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53 Facts About Justin Chatwin

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Justin Chatwin was born on October 31,1982 and is a Canadian actor.

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Justin Chatwin began his career in 2001 with a brief appearance in the musical comedy Josie and the Pussycats.

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Justin Chatwin starred as rock star idol Bobby Shore in the sci-fi musical Bang Bang Baby, which earned him a Canadian Screen Awards nomination for Best Supporting Actor, and appeared in the romantic comedy Unleashed, and drama Summer Night.

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From 2019 to 2021, Justin Chatwin played scientist Erik Wallace in Netflix's Another Life.

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Justin Chatwin is the son of Suzanne, a freelance mixed-media artist, and Brian, an engineer who founded in 1982 Chatwin Engineering, a construction and civil engineering company based in British Columbia, where he served as President and CEO.

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Justin Chatwin has a younger sister, Brianna, who works as a tattoo artist.

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Justin Chatwin made his debut in the musical comedy Josie and the Pussycats, in which he played an enthusiastic fan.

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Justin Chatwin went on to guest-star in several television series including Smallville, Mysterious Ways, Night Visions, Just Cause, Glory Days, Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction and Taken, playing a juvenile delinquent in the television film The Incredible Mrs Ritchie, directed by Paul Johansson.

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Justin Chatwin was a helper and friend of the title characters in the family-oriented comedy Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2, a sequel to the 1999 film Baby Geniuses.

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Justin Chatwin starred opposite Kate Mara in The WB pilot Prodigy, about a child prodigy.

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That same month, Justin Chatwin appeared in the Showtime series pilot Weeds as the troubled homosexual son of Kevin Nealon's character.

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Justin Chatwin reprised his role seven years later for the series finale.

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In 2006, Justin Chatwin guest-starred as the undercover cop Eddie Colburn on the ABC drama series Lost.

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That same year, Justin Chatwin made his off-Broadway debut in Trip Cullman's play Dark Matters at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.

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Justin Chatwin landed his first leading role in The Invisible, a remake of the Swedish film Den Osynlige.

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Justin Chatwin plays Wilson, the protagonist's co-worker, "with lots of nervous energy, and generates laughs along the way" according to one critic.

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Justin Chatwin starred opposite Anton Yelchin and Eva Amurri in the coming-of-age drama Middle of Nowhere directed by John Stockwell, which premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival, followed by a straight-to-DVD release two years later.

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In 2009, Justin Chatwin portrayed Goku in Dragonball Evolution, the first big-screen adaptation of the popular Japanese Dragon Ball manga by Akira Toriyama.

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Justin Chatwin described the role as the most physically demanding he had ever played, as he had to train in martial arts and adopt a strict diet with no sugar and carbohydrates.

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In December 2009, Chatwin was filming the Showtime pilot Shameless, an adaptation of Paul Abbott's British series of the same name, starring alongside William H Macy and Emmy Rossum.

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Justin Chatwin made a brief appearance in the fourth season finale, and returned in the fifth season as a special guest star.

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In 2011, Justin Chatwin starred alongside Patrick Huard and Paul Doucet in the canadian film Funkytown.

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Justin Chatwin plays Tino DeiFiori, a young italian dancer who is hiding a secret.

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Justin Chatwin was drawn to the part because he "haven't danced a day" in his life: "I'm the guy who sits in the corner at the club and doesn't move".

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In 2013, Justin Chatwin guest-starred in the fourth season of The Listener, and appeared in Isolated, a documentary narrated and executive produced by Ryan Phillippe about a group of surfers in search of untouched waves.

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Alongside Jane Levy and Peter Stormare, Justin Chatwin subsequently appeared as rock and roll star Bobby Shore in the Jeffrey St Jules-directed sci-fi musical set in the '60s Bang Bang Baby.

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Justin Chatwin's character was based on Vanilla Ice, Justin Bieber and Elvis Presley.

