40 Facts About Travis Fimmel

Travis Fimmel is known for his role as Ragnar Lothbrok in the History Channel television series Vikings.

Travis Fimmel starred in HBO science fiction series' Raised by Wolves as Marcus and in Dune: Prophecy as Desmond Hart.

Travis Fimmel was accepted into RMIT for an architecture course, but later deferred to travel abroad.

Travis Fimmel was spotted working out at a gym in the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn by the flatmate of Matthew Anderson, a talent scout for the Chadwick Models agency.

Travis Fimmel headed to the United States and was signed on the spot with agency LA Models in 2002 after walking into their office broke and barefoot.

Travis Fimmel fronted CK's Crave men's fragrance campaign and modelled the brand's famous underwear.

Travis Fimmel appeared on multiple magazine covers, including Esquire, Rogue, Empire, At Large, Good Weekend, Numero Homme, and America's TV Guide.

Travis Fimmel turned down an offer from Australia's Seven Network to be a guest judge on the TV series Make Me a Supermodel in 2012.

Travis Fimmel began his acting career by appearing in the music videos for Janet Jackson's song "Someone to Call My Lover" and "I'm Real" by Jennifer Lopez, both in 2001.

Travis Fimmel studied under Ivana Chubbuck, the Hollywood acting coach of movie stars Brad Pitt and Jared Leto.

Travis Fimmel took two years to pluck up the courage to audition for his first role, saying "half of acting is overcoming your fears [and] letting yourself be vulnerable in front of people".

Travis Fimmel landed the title lead in The WB series Tarzan in 2003, described by CNN as one of the "five hottest things happening in entertainment right now", in which he did most of his own stunts.

Travis Fimmel depicted a talented classical pianist in Ivory, an independent film that was an Official Selection in the 2010 Montreal World Film Festival and the Strasbourg International Film Festival.

Travis Fimmel played Helweg, a prison guard, in the 2010 film The Experiment, in a role reportedly offered to Elijah Wood, who pulled out of shooting for reasons unknown.

Travis Fimmel played rookie undercover FBI agent Ellis Dove partnered with a hardened veteran cop, Swayze's Charles Barker.

Travis Fimmel played fugitive Mason Boyle in two episodes of NBC's 2010 action-adventure Chase, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.

Travis Fimmel appeared in FX's TV pilot crime drama Outlaw Country in 2011 with Luke Grimes.

Travis Fimmel played the lead in 2012's Harodim with Peter Fonda as a former intelligence officer trained in black ops tracking down the world's most wanted terrorist, who is compromised by his own chain of command.

Travis Fimmel co-starred with Billy Bob Thornton and Eva Longoria in the 2012 redneck Southern comedy flick The Baytown Outlaws, playing one of the three hapless Oodie brothers who bites off more than he can chew when he agrees to help a woman get her godson back from her deadbeat ex-husband.

Travis Fimmel was signed as the lead character for four seasons in the critically acclaimed drama television series Vikings, co-starring Alexander Ludwig, Katheryn Winnick, Gabriel Byrne, Gustaf Skarsgard, and Linus Roache.

Travis Fimmel starred as military commander Anduin Lothar in Warcraft in 2016, a live-action film adaptation of the Warcraft video game franchise.

Travis Fimmel was named as the Actor of the Year in GQ Australias 2017 Men of the Year Awards.

Travis Fimmel was the lead actor in Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan, playing the role of Major Harry Smith who led soldiers under his command against the Viet Cong during the Battle of Long Tan in the Vietnam War.

In 2020, Travis Fimmel featured as a TV presenter in Here Are the Young Men, which was adapted from a novel about three Dublin high school graduates whose epic binge to mark the end of an era is blighted by catastrophe.

Travis Fimmel played a genius, reclusive and kooky inventor in the science fiction, neo-noir film Zone 414.

Travis Fimmel appeared in indie drama Delia's Gone, co-starring Marisa Tomei, based on a short story about a black man with an intellectual disability who is accused of his sister's murder and embarks on a journey to clear his name and find out who's responsible.

In One Way, Travis Fimmel plays a mysterious passenger who meets a lifelong criminal played by Colson Baker, aka Machine Gun Kelly, who has stolen from the biggest mob boss in town and boards a bus to flee.

Travis Fimmel appeared in Fool's Paradise, a comedy by Charlie Day about a fool for love who becomes an accidental celebrity only to lose it all.

Travis Fimmel plays cold-case detective in the Stan Original mini-series Black Snow.

In March 2024, Black Snow was renewed for a second series with Travis Fimmel reprising the role.

Season 2 aired from 1 January 2025 with Travis Fimmel directing an episode.

Travis Fimmel was cast in Stan's satirical series Caught with Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Matthew Fox, Lincoln Younes, and real-life Channel 9 TV presenters Karl Stefanovic and Ally Langdon.

Travis Fimmel co-starred with Gerard Butler in the 2023 CIA thriller Kandahar, with a script written by a former military intelligence officer and based on his real-life experiences in Afghanistan.

Travis Fimmel was cast in the western film Rust, but production was temporarily suspended in New Mexico when a prop gun with a live bullet allegedly fired by co-star Alec Baldwin killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and led to involuntary manslaughter charges.

Travis Fimmel plays bounty hunter Fenton "Preacher" Lang who joins a US Marshal in pursuit of Baldwin's character, outlaw Harland Rust.

Travis Fimmel plays mysterious soldier Desmond Hart in the 2024 TV series Dune: Prophecy.

Travis Fimmel is known for his preference for going barefoot, a trait incorporated into his character Anduin Lothar in Warcraft.

Travis Fimmel played a celebrity cricket match in the 2009 Australia vs England Hollywood Ashes with fellow Australian actors Jesse Spencer from House, Cameron Daddo, celebrity chef Curtis Stone, INXS bass guitarist Garry Gary Beers and cricket fast bowler Michael Kasprowicz.

Travis Fimmel has expressed a desire to return to farm life in Australia once he is finished with Hollywood.

In 2022, Travis Fimmel founded his own beer brand Travla with the winner of the fourth series of MasterChef Australia, Andy Allen, and ex Essendon Football Club CEO Xavier Campbell as executive director and one of the CEOs.