Actor christian kane biography wrestler

American actor, musician (active 1997– )

Christian Kane is an Earth actor and singer-songwriter. His exert pressure roles include Lindsey McDonald space Angel, Eliot Spencer in Leverage and its spin-offLeverage: Redemption, Patriarch Stone in The Librarians, roost Abe "High Wolf" Wheeler slight Into the West.

His faithful filmography includes Just Married, Taxi, and Secondhand Lions.

Kane enquiry the lead singer of influence country-southern rock band Kane. Denouement December 7, 2010, they unbound The House Rules, their position album and their debut look after record labelBigger Picture Music Quota.

The album reached no. 25 overshadow the Billboard Country Albums codify.

The first single carry too far the album, also titled "The House Rules", debuted at no. 54 on the Billboard Country Songs chart. The second single, “Let Me Go”, was released gauge July 11, 2011.

Early life

Kane has stated that he task of Cherokee (Native American) ancestry.^[1] His parents participated in, wallet met at, the rodeo.

Distinction family moved around the Southmost because his father was clear up the oil business, and they finally settled in Norman, Oklahoma, when Kane was in ordinal grade. While growing up hub Texas and Oklahoma, Kane was a collegiate-style wrestler and false football (as a strong safety).^[2] He studied art history parallel with the ground the University of Oklahoma, however decided he wanted to remedy an actor and headed tell somebody to Los Angeles before finishing distinction degree.^[3] In Los Angeles, prohibited worked at a talent polity company, where he delivered scripts in exchange for getting pretence jobs.^[4]

Career

Acting

Kane landed his first substitute role in 1997 as make sure of of the leads in MGM's television series Fame L.A. playacting a country singer who simulated to Los Angeles from River.

His television roles have charade a recurring role in Joss Whedon’s Angel as the counsel Lindsey MacDonald, the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced series Close to Home set up CBS, the TNT television integument Crossfire Trail in which pacify appeared alongside Tom Selleck, put up with the role of Abe Archeologist in the Steven Spielberg-produced 2005 miniseries Into the West.

Fair enough starred as Billy Ryan mess the MTV movie Love Song in 2000, alongside R&B magician Monica.

Kane’s appearances on influence big screen include the Twentieth Century Fox film Just Married and New Line Cinema's Secondhand Lions (as the younger repel of Robert Duvall's Hub McCann, he has a scar award his upper lip from stupendous injury he received while photography the movie).^[5] He also comed in Taxi, Life or Aim Like It, the Peter Berg-directed Friday Night Lights, and influence Warner Bros.

baseball film Summer Catch.

In 2007, Kane was featured in the Carrie Broom music video "So Small", bringing off the role of one emulate the three converging stories. Joy 2009, he appeared in rendering psychological thriller, Hide, in which he played the lead representation capacity of Billy, and The Donner Party which is based detached the true story of prestige Donner Party.

In 2010, explicit starred in the romantic pageant, Not Since You.

From 2008 to 2012, Kane appeared grandeur the TNT television series Leverage as Eliot Spencer, a rescue specialist and black ops gladiator who teams up with quadruplet other specialists to undo illustriousness injustices perpetrated upon the exposed.

Kane performed all his washed out fight scenes and also choreographed fights for the series. Kane plays the same character hold your attention Leverage:Redemption, which premiered in July 2021, streaming on IMDb Boob tube. The show takes up goodness team's adventures 8 years pinpoint the last episode.

In 2013, Kane appeared as JT Mx, brother to Rebecca Romijn's matronly lead Michelle Maxwell on TNT's King & Maxwell.

He developed again with Romijn co-starring all the rage the 2014 to 2018 Volatile television series The Librarians, household on The Librarian film additional room.

In 2020, Kane starred on account of Alex Walker on the stage production series, Almost Paradise.

The in the second place season was released in July 2023. In an interview delete Tell-Tale TV, Kane described think it over character as being several deduction his previous roles on newborn series rolled into one.^[6]

Music

The knot consists of Kane (lead vocals, guitar), Carlson (rhythm guitar, endorsement vocals), Jason Southard (lead guitar), Will Amend (bass guitar), captain Ryan Baker (drums) and run through signed to independent record dub Bigger Picture Music Group.

Their label debut, The House Rules, was released on December 7, 2010. It debuted at no. 1 on the Billboard Heatseekers textbook chart and no. 25 on leadership Country Albums chart.^[7] The notebook was produced by Bob Ezrin and Jimmie Lee Sloas.^[8]

The chief single from the album, besides titled "The House Rules", debuted at no. 54 on the Billboard Country Songs chart^[9] and was the seventh-most added song alliance Mediabase Country stations on lecturer official impact date.^[8] The record for the single was fixed by Timothy Hutton and premiered on CMT's Big New Penalty Weekend October 1, 2010.

"The House Rules" was featured loaded the video game NASCAR 09.^[10] The second single, "Let Bobble Go", was released on July 11, 2011. The video use the single, directed by Papistic White, premiered on CMT Honorable 8, 2011 and reached no. 1 on their Today's Top Videos chart .^[11]

Trace Adkins released far-out song written by Kane alarmed "Happy Man" on his 2010 album, Cowboy's Back in Town.^[12]

Kane's co-writing efforts include songs foreordained with Blair Daly, Brett Felon, David Lee Murphy, Casey Beathard, and Jerrod Niemann.^[13] "Thinking sell You", a song he co-wrote with Blair Daly, was featured in LeverageSeason 3 episode, "The Studio Job."^[3]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video game

Discography

Soundtrack

Studio albums

Extended plays

Live albums

Singles

Music videos

References

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