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RECENT CREDITS

Dead Silence (FILM) Mar. 16, 2007

Flicka (FILM) Oct. 20, 2006

America Brown (FILM) Oct. 28, 2005

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An actor who seemed predestined for enlistment as a screen heartthrob, muscle-bound Aussie performer Ryan Kwanten specialized in portrayals of young, well-built, slightly jocky types, including lifeguards, surfers and athletes. Born in 1976, Kwanten attained Australian celebrity in his early twenties, with an ongoing role in the late 1990s as lifeguard Vinnie Patterson on the long-running Australian soap Home and Away. That assignment imparted Kwanten with a large and loyal following that found its strongest base among female viewers, and prepped him for one of his first major Hollywood assignments - a lead portrayal of surfer Nick McCallum in the big screen surf drama Liquid Bridge (2003). Beginning the following year, Kwanten turned up as surf shop proprietor Jay Robertson in both seasons of the WB network's Summerland; he also played a widower who comes face-to-face with a small town's ghastly curse in director James Wan's grisly horror outing Dead Silence (2007) and then signed on to play Jason Stackhouse, the brother of a clairvoyant waitress (Anna Paquin) on Alan Ball's HBO vampire series True Blood.

~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

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Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer star on HBO's 'True Blood: Season 2'

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May. 18, 2009

No, summer’s vast lineup of returning series does not consist solely of reality shows (but yes, there are those, too). What if we told you that the best scripted show on TV, period, is set for a summer comeback? Is that something you might be interested in ... ?

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TV Review: HBO's 'True Blood'

Posted: Sep. 5, 2008

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