Kellan Lutz was born on March 15th 1985 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an American film and television actor.

After graduating from high school, he considered applying to college where he would pursue a career in chemical engineering; he also considered becoming a Navy seal; however the call of performing was much stronger so he moved to Los Angeles despite the lack of support from his parents.

He’s come a long way from modeling, appearing in several theatre productions early in his career allowed him to perfect his talent and turn it into a profession. He’s since been in several TV spots such as, “the Bold and the Beautiful”, ” Model Citizens”, “CSI New York”, “Six Feet Under”, “Summerland”, and most recently a small appearance on the hit show “Heroes”.

All these roles helped jump start his career and gained him more fame, which soon led to roles HBO’s series ” The Comeback” and hit movies such as ” Stick It” and Accepted” as well as a lead part in Hillary Duffs video ” With Love” in which he plays her love/lust interest.

Kellan has several projects that are currently waiting to be released, such as HBO’s 7 hour mini series “Generation Kill” about the war in Iraq, which is scheduled to be out sometime this July, also, the movie ” Prom Night” starring Brittany Snow, which will be released this following April.

He is currently filming “TWILIGHT” the movie, based on the hit Vampire novel by Stephenie Meyer, in which he will be playing Emmett Cullen, the fun loving older brother.

Filmography

• Twilight (2008)
• "Generation Kill" (2008) (mini) TV mini-series
• Prom Night (2008)
• Deep Winter (2008)
• "Heroes" (1 episode, 2007)
• "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (1 episode, 2007)
• Ghosts of Goldfield (2007) (V)
• Accepted (2006)
• Stick It (2006)
• "The Comeback" (8 episodes, 2005)
• "Summerland" (2 episodes, 2005)
• "Six Feet Under" (1 episode, 2005)
• "CSI: NY" (1 episode, 2005)
• "The Bold and the Beautiful" (1 episode, 2004)