Ian Somerhalder plays Damon
Ian Somerhalder plays Damon Salvatore, the elder and far more
dangerous of two vampire brothers who share a long and bitter
history, in The Vampire Diaries.
Somerhalder is well known for his role as Boone on J.J. Abrams'
critically acclaimed drama
Lost. He won the 2005 SAG Award as part of
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series and Lost
won the 2005 Emmy® Award for Best Television Series - Drama.
The show was also nominated for the 2004 Golden Globe Award and the
2004 People's Choice Award.
Somerhalder will next appear on the big screen in Scott Mann's The
Tournament, opposite Robert Carlyle, Ving Rhames and Kelly
Hu.
Other 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 'unauthorised
parody' of Charles Schulz's comic strip Peanuts that follows the
travails of a grownup Charlie Brown and the original gang as their
beloved beagle dies. Somerhalder co-starred in the production with
Eddie Kaye Thomas, Eliza Dushku, America Ferrera, Ari Graynor and
Logan Marshall-Green.
Somerhalder recently starred in the Sci Fi Channel's Lost City
Raiders, opposite James Brolin, which premiered to record ratings.
He also starred in the miniseries Marco Polo, playing the title
character opposite Brian Dennehy and B.D Wong.
Somerhalder's other television credits include the lead role on
Young Americans, the TV movie Anatomy of a Hate Crime, and guest
starring roles in CSI, CSI: Miami, Law and Order: Special Victims
Unit and Smallville.
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