman and Tim McGraw, and Dead Silence (), a horror film in which he played the leading role, Jamie Ashen.^[2]

Kwanten appeared in a Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode that aired on 2 December , in which he portrayed Dominic Pruitt, a US Marine CorpsMaster Sergeant accused of raping and murdering a pregnant fellow Marine.

In , he starred in the film Don't Fade Away with Mischa Barton and Beau Bridges.^[3] In , Kwanten voiced the role of Kludd in the animated-epic film Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, although he was originally set to voice the film's protagonist Sorren before the role went to Jim Sturgess.

Kwanten played the role of Jason Stackhouse in the HBO series True Blood, based on Charlaine Harris's The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels, which aired from until ^[4] In he starred in the psychological thriller Red Hill, which was directed by Patrick Hughes.^[5] He won a lead role in the Joe Lynch comedy-horror film Knights of Badassdom along with Steve Zahn, Summer Glau and Peter Dinklage.^[6] In October , it was announced that Kwanten will play Charles Manson in an upcoming, yet-to-be-titled biopic, to be directed by Brad Anderson.^[7] In , he appeared in Joe Penna's video "Dual Action".

In , Kwanten played Marvel character "Venom" in the short film Truth in Journalism^[8] and portrayed Conall in the action adventure film Northmen: A Viking Saga.^[9]

In , Kwanten voiced the role of Blinky Bill, a koala in Blinky Bill the Movie alongside Rufus Sewell, Toni Collette, Robin McLeavy, David Wenham, Richard Roxburgh, Deborah Mailman, and Barry Humphries.

In , Kwanten was a series regular in the second season of Blumhouse Television and Facebook Watch's Sacred Lies: The Singing Bones, playing the character of Peter Wolfe, an inmate and the estranged father of the series' protagonist, Elsie, played by Jordan Alexander. The series takes inspiration from a Brothers Grimmfairy tale as well as real-life murder cases.^[10]

From to he produced and starred in the crime drama series The Oath as Steve Hammond.

His most recent roles include , an Australian-American&#;science fiction film&#;in which he plays Jude Mathers, 's Them, as milkman George Bell, and Kindred, a TV adaptation of Octavia Butler's Novel of the same name.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

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