• Date of Birth: March 27, 1971
  • Place of Birth: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Nathan Fillion mini-bio: After working in several theatre, television and film productions, including the improvised soap opera Die-Nasty, Fillion moved to New York City in 1994 where he acted in the soap opera One Life to Live as Joey Buchanan, for which he was nominated in 1996 for a Daytime Emmy Award in the "Outstanding Younger Actor" category. In 1997, he left the series to pursue other projects. After moving to Los Angeles, he played a supporting role in the sitcom Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place. He was cast as "the Minnesota Ryan" in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan.

Fillion starred as Captain Malcolm Reynolds in the Joss Whedon science fiction television series Firefly (2002), for which he won the "Cinescape Genre Face of the Future - Male" award by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA. Fillion also won the SyFy Genre Awards in 2006 for Best Actor/Television and was runner-up for Best Actor/Movie. Fillion reprised his role as Reynolds in Whedon's movie Serenity (2005). He had a recurring role as Caleb in the final season of Whedon's series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

He has lent his voice to the animated series King of the Hill in 2001, the video game Jade Empire (as the voice of Gao the Lesser), and the animated series Justice League Unlimited (as Vigilante in the episodes "Hunter's Moon" and "Patriot Act") in 2005 and 2006.

Having finished the James Gunn horror film Slither, the romantic comedy film Waitress is now in post-production. Fillion is currently filming White Noise 2: The Light.

He is reportedly scheduled to appear in two episodes of the 2006-2007 season of the television show Lost. However, ABC and the creators of Lost have allegedly been releasing false spoilers.

For his starring role as Bill Pardy in the feature film Slither, Nathan garnered a 2006 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards nomination in the category of "Dude You Don't Wanna Mess With". In October of 2006 Nathan signed a talent holding contract with the Fox Broadcasting Company; he is slated to star in a television series yet to be developed. If Fox decides not to air the results, he will instead be cast in one of their existing programs.

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Height: 6' 1½"
Nickname(s): 'Captain Tight Pants'
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Education:Attended Concordia University College of Alberta; Attended University of Alberta
Family: Parents - Cookie and Bob Fillion, (Older) Brother Jeff Fillion
Resides in: California
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Comments

  • kittykungfu1
    Nathan + Canadian = Wicked :)
    posted 70 days ago
  • starwolf075
    Best actor, period.
    posted 297 days ago
  • jeterfan1205
    He has the best ass I have ever seen
    posted 467 days ago
  • titlees
    Love this hunk!!!
    Wonder if he'still single and....ready to mingle!!!
    posted 498 days ago
  • Wildflower1984
    I'd like to be a part of the fan club. I'm already on Nathan's friends list. I leave him comments once in awhile, and yes, his blogs are funny, but they also make a point.

    not only is he part of KNTR, but he's also supporting the "HERO" project that is slowly getting underway in England.
    posted 542 days ago
  • chcltchic
    you know, i think we'll all agree he's a great actor and his blogs on myspace are funny and well written and, yeah, he's hot, but people seem to forget to mention that he's sweet as to his fans, he works really hard on the Kids Need To Read program and he's always supporting his friends in their works...i think he just gets cooler the more we learn about him. :) so let's all learn! right? no? okay...
    posted 577 days ago
  • oceanfaery7
    I loved this movie! although it was made b/c Firefly was out I still loved it! I wanted Firefly to stay though.
    posted 611 days ago
  • Edos112
    I saw buffy before I watched Firefly, and I was positive that I was going to hate Firefly because Nathan played Caleb, the evil priest in season 7 of Buffy. I got over it quickly though!
    posted 728 days ago
  • aerandirlongbow
    any of ya see nathan in buffy? he was a bad guy, had the humour of mal renolds from serenity though. i love this guys work and wish him all the best. "dear lord, please bring back firefly"
    posted 837 days ago
  • MrsJackHarkenss
    NATHAN WILL YOU MARRY ME?!?!?!?!?! PLEASE?!?!?! lol. I couldnt help my self. he just looks so good.
    posted 851 days ago

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  • Nathan Fillion of "Firefly" and "Serenity" portrayed James Francis Ryan (a.k.a. the wrong Ryan)of Minnesota in "Saving Private Ryan".  Answer »
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