Ritchson, Alan

Ritchson was born in Grand Forks , North Dakota in the family of retired Air Force employee David and schoolteacher Vicki. The middle of the three brothers is the elder brother Eric and the younger Brian. As a child, his family moved to Ranto, Illinois . At the age of 10, his family settled in Nysville, Florida. ^[1] He studied at Niceville High School, which he graduated in 2002. Alan began his modeling career with work for the Abercrombie and Fitch catalog; also advertised underwear for internationaljock.com ^[2] .

In May 2006, he married Katherine Ritchson. The couple has three sons: Kalem (2012), Edan (2014) and Amory Tristan (12/06/2015) ^[3] .

In 2008, he began work at the Los Angeles-based agency Vision Model Management and took part in the advertising of erotic lingerie N2N Bodywear. By early 2009, Ritchson had finished working for Abercrombie and Fitch.

Appeared in the talent show " American Idol ", where he took 87th place in the list of the best participants in the third season, before he went to Hollywood . Alan earned the approval of Paula Abdul by performing a striptease ^[4] .

The television career began with the role of Arthur Curry (aka super-hero Aquaman) in the series “ Smallville Secrets ” ^[5] (the first appearance of the character is not in the cartoon) ^[5] , and a small military role in the 2006 film “Hallmark Channel”, “ Although no one comes with me, ”starring Cheryl Ladd . He also played Lucian Manet in the 2009 Lifetime movie, Cursed Waters. Appearing in several episodes of the series “Secrets of Smallville,” Alan voiced Aquaman in the animated film “Justice League: New Horizons”. In addition, he appeared in the final tenth season of “Smallville Secrets” ^[6] .

Ritchson starred in the films The Butcher (2006) and The Spring Break 83rd (2008), and also played a cameo role in the comedy Light Up This Summer! "(2009), in which AnnaLinn McCord played the main role - the star of the series" 90210: The New Generation ", in several episodes of which Alan played in season 3 (episodes of 2011 ). Alan played Tripp - Teddy Montgomery's lover, the character of Trevor Donovan ^[7] .

In 2007, director Robert Zemeckis chose Alan as the model for creating a 3D version of the main character in Beowulf . While working on the film, the sensors were mounted on Ritchson's body, transmitting the structure of his body and movement ^[8] . However, the film used facial expressions and dialogues performed by actor Ray Winston ^[1] .

At the end of 2005, the actor appeared in the Russian advertisement of Orbit chewing gum. In 2009, the actor appeared in the third season of the series “Hard Case”, playing a stripper. At the moment, the actor plays one of the main roles of the show on the Spike TV channel, Real Boys , as a junior student, a member of the college football team ^[9] . In addition, Ritchson appeared in episode 19 of season 8 of the CSI: Miami show, playing a corpse ^[10] .

Cinema

Television

• This Is Next Time (2006) ^[11] :

1. Share
2. Guppy
3. Invisible things
4. Eternity
5. This time
6. Love * 3
7. Poison
8. Take me away
9. Bad girl
10. Foolish me
11. Let's go
12. All i need
13. Never met
14. Take Me Away (Acoustic)

• Alan Ritchson on the Internet Movie Database
• Alan Ritson (rus.) On kinopoisk.ru
• Alan Richson at the cinema