Ryan Kwanten

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 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.... more