Ian Somerhalder plays Damon
Ian Somerhalder stars in the hit drama The Vampire Diaries as
Damon Salvatore, the elder of two vampire brothers who share a long
and bitter history.
Somerhalder has received multiple Teen Choice Awards for his
portrayal of Damon.
In 2012 Somerhalder won the award for Choice Male Hottie and,
for the second straight year, won the award for Choice TV Actor:
Fantasy/Sci-Fi. In 2010, Somerhalder won the Teen Choice Award for
Choice TV Villain. He was also nominated for a 2012 People's Choice
Award in the Favorite TV Drama Actor category.
Somerhalder is well known for his role as Boone on J.J. Abrams'
critically acclaimed drama Lost. With his fellow cast mates, he won
a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama
Series and Lost won an Emmy® Award in 2005 for Best Television
Series -- Drama. The show was also nominated for the 2004 Golden
Globe Award and the 2004 People's Choice Award. Somerhalder
returned to Lost for several episodes during its final
season.
Somerhalder's other television credits include HBO's Tell Me You
Love Me, the TV movie Anatomy of a Hate Crime, a leading role in
The WB series Young Americans, and guest starring roles in CSI,
CSI: Miami, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and
Smallville.
Somerhalder's film credits include starring in Ellen Kanor's The
Wake, opposite Bijou Phillips; Aaron Wiederspahn's Sensation of
Sight, opposite David Strathairn and Jane Adams; Jim Sonzero's
Pulse, opposite Kristen Bell and Christina Milian; Roger Avary's
The Rules of Attraction, opposite James Van Der Beek, Kate
Bosworth, Kip Pardue and Jessica Biel; Irwin Winkler's Life as a
House, opposite Hayden Christensen, Kevin Kline and Kristen Scott
Thomas; Martin Guigui's Changing Hearts, opposite Lauren Holly and
Faye Dunaway; and Tony Giglio's In Enemy Hands, opposite William H.
Macy, Jeremy Sisto and Scott Caan.
On stage, Somerhalder starred off-Broadway in Trip Cullman's Dog
Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, an "unauthorized
parody" of Charles Schulz's comic strip Peanuts that follows the
travails of a grown up Charlie Brown and the original gang as their
beloved beagle dies. Somerhalder co-starred with Eddie Kaye Thomas,
Eliza Dushku, America Ferrera, Ari Graynor and Logan
Marshall-Green.
In 2010, Somerhalder launched The Ian Somerhalder Foundation (ISF),
which aims to educate, empower and collaborate with people and
projects that positively impact our planet and its creatures.
Through his role as founder and president, Somerhalder strives to
create awareness for environmental and animal rights-related
issues, focusing specifically on the environment, creatures and
clean energy initiatives. In 2011, ISF co-partnered with the
Alliance for Global Conservation to create Planet Green's "Blue
August," a week-long series that explored the wonders of the ocean
and aquatic life. Ian served as an online and on-camera guide for
the documentary and traveled to Trinidad and Tobago to film the
life cycle of sea turtles. Currently, ISF is working on developing
its own Animal Sanctuary dedicated to misfit and outcast pets, as
well as other animals.
In 2012, Somerhalder was awarded with the Humane Society of
America's prestigious Wyler Award for his work with animals.
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