Ryan Kwanten
Ryan Christian Kwanten is an Australian actor and producer. He played Vinnie Patterson from 1997 to 2002 in the Australian soap opera Home and Away. After his stint ended, he joined the American teen drama series Summerland, portraying Jay Robertson.
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Ryan Kwanten

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- Born
- 1976 · Sydney.
- Nationality
- Australia
- Occupation
- actor · model · film producer
- Fields
- film acting
- Education
- University of Sydney · St Paul's Catholic College and Manly
- Languages
- English
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Ryan Christian Kwanten is an Australian actor and producer. He played Vinnie Patterson from 1997 to 2002 in the Australian soap opera Home and Away. After his stint ended, he joined the American teen drama series Summerland, portraying Jay Robertson.
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Early life
Early life
From 2008 to 2014, he played Jason Stackhouse in True Blood. From 2018 to 2019 he produced and starred in the crime drama series The Oath as Steve Hammond. In 2021 he starred in season one of the horror drama anthology series Them as George Bell. In 2022, he portrayed Thomas Weylin in Kindred, a series adaptation based on Octavia E. Butler's celebrated 1979 novel of the same name.
Kwanten was born one of three brothers in Terrigal, New South Wales. The boys were raised by mother Kris, a Lifeline op shop coordinator, and father Eddie Kwanten, a worker at NSW Maritime. Eddie is of Dutch descent. 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.
Career
Career
Kwanten began acting on the television shows A Country Practice, Hey Dad..! and Spellbinder. In 1997, he joined the cast of the Australian soap opera Home and Away, playing lifeguard Vinnie Patterson. He eventually chose to leave the series in 2002, shortly after his character married and became a father. Kwanten had previously guest starred on the serial as Robbie Taylor in 1994. Moving to the United States, Kwanten was cast as Jay Robertson in Summerland (2004–05). He appeared in the films Flicka (2006), with Maria Bello, Alison Lohman and Tim McGraw, and Dead Silence (2007), a horror film in which he played the leading role, Jamie Ashen. Kwanten appeared in a Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode that aired on 2 December 2008, in which he portrayed Dominic Pruitt, a US Marine Corps Master Sergeant accused of raping and murdering a pregnant fellow Marine. In 2009, he starred in the film Don't Fade Away with Mischa Barton and Beau Bridges. In 2010, 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 2008 until 2014. In 2010 he starred in the psychological thriller Red Hill, which was directed by Patrick Hughes. He won a lead role in the 2013 Joe Lynch comedy-horror film Knights of Badassdom along with Steve Zahn, Summer Glau and Peter Dinklage. In October 2010, it was announced that Kwanten will play Charles Manson in an upcoming, yet-to-be-titled biopic, to be directed by Brad Anderson. In 2012, he appeared in Joe Penna's video "Dual Action". In 2013, Kwanten played Marvel character "Venom" in the short film Truth in Journalism and portrayed Conall in the 2014 action adventure film Northmen: A Viking Saga. In 2015, 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 2019, 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 Grimm fairy tale as well as real-life murder cases. From 2018 to 2019 he produced and starred in the crime drama series The Oath as Steve Hammond. His most recent roles include 2067, an Australian-American science fiction film in which he plays Jude Mathers, 2021's Them, as milkman George Bell, and Kindred, a TV adaptation of Octavia Butler's novel of the same name.

Actor Ryan Kwanten - "True Blood" 25th Annual Paley Television Festival - ArcLight Cinemas, Los Angeles.
Kristin Dos Santos · Flickr

Ryan Kwanten with a fan
Rick Marshall · Flickr: Hey, it's Jason Stackhouse!
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- 1.Dasey, Annette. Ryan Kwanten: Shark Attack Survivor. Who. 31 December 2009.
- 2.Double take. TV Week. 44. 27. 1–7 November 2003.
- 3.Vnuk, Helen. From the Bay to the beach. TV Week. 24. 7. 12–18 June 2004.
- 4.Miska, Brad. 'True Blood' Star Becomes One of the 'Knights of Badassdom'. 9 June 2010.
- 5.Ryan Kwanten Talks Secrets Of 'True Blood' Season 3, Gearing Up For World Cup Action.
- 6.Anna Paquin Learns True Blood. MovieWeb. The Hollywood Reporter. 25 February 2007.
- 7.Teaser Trailer, Art, and Synopsis: Red Hill, dreadcentral.com; accessed 5 November 2017.
- 8.More Knights of Badassdom Casting News: True Blood's Ryan Kwanten Joins in on the Mayhem, dreadcentral.com; accessed 5 November 2017.
- 9.Kwanten To Play Charles Manson. Contactmusic.com. 27 October 2010.
- 10.McMillan, Graeme. 'Truth in Journalism' Short Teases Spider-Man Villain (Video). The Hollywood Reporter. 1 August 2013.
- 11.Northmen: clip shows why you don't mess with Vikings, dreadcentral.com; accessed 5 November 2017.
- 12.'Sacred Lies: The Singing Bones': Juliette Lewis, Ryan Kwanten & Jordan Alexander To Star In Season 2 Of Blumhouse TV/Facebook Series. 27 June 2019.
- 13.Scream 2009. Spike.com. 2010.
- 14.Waldman, Allison. Glee and Breaking Bad top the Satellite Awards. TV Squad. Newstex. 22 December 2009.
- 15.Pond, Steve. 'Hurt Locker,' 'Nine' Win Top Satellite Awards. The Wrap. Newstex. 21 December 2009.
- 16.CBC News. Screen Actors Guild unveils film, TV award nominees. 17 December 2009.
- 17.United Press International. 'Dexter,' 'Closer' earn 3 SAG nods apiece. 17 December 2009.
- 18.Hambly, Natalie. Teens take to Avatar star Sam Worthington. The Sydney Morning Herald. 16 June 2010.
- 19.Soll, Lindsay. Teen Choice Awards 2010: First Round Of Nominees Announced. Hollywood Crush. MTV. 14 June 2010.
- 20.ABC News (Australia). Hemsworth, Kwanten take breakthrough awards. 27 April 2010.
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