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Vincent Kartheiser [edit]
Birth name: Vincent Paul Kartheiser
Nickname: Vinnie
Height: 5'11" (1.80 m)
Date of birth(location):5 May 1979. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Trivia:
Takes fencing lessons
4 sisters and one brother
Dated Rachael Leigh Cook
Enjoys rock climbing
Trained in martial arts in preparation for the part of Connor on TV show 'Angel'.
Failed the 9th grade.
Enjoys reading and learning. His favorite writers are Dostoevsky, Edgar Allan Poe and Shakespeare.
Was named after Vincent Van Gogh and grew up surrounded by his work.
Majored in history at UCLA.
Has listed Monica Keena his "all time" favorite actress.
Personal quotes:
"I was such a nerd when I was younger and I may look different now and girls may like me, but I still feel like that nerd."
"I think it's healthy to hate. I think it's extremely healthy, because without hate, you cannot see love. Without red, there wouldn't be any green. That's not a very good metaphor but, you know, it's the same."
"I'm with my mom so much that it's like if we go out to eat somewhere, we probably say ten sentences to each other. We're like an old couple. There's nothing that we have to say. It's okay to sit there and just be."
Has been in:
Untamed Heart (1993) .... Orphan boy
Heaven Sent (1994) .... Eddie Chandler
Little Big League (1994) .... James
The Indian in the Cupboard (1995) .... Gillon
Alaska (1996) .... Sean Barnes
Another Day in Paradise (1997) .... Bobbie
Masterminds (1997) .... Oswald 'Ozzie' Paxton
Strike! (1998) .... Snake - Flat Critter
"ER"- Truth & Consequences(1999) TV Episode....Jesse Keenan
Ricky 6 (2000) .... Ricky Cowen
Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (2000) .... Vincent
Preston Tylk (2000) .... Dillon
Luckytown (2000) .... Colonel
The Unsaid (2001) .... Thomas Caffey
Dandelion (2004) .... Mason Mullich
"Angel" .... Connor
Shakespeare's Sonnets (2005) .... Sebastian
Alpha Dog (2006) .... Pick Giamo
Barstool Words (2006) .... Craig Blackshear
Mad Men (2007) (TV) (post-production) .... Pete Campbell
(From IMDB.com)
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A native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Vincent Kartheiser made a name for himself in the late '90s by choosing unlikely fare for an actor who, at the time, had just earned the right to drink legally. Making his screen debut in a bit role in the 1993 tearjerker Untamed Heart, opposite Marisa Tomei and Christian Slater, the blue-eyed, brown-haired Kartheiser subsequently found himself being cast in family fare, most memorably the action-adventure drama Alaska, in which he starred opposite Thora Birch and Charlton Heston (whose son directed the film). The film led to the leading role in the kiddie tech thriller Masterminds, which featured the young actor as a whiz kid who takes on an evil private-school headmaster, played by Patrick Stewart. Kartheiser's next role, however, would be his most defining in terms of establishing his range and presence. Tapped to play Bobby, a drug-addled, homeless street urchin in Larry Clark's Another Day in Paradise, a gritty look at the lives of a pseudo-family immersed in crime, Kartheiser rose to the challenge with a fearless, powerful performance, acting with such established pros as James Woods and Melanie Griffith. The film earned many accolades for the young actor, who then appeared in Strike! (later retitled All I Wanna Do), a barely released comedy set in a 1960s female boarding school. The film featured contemporaries Kirsten Dunst, Gaby Hoffmann, and Monica Keena, the last of whom was co-star of Kartheiser's next project, Crime and Punishment in Suburbia.
Screened at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival, Crime and Punishment in Suburbia was a moody, updated take on Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, set in a modern high school. Kartheiser played Vincent, a reticent teenager obsessed with a girl (Keena) who is slowly going over the edge. The film furthered his reputation as a daring performer uninterested in taking the safe route, a path many actors of Kartheiser's generation followed for higher visibility. After a few little-seen films, Kartheiser next turned up on the supernatural drama series Angel in 2002. In a truly original role, he played Connor, the miraculous human son of vampires Darla (Julie Benz) and the titular Angel (David Boreanaz). Thanks to being reared in an alternate hell dimension, Connor had more than a few chips on his shoulder upon his return to L.A.; his adolescent angst and rebellion was one of the main focuses of the series' fourth season. Returning to film work, Kartheiser went on to star in the well-received coming-of-age drama Dandelion, which was shown at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.
Vincent also smokes.
(From En.Wikipedia.org)
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