Personal Info
Birth date
1976-11-28 (48 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Also known as
Ryan Christian Kwanten
라이언 콴튼
萊恩·昆坦
رایان کوانتن
Ryan Kwanten
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ryan Kwanten, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
7.9
Overview:
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.Home and Away
6.292
Overview:
Home and Away is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales, and follows the personal and professional lives of the people living in the area. The show initially focused on the Fletcher family, Pippa and Tom Fletcher and their five foster children Frank Morgan, Carly Morris, Steven Matheson, Lynn Davenport and Sally Keating, who would go on to become one of the show's longest-running characters. The show also originally and currently focuses on the Stewart family. During the early 2000s, the central storylines focused on the Sutherlands and later, the Hunters. Home and Away had proved popular when it premiered in 1988 and had risen to become a hit in Australia, and after only a few weeks, the show tackled its first major and disturbing storyline, the rape of Carly Morris; it was one of the first shows to feature such storylines during the early timeslot. H&A has tackled many adult-themed and controversial storylines; something rarely found in its restricted timeslot.Water Rats
6.6
Overview:
Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001.True Blood
7.617
Overview:
Thanks to a Japanese scientist's invention of synthetic blood, vampires have progressed overnight from legendary monsters to fellow citizens. And while humans have been safely removed from the menu, many remain apprehensive about these creatures "coming out of the coffin." Religious leaders, government officials, and vampire fundamentalists around the world have chosen their sides. But in the small Louisiana town of Bon Temps, the jury is still out.New Girl
7.348
Overview:
Jessica Day is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. Goofy, positive, vulnerable and honest to a fault, Jess has faith in people, even when she shouldn't. Although she's dorky and awkward, she's comfortable in her own skin. More prone to friendships with women, she's not used to hanging with the boys—especially at home.The Eric Andre Show
7.9
Overview:
A comedic talk show from an alternate reality featuring unstable hosts, a variety of celebrities—both real and fake—and unusual studio action.Tru Calling
7.3
Overview:
A university graduate working in the city morgue is able to repeat the same day over again to prevent murders or other disasters.Summerland
6.7
Overview:
Bradin, Nikki and Derrick are 3 kids from an average normal Kansas household. Their whole life is thrown upside-down when their parents are tragically killed in a car accident. Ava Gregory (their aunt) gets custody of her niece and nephews and they move into her Californian home (in Summerland). Ava, a struggling clothes designer, lives with her best friend and business partner, Susannah Rexford, her friend, an ex- pro.surfer, Jay Robertson and her ex-boyfriend, real estate agent, Johnny Durrant. All four of them are highly unequipped to handle children and are not use to including them in their everyday lives.Creepshow
7.46
Overview:
A young boy's horror comic book comes to life in this anthology series of terrifying tales.The Oath
6.2
Overview:
Explore a gang world we've never seen before: gangs that are made up of the very men and women sworn to uphold the law – cops. Only select officers make the cut, but once inside, gang members will do what they must to protect each other from enemies inside and outside their ranks.Echo Point
4
Overview:
Echo Point was an Australian television soap opera produced by Southern Star Group for Network Ten on 1 June 1995 until 1 December 1995. The series was devised as an attempt by the Ten Network to rival the opposition soap Home and Away on the Seven Network. The series focused on several families and teenagers in a coastal community, and a key on-going storyline concerned renewed interest in a long-unsolved local murder mystery. Echo Point originally aired at 7:00pm weeknights to low ratings and the series was cancelled after a little over 100 episodes had been produced. The final episodes were aired in a late night 11.30pm slot. The only purchaser of the series in the UK was Central Television, the only member of the ITV network to screen it. Central screened the series at 1315-1345 in the summer of 1998 following the conclusion of A Country Practice. TV3 in New Zealand picked up the series for just a few weeks in 1996 but then later cancelled, the show featured former Shortland Street actor Martin Henderson.The Handler
6.4
Overview:
The Handler is a crime series created by Canadian writer-producer Chris Haddock, airing in the United States on CBS in the 2003-04 season. The show starred Joe Pantoliano as Joe Renato, an FBI agent assigned to train and handle young undercover officers in the FBI. Other cast members included Hill Harper, Anna Belknap, Lola Glaudini, and Tanya Wright. Belknap and Harper would reunite as costars on the drama CSI: New York beginning in 2005.Kindred
6.5
Overview:
A young aspiring writer discovers secrets about her family's past when she finds herself mysteriously being pulled back and forth in time to a 19th century plantation.2067
5.362
Overview:
