David Anders portrayed Count Roget in the season 7 episode, Show Ghouls.
History[]
Early life[]
Anders was born in Grants Pass, Oregon, to parents Dr. Tony and Jeri Holt. Anders is the youngest of four children. 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 also guest-starred in the eighth season of 24. Anders has guest starred in the TV series The Vampire Diaries in 2010 and 2011.
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[]
- So Little Time
David as John Gilbert
- The Source
- Alias
- Player
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- Charmed
- Circadian Rhythm
- CSI: Miami
- Deadwood
- Left in Darkness
- Eli
- Greys Anatomy
- Heroes
- Lie to Me
- Into the Blue 2:The Reef
- The Revenant
- Children of The Corn (remake)
- 24
- The Vampire Diaries
- The Riot
- Once Upon a Time
- iZombie
Trivia[]
- David's role as Count Roget was his fourth appearance on a television show. His first being The Source, than Alais, which he appeared on for 56 episodes, then CSI and eventually Charmed.
- David, along with Melinda Clarke, Brandon Quinn, Dax Griffin, Sebastian Roché and Michael Trevino would all go and star together on The Vampire Diaries. David himself, portrays Johnathon "John" Gilbert.
- In addition, David had also guest starred on Once Upon a Time as Dr. Whale and his fairytale counterpart Victor Frankenstein: Rose McGowan, Sebastian Roché, James Immekus, and Costas Mandylor all guest starred on it in separate episodes.
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