David Anders

David Anders

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Date of birth

March 11th, 1981

Place of birth

Grants Pass, Oregon, US

Role on Alias

Julian Sark

David Anders played Julian Sark in Seasons 1-5 of Alias.

Biography

Early life

Anders was born in Grants Pass, Oregon, to parents Dr. Tony and Jeri Holt. Anders is the youngest of four children. He has three older siblings: a biological brother (Arik), an adopted brother (Jason), and an adopted sister (Maili).

Anders began acting in school plays at a young age but spent most of high school playing sports such as basketball and tennis. When he was a senior in high school, at 17, he played Philip the Apostle in a regional theater production of Jesus Christ Superstar. When he was 18 Anders won the part of George in his high school's production of Our Town, following that, he went on to portray Freddy Eynsford-Hill in a production of My Fair Lady.

Career

After moving to Los Angeles, he took the stage name of David Anders due to another actor using the name David Holt. In 2001 Anders took a role playing a high school senior in the Olsen twins' series So Little Time. Later in 2001 Anders landed the role of Julian Sark in Alias; originally a guest star, Anders was made a regular and lasted until 2006. Before his acting debut in Alias, Anders worked at The Gap and taught tennis. Between 2001 and 2006 while working on Alias Anders made guest appearances on television shows such as Charmed, CSI and Grey's Anatomy, worked on an independent film, and was involved in several plays. In 2002 Anders played in the independent film, The Surge. In December 2001 he appeared in The Source magazine in an ad for the rapper Canibus, in which Anders doubles as Eminem. In 2005 Anders joined the cast of Beautiful, an Off-Broadway rock musical, as the lead. Beautiful was shown during the New York International Fringe Festival. In the same year he participated in the film Circadian Rhythm. In 2006 Anders worked on the horror film Left in Darkness alongside actress Monica Keena.

In 2007 Anders played the role of ELI in the film of the same name, ELI. He went on to be cast in a regular role in the second season of NBC’s hit Heroes as Adam Monroe/Takezo Kensei, a new character with the ability to regenerate. Anders was once again asked to use his British accent from Alias, despite being an American actor. He is also working in two other movies; Into the Blue 2: The Reef and The Revenant. He recently joined the eighth season of 24. Anders has guest starred in the TV series The Vampire Diaries in 2010.

Stage

On stage Anders has played the lead role in the world premiere of Rockne: The Musical. He also appeared in The Diary of Anne Frank, in 2001, which received an award for Best Ensemble performance at the Back Stage West Garland Awards.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2002	The Source	Booji
	Alias	Julian Sark	2002–2006
2004	CSI	Travis Watson	Episode: "Crow's Feet"
2005	Charmed	Count Roget	Episode: "Show Ghouls"
	Circadian Rhythm	Garrison	Voice
	CSI: Miami	Brian Miller	Episode: "Felony Flight"
2006	Deadwood	Infantryman	Episode: "The Catbird Seat"
	Left in Darkness	Donovan
2007	ELI	Eli
	Grey's Anatomy	Jim	Episode: "The Other Side of This Life"
	Heroes	Adam Monroe	Main cast: 2007 Recurring: 2008, 2010
2009	Lie to Me	Sgt. Russell Scott	Episode: "Moral Waiver"
	Children of the Corn	Burton Stanton
	The Revenant	Bart
	Into the Blue 2: The Reef	Carlton
	Double Harmony	Jake
2010	24	Josef Bazhaev
	The Vampire Diaries	Johnathan "John" Gilbert	Recurring
2011	Once Upon A Time	Dr. Whale	Recurring

Trivia

J.J Abrams has said that Sark (David Anders) was only supposed to be in only a couple episodes but then after he saw David's characterisation he added in more to the series.

External links

• David Anders at the Internet Movie Database