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The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.
~ Kevin Sorbo~ |
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Sorbo was born in Mound, Minnesota, where he attended Mound Westonka High School. He is the son of Ardis, a nurse, and Lynn Sorbo, a junior high school mathematics and biology teacher. He is of Norwegian descent and was raised in a Lutheran family. Sorbo was educated at Moorhead State University and worked as a model for print and television advertising in the 1980s. Sorbo was dubbed the name, "The Sorbs" throughout adolescence, which is a nickname that sticks with him to this day.
Sorbo started his acting career in the late 1980s making guest appearances in several television series such as 1st & Ten, Murder She Wrote and The Commish. He was considered for and lost out to Dean Cain as Superman in Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and was a possible contender for the role of Agent Mulder in The X Files which went to David Duchovny. In 1994 he shot to fame for playing the role of Hercules in the television film Hercules and the Amazon Women. This was the first in a series of television films that served as pilots for the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys which ran from 1995 to 1999. The series was a huge ratings success throughout different countries becoming one of the most popular syndicated shows in television history and becoming Sorbo's most well-known role. He also guest-starred as Hercules in episodes of the spin-off series Xena: The Warrior Princess and provided the voice of Hercules in the animated film Hercules and Xena - The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus which released in 1998. In between the years playing Hercules he played his first leading film role in Kull the Conqueror (1997). After Hercules came to an end he played the starring role of Captain Dylan Hunt in the science-fiction drama series Andromeda from 2000 to 2005. In 2006 he played a recurring role on the final season of The O.C and guest-starred in the sitcom Two and a Half Men. In 2007 he appeared in the direct-to-video film Walking Tall: The Payback which is a sequel to the 2004 film Walking Tall . He reprised his role in the second sequel Walking Tall: Lone Justice which released later that year. He also starred in the Lifetime Channel film Last Chance Café, the Hallmark Channel film Avenging Angel, co-starring his real life wife Sam Sorbo and guest starred as a bounty hunter in the season 2 episode "Bounty Hunters!" of the series Psych. Most recently, he has appeared in the spoof film Meet the Spartans which opened at Number One at the U.S. box office charts.  | | Full Name: Kevin David Sorbo | | Nickname(s): The Sorbs | | Eye color: Blue | | Height: 6' 3" (191 cm) | | Notable feature(s): | Family:  Kevin married actress Sam Jenkins on January 5, 1998. Son Braedon Cooper Sorbo was born on August 22, 2001. Second child, son Shane Haaken Sorbo was born on March 31, 2004. The couple's third child, daughter Octavia Flynn Sorbo was born on October 16, 2005. | | Resides in:Los Angeles | | Religious affiliations: | | Political affiliation: | | Personal interests/hobbies: |
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Sorbo is the spokesman and chair of A World Fit For Kids! (AWFFK!), a non-profit organization that trains teenagers to become mentors to younger children.
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Few things you might not know about Kevin:
Kevin studied martial arts in order to do many of his own stunts.
He has been considered for and lost out on a number of major roles including Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and The X-Files. He did, however star in the movie Kull the Conqueror
Kevin hated the storyline of the "Hercules" episode "Warrior Princess" because he truly believed that no woman could ever come between Hercules and Iolaus (Fall 1997) Underwent drug therapy for an aneurysm in his left shoulder; complications from the medication forced him to withdraw from a planned role in "Black Dog" (1998). The aneurysm almost killed him, and for a time it left him paralysed on the left side, blind, and deaf. Even after he recovered enough to return to work he could only go for five or six hours, so much more of the sixth season was filmed using his doubles. | revealing he is angry at director Sam Raimi, for not casting him in any of his Spider-Man films:
I busted my ass on Hercules and I almost died doing it. I had an aneurysm that exploded in my body that almost killed me. I think I'm a good enough actor that he can put me in a secondary part in one of his feature films. It would be nice if he did that. I think he's holding a grudge over me. He wanted me to do a movie back in 1996 when I decided to do Kull the Conqueror. ... Quite frankly, the movie was horrible. It is very infantile from a guy who's as powerful as he is and as wealthy as he is. Throw me a bone. Why not let me do something?
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