Zachery Ty Bryan

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Zachery Ty Bryan
Born Zachery Ty Bryan
October 9, 1981 (1981-10-09) (age 30)
Aurora, Colorado, U.S.
Occupation Actor, Producer
Years active 1990– Present

Zachery Ty Bryan (born October 9, 1981) is an American actor and producer best known for his role as Brad Taylor on the American sitcom Home Improvement.

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[edit] Personal life

Bryan was born in Aurora, Colorado, the son of Jenny and Dwight Bryan[1] His cousin is Denver Broncos quarterback Brady Quinn. His cousin Laura, Brady's sister, is married to Green Bay Packers linebacker A.J. Hawk. He has a younger sister named Ciri. He attended La Salle High School, graduating in the Class of 2000.

[edit] Career

Before he starred in Home Improvement, he started in Denver with print and television advertising. His interest in acting soon brought him to California, where he received the role of Brad, the oldest Taylor child, in the show Home Improvement. His character was known for experimenting with different hair styles as well as being the child most often in trouble.

In the middle of Home Improvement Bryan made an appearance as Steve on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in 1995. After Home Improvement ended, Bryan made brief appearances in many other television shows including (2002) Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Peter Nicols, (2005) Veronica Mars as Caz Truman, and (2006) Shark as Scott Natterson, as well as a guest appearance on an episode of Reading Rainbow. He also appeared on Smallville in 2003 where he played Eric Marsh, a high school baseball player using steroids made from meteor rock. He was the second Home Improvement alum to make a guest appearance on the show after Jonathan Taylor Thomas. In 2005, Bryan appeared as Bryan Nolan in ESPN's TV movie Code Breakers. Bryan also guest starred in Cold Case (as the young murderer in the flashback scenes) and in 2008 as a young man hiring a hitman to kill his stepmother on the show Burn Notice.[2]

Bryan's film roles include the school bully in the 1996 Sinbad comedy First Kid. He starred in the 1995 movie Magic Island as Jack Carlisle, and the 1998 TV movie The Principal Takes A Holiday. He also starred as Eric in 1999's The Rage: Carrie 2. In 2001, he portrayed an ice hockey player in an episode of Touched by an Angel.[3]

More recently, he played defenseman Harry Keough alongside Gerard Butler in the 2005 movie The Game of Their Lives otherwise known as The Miracle Match about the 1950 US upset at the World Cup.[4] In 2006, he played as Clay in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, then in the 2009 TV mini-series Meteor, which aired on NBC. He also played Thor in the made-for-TV Syfy channel film Thor: Hammer of the Gods. The film originally aired on November 29, 2009.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] As an actor

[edit] As a producer

  • The Grief Tourist (2011)
  • Rogue River (2010)
  • Prowl (2010)
  • The Wine Guy Unplugged with Anthony Gilardi (2010)
  • The Cock Chronicles (2011)

[edit] Awards

[edit] Wins

[edit] Nominations

  • 1993 - Young Artist Awards for Best Young Actor Starring in a Television Series (Home Improvement)
  • 1998 - YoungStar Awards for Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Miniseries/Made-for-TV Movie (Principal Takes a Holiday)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Zachery Ty Bryan Biography (1981-)
  2. ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0117022/
  3. ^ Touched by an Angel Episode #719: "The Penalty Box"
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