Ryan Kwanten

Born: 1976-11-28, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Biography

Ryan Christian Kwanten (born 28 November 1976) is an Australian actor and producer. He played Vinnie Patterson from 1997 to 2002 in the Australian soap opera Home and Away. After his stint ended, he joined the American teen drama series Summerland, portraying Jay Robertson. From 2008 to 2014, he played Jason Stackhouse in True Blood. From 2018 to 2019 he produced and starred in the crime drama series The Oath as Steve Hammond. In 2021, he starred in season one of the horror drama anthology series Them as George Bell. In 2022, he portrayed Thomas Weylin in Kindred, a series adaptation based on Octavia E. Butler's celebrated 1979 novel of the same name.

Filmography

• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
• Home and Away (1988)
• New Girl (2011)
• Seven Snipers (2026)
• Tru Calling (2003)
• Water Rats (1996)
• Them (2021)
• Primitive War (2025)
• Spellbinder (1995)
• Dead Silence (2007)
• The Oath (2018)
• Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)
• Summerland (2004)
• The Hurricane Heist (2018)
• Kindred (2022)
• 2067 (2020)
• Northmen: A Viking Saga (2014)
• Glorious (2022)
• Kill Chain (2020)
• Kidnapping Mr. Heineken (2015)
• Section 8 (2022)
• Flight 7500 (2014)
• Blinky Bill the Movie (2015)
• Knights of Badassdom (2014)
• Flicka (2006)
• Who Gets the Dog? (2016)
• The Portrait (2023)
• Blunt Force Trauma (2015)
• Rio, Eu Te Amo (2014)
• Dead Howling (2026)