Christopher Egan
Christopher Andrew Egan is an Australian actor. He played Nick Smith in the Australian soap opera Home and Away from 2000 to 2003, and David Shepherd on the NBC television drama Kings. He also portrayed Alex Lannon in the apocalyptic TV series Dominion.
Life and career
Egan appeared in several commercials and did some modelling, before he performed in the Glen Street productions of Les Misérables and West Side Story. From 2000 until 2003, Egan played Nick Smith in the television soap opera Home and Away. He then went on to appear in the 2005 miniseries Empire as Marcus Agrippa. Egan lived in Rome while filming for the series and learned basic Italian.He has also been trained in gymnastics, singing, dancing and acting at the KICK Performance Group in Sydney. As well as competing in several eisteddfods at an early age, Egan has been able to use his gymnastics skills extensively in the thriller film Crush.
He moved to Los Angeles in 2003. In 2006, he appeared in the film adaptation of Christopher Paolini's novel Eragon. In 2007, he played a small role in Resident