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In 2015, Justin Chatwin portrayed a troubled man desperate to retrieve his bike in the short film The Cycle, and recorded the audio version of Celeritas, a screenplay who featured on 2014 Black List.

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Justin Chatwin starred as a detective tracking down a mysterious race of creatures in the TNT pilot Breed, and that year, he secured a recurring role in the third season of Orphan Black, playing opposite Tatiana Maslany and Kristian Bruun.

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Justin Chatwin then guest-starred on BBC's Doctor Who as superhero The Ghost and his alter ego Grant Gordon in the show's 2016 Christmas special "The Return of Doctor Mysterio".

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Justin Chatwin was then cast opposite Pierce Brosnan in the allegorical thriller Urge, where he starred as an artist unaffected by the title drug which is said to remove your inhibitions.

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In preparation for his role, Justin Chatwin studied animal movement with Jean-Louis Rodrigue and Kristof Konrad, in order to embody the specific mannerisms and behavior.

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Justin Chatwin then portrayed modern-day cowboy Hugh Jay Linder in Blake Robbins' western noir The Scent of Rain and Lightning, based on the 2010 novel of the same name by Nancy Pickard.

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Justin Chatwin had a role in the independent drama We Don't Belong Here, sharing the screen with Riley Keough and Anton Yelchin.

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Justin Chatwin later headlined Crackle's original sci-fi movie In the Cloud, in which he plays a computer scientist.

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Justin Chatwin featured as a hedonistic bartender named Andy in the ensemble coming-of-age drama Summer Night, directed by Joseph Cross in his directorial debut.

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From 2019 to 2021, over the course of two seasons, Justin Chatwin played scientist Erik Wallace in the Netflix television series Another Life.

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Justin Chatwin co-starred opposite Diego Boneta, Alexandra Daddario and Travis Fimmel in the romantic crime film Die in a Gunfight, which has been described as a modern-day version of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

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Justin Chatwin plays an unscrupulous stalker loosely based on Tybalt and Count Paris.

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In 2022, Justin Chatwin starred as a conflicted police officer in the period drama film The Walk.

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Justin Chatwin portrayed Jack Reagan, the father of United States President Ronald Reagan in Sean McNamara's biopic Reagan.

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Justin Chatwin said many times that his biggest passion is motorcycles.

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Justin Chatwin owns a Harley-Davidson Night Train which he named Charlie Crowe.

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In 2014, Justin Chatwin embarked on a trip across Europe with producer Ford Smith and actor Martin Henderson, testing the new Ducati motorcycles.

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In 2017, Justin Chatwin was invited at the inaugural edition of Moto Beach Classic Festival in Southern California.

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Justin Chatwin took part at the BMX Boxer Cup challenge against former professional freestyle motocross racer Andy Bell, custom builder Maxwell Hazan and seasoned photographer Preston Burroughs.

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Justin Chatwin is part of WLF Enduro, a community of people from different backgrounds of work, such as teachers, salesmen or construction workers, brought together to ride 200 miles in two days every year, throughout Southern California.

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Justin Chatwin stated that he has always been inspired by Bruce Justin Chatwin, his favorite travel writer.

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In 2011, Justin Chatwin took part on a charitable motorcycle ride for amfAR, an American foundation for AIDS research, and was one of the celebrities who attended "Stand Up To Cancer", a special event and auction established in order to raise money in the fight against cancer, hosted by Jaime King and Nicky Hilton Rothschild.

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In 2013, Justin Chatwin joined Beau Garrett, Mark Foster and Kenna on the new edition of Summit on the Summit project, climbing Kilimanjaro.

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Justin Chatwin was one of the celebrities who protested against the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.

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In 2017, Justin Chatwin teamed up for a special ride with Vancouver-based motorcycle company "Lords of Gastown", and charitable organization "Waves for Water", which is dedicated to provide clean water for everyone who needs it.

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Justin Chatwin is one of the Canadian ambassadors for Operation Smile.