A lowly utility worker is called to the future by a mysterious radio signal, he must leave his dying wife to embark on a journey that will force him to face his deepest fears in an attempt to change the fabric of reality and save humankind from its greatest environmental crisis yet.Dead Silence
6.449
Overview:
Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair, where Shaw used to perform and is buried. But Jamie is in for more than he expected.Apollo Gauntlet
7.1
Overview:
Here comes Apollo Gauntlet, Fights evil even when it's not there. Here comes Apollo Gauntlet, Fighting for goodness in everyone. Put on your magic Gauntlets, Wait for the proper time. You fight the evil, Even though it's everywhere, It's everywhere. Here Comes Apollo Gauntlet.Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
6.813
Overview:
When a young owl is abducted by an evil Owl army, he must escape with new-found friends and seek the legendary Guardians to stop the menace.The Hurricane Heist
5.681
Overview:
Thieves attempt a massive heist against the U.S. Treasury as a Category 5 hurricane approaches one of its Mint facilities.Flight 7500
4.901
Overview:
Flight 7500 departs Los Angeles International Airport bound for Tokyo. As the overnight flight makes its way over the Pacific Ocean during its ten-hour course, the passengers encounter what appears to be a supernatural force in the cabin.Flicka
6.9
Overview:
Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. The headstrong 16 year old then sets her mind to tame a mustang and prove to her father she can run the ranch. But when tragedy happens, it will take all the love and strength the family can muster to restore hope.Section 8
6.22
Overview:
After avenging the murder of his family, a former soldier is sprung from prison and recruited by a shadowy government agency.Northmen: A Viking Saga
5.4
Overview:
A band of Vikings cross enemy lines and a panicked race begins. The losers will pay with their lives.Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
6
Overview:
The true story of the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken, the grandson of the founder of the Heineken brewery, and his driver. They were released after a ransom of 35 million Dutch guilders was paid.Kill Chain
5.159
Overview:
A hotel room shootout between two assassins kicks off a long night where bodies fall like dominoes, as we follow a chain of crooked cops, gangsters, hitmen, a femme Fatale and an ex-mercenary through a relay of murder, betrayal, revenge and redemption.Primitive War
NYR
Overview:
Vietnam. 1968. A recon unit known as Vulture Squad is sent to an isolated jungle valley to uncover the fate of a missing Green Beret platoon. They soon discover they are not alone.Blinky Bill the Movie
5.526
Overview:
Blinky Bill is a little koala with a big imagination. An adventurer at heart, he dreams of leaving the little town of Green Patch and following in his missing father’s footsteps. When Blinky discovers a mysterious marker that hints at his Dad’s whereabouts, he embarks on a journey that takes him beyond the boundary of Green Patch and into the wild and dangerous Outback.Loveland
4.731
Overview:
In an uncharted future, two hardened souls meet and confront each other with the things they have done and what they have become.Acting
TBADevil Inside as Unknown
TBASeven Snipers as Unknown
2025Primitive War as Unknown
2023The Portrait as Alex
2023Head Count as Sawyer
2022Kindred (8 Episodes) as Thomas Weylin
2022Section 8 as Jake Atherton
2022Glorious as Wes
2022Loveland as Jack
2021Them (10 Episodes) as George Bell
20202067 as Jude Mathers
2020Kill Chain as Ericson
2019Creepshow (1 Episode) as Alex (segment "The Right Snuff")
2018Supercon as Matt Wheeler
2018The Oath (18 Episodes) as Steve Hammond
2018The Hurricane Heist as Breeze
2017Apollo Gauntlet (6 Episodes) as Superknife
2016Who Gets the Dog? as Clay Lonnergan
2015Edge as Harknett
2015Blunt Force Trauma as John
2015Blinky Bill the Movie as Blinky Bill (voice)
2015Kidnapping Mr. Heineken as Jan 'Cat' Boellard
2014Northmen: A Viking Saga as Conall
2014Rio, I Love You as Jai Arnott (segment "Acho que Estou Apaixonado")
2014True Blood. A Farewell to Bon Temps as Self
2014Flight 7500 as Brad Martin
2014Reach Me as Jack Burns
2013The Right Kind of Wrong as Leo Palamino
2013Mystery Road as Pete Barry; William Smith
2013Truth in Journalism as Eddie Brock / Venom
2013Knights of Badassdom as Joe
2012Not Suitable For Children as Jonah
2012The Eric Andre Show (1 Episode) as Self
2011New Girl (1 Episode) as Oliver
2011Griff the Invisible as Griff
2010Red Hill as Shane Cooper
2010Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole as Kludd (voice)
2010Don't Fade Away as Jackson White
2008True Blood (80 Episodes) as Jason Stackhouse
2007The Making of Dead Silence as Self
2007Dead Silence as Jamie Ashen
2006Flicka as Howard McLaughlin
2005America Brown as America 'Ricky' Brown
2004Summerland (26 Episodes) as Jay Robertson
2003Tru Calling (1 Episode) as Jake Voight
2003The Handler (1 Episode) as Unknown
2003Liquid Bridge as Nick McCallum
2002The Junction Boys as Claude Gearheart
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1 Episode) as Dominic Pruitt
1996Water Rats (1 Episode) as Nipper
1995Echo Point (5 Episodes) as Nathan Potter
1994Signal One as Kid
1988Home and Away (25 Episodes) as Vinnie Patterson
Production
2022Glorious ... Executive Producer