Biography
The son of esteemed dramatic vocal trainer Kristin Linklater, the young performer was raised among the theater community, taking supporting roles in Shakespeare & Company productions beginning from age nine and making his professional starring debut playing Tom Sawyer in a 1996 production of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" at the Actors Theatre of Louisville [Kentucky]. He went on to amass credits in The Acting Company's 1998 productions …
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Career Milestones
| Started acting in supporting roles with the Shakespeare & Company theater group at age nine | ||
1996 | Made professional debut playing Tom Sawyer in the Actor's Theatre of Louisville's production of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" | |
1998 | Featured in The Acting Company's anthology of plays "Love's Fire," staged in London and NYC | |
1998 | Played Romeo in The Acting Company's production of "Romeo and Juliet" | |
1998 | Played the gravedigger lover of an heiress in the play "Hydriotaphia, or The Death of Dr Browne" | |
1999 | Featured as Lysander in Peter Hall's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," also at the Ahmanson Theater | |
1999 | Landed starring role as the "sensitive" son of a wildly dysfunctional family in the off-Broadway production "The Chemistry of Change" | |
1999 | Played the doomed Claudio in Los Angeles' Center Theater Group's production of Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure," staged at the Ahmanson Theater | |
1999 | Portrayed a sexually-charged Laertes in New York Shakespeare Festival production of "Hamlet" at the Joseph Papp Public Theater | |
2000 | Starred in "Groove" as a raver's bookish brother who finds romance at an underground party | |
2000 | TV series debut, playing a medical resident on the ABC drama series "Gideon's Crossing" | |
2001 | Acted on stage opposite Alicia Goranson in "Good Thing," performed at New York Stage and Film at Vassar College; reprised role off-Broadway | |
2002 | Portrayed journalist Richard Roth in "Live from Baghdad" (HBO) | |
2004 | Landed recurring role on "American Dreams" (NBC) | |
2005 | Appeared in the superhero feature "Fantastic Four" | |
2006 | Co-starred with Julia Louis-Dreyfus on the CBS comedy series "The New Adventures of Old Christine" | |
2012 | Acted in the sci-fi action feature "Battleship" | |
2012 | Co-starred with Greta Gerwig in the comedy "Lola Versus" | |