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Jason Priestley

Jason Priestley
Jason Priestley
Born: Aug 28, 1969 in Vancouver, BC, Canada
Occupation: Actor, Director,
Active: '90s-2000s
Major Genres: Drama, Thriller
Career Highlights: Love and Death on Long Island, Cherish, The Lion of Oz
First Major Screen Credit: Nowhere to Run (1988)
23 Videos for Jason Priestley
Termination Point (2007) Cherish (2002) Sink or Swim (1997)
Above and Beyond (2006) Homicide: The Movie (2000) Vanishing Point (1997)
Hot Tamale (2006) Double Down (1999) Calendar Girl (1993)
Masters of Horror: The Screwfly Solution (2006) Eye of the Beholder (1999) Tombstone (1993)
Colditz (2005) Standing on Fishes (1999) Nowhere to Run (1988)
Hockey Mom (2005) The Highwayman (1999) Watchers (1988)
Murder at the Presidio (2005) Love and Death on Long Island (1997) Dark Side ()
Die Mommie Die (2003) Sink or Swim (1997)
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Biography:

The son of a Canadian actress, Jason Priestley began his own career as a child actor in TV commercials. After dropping out of acting in his teens to concentrate on high-school sports, Priestley got back in the professional swim following graduation, accepting one-shot roles on such Canada-based TV series as 21 Jump Street.

The young actor's first American TV assignment was the regular role of teen orphan Todd Mahaffey on the 1989 sitcom Sister Kate. Producer Aaron Spelling's daughter Tori spotted Priestley on Sister Kate and suggested that her father audition him for a role in the upcoming Fox series Beverly Hills 90210.

Priestley was cast as Brandon Walsh, twin brother of the estimable Brenda (Shannen Doherty). Like many of his young series co-stars, Priestley was intent on laying the groundwork for life after 90210. Though his first major film role in Penny Marshall's Calendar Girl (1993) came and went without fanfare, he enjoyed some success as a 90210 director.

Priestley encountered further success and even critical vindication with his turn as Ronnie Bostock, the B-movie hunk who steals John Hurt's heart in Love and Death on Long Island (1997). Critics warmed to Priestley's performance, noting that his days of idolatry had given him overly adequate preparation for his portrayal.

Unlike other teen idols who rue the day when the fan mail will cease, Priestley once claimed he was happy that his idoldom seems to be on a downward slide: It's like having a big cancerous lesion on your shoulder. Because people are fickle, man. On March 28, 2000, Priestley was undoubtedly happy that the limelight's glare had dimmed: Arrested for drunken driving after crashing his car into some trash cans, he was sentenced to five days in a Los Angeles jail.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.