1. Ryan Christian Kwanten was born on 28 November 1976 and is an Australian actor and producer.
14 Facts About Ryan Kwanten
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Ryan Kwanten played Vinnie Patterson from 1997 to 2002 in the Australian soap opera Home and Away.
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Ryan Kwanten's brothers are Mitchell, a musician, and Lloyd, a doctor.
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Ryan Kwanten attended St Paul's Catholic College in Manly and later earned a degree in commerce from The University of Sydney.
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Ryan Kwanten began acting on the television shows A Country Practice, Hey Dad.
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Ryan Kwanten eventually chose to leave the series in 2002, shortly after his character married and became a father.
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Ryan Kwanten had previously guest starred on the serial as Robbie Taylor in 1994.
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Ryan Kwanten appeared in the films Flicka, with Maria Bello, Alison Lohman and Tim McGraw, and Dead Silence, a horror film in which he played the leading role, Jamie Ashen.
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In 2010, Ryan 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.
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Ryan 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.
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Ryan Kwanten won a lead role in the 2013 Joe Lynch comedy-horror film Knights of Badassdom along with Steve Zahn, Summer Glau and Peter Dinklage.
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In 2013, Ryan 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.
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In 2015, Ryan 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.
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In 2019, Ryan 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.