Rider King Strong was born on December 11,1979 and is an American actor, producer, director, and screenwriter.
26 Facts About Rider Strong
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Rider Strong is best known for starring as Shawn Hunter on the ABC sitcom Boy Meets World, which he reprised in its sequel series Girl Meets World.
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Rider Strong headlined the cult Cabin Fever and co-wrote and directed the independent film Irish Twins with his brother Shiloh.
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Rider Strong provided the voices of Brick Flagg in Kim Possible and Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama, and Tom Lucitor in Star vs the Forces of Evil.
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In 2015, Strong was honored with the Young Artist Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Rider Strong was born in San Francisco, California, the second of two boys born to Lin, a teacher and nutritionist, and King Arthur Rider Strong, a firefighter, who are both originally from Pennsylvania.
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Rider Strong graduated from Nonesuch School in Sebastopol, California in 1998.
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Rider Strong attended morning classes at Occidental College while still filming for Boy Meets World, accumulating a year's worth of credit before the series ended.
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Rider Strong completed his Master of Fine Arts in fiction and literature in June 2009 at Bennington College.
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Rider Strong began his acting career at the age of nine, when he starred as Gavroche in the San Francisco production of Les Miserables, alongside Larisa Oleynik as Young Cosette.
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Rider Strong found it difficult coping with his newfound fame, citing at least one breakdown at 15 when he was on a "Sail With the Stars" charity cruise.
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However, in a later interview, Rider Strong stated that he was inconsiderate with his power, having previously set up weekly six hour roundtrip commutes back to Sonoma with his mother and brother.
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Rider Strong permanently moved to Los Angeles at 16 and later attended morning classes at Occidental College.
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Rider Strong took one semester off to star as Paul in the indie horror film Cabin Fever, directed by Eli Roth.
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Rider Strong took another semester off to star in a Broadway production of The Graduate, opposite Jerry Hall as Mrs Robinson.
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That same year, Rider Strong recorded a reading for the audio version of the Anthony Kiedis biography Scar Tissue.
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Rider Strong had a brief cameo appearance in 2009's Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever, the sequel to Cabin Fever.
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In 2010, Rider Strong starred in the science fiction-thriller film Darkening Sky alongside Ezra Buzzington, Charley Rossman, Sally Berman, Daniel Kirschner, and LaShan Anderson under the direction of Victor Bornia.
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Rider Strong appeared in Your Lucky Day which premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival that same year.
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In late 2012, Rider Strong declined an offer to reprise his role as Shawn Hunter in the spinoff, Girl Meets World.
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In June 2013, a Boy Meets World reunion was held with Rider Strong attending along with many of his former cast members.
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Rider Strong managed to leverage his reprisal of Shawn on the condition that he and his brother would get to direct a few episodes.
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Rider Strong has hosted the Boy Meets World rewatch podcast Pod Meets World with Danielle Fishel and Will Friedle since 2022.
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Rider Strong began dating actress Alexandra Barreto after they met while filming the 2006 television series Pepper Dennis.
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The couple have one son, Indigo "Indy" Barreto Rider Strong, born in December 2014.
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In early 2009, Rider Strong narrated the audiobook of The Obama Revolution by Alan Kennedy-Shaffer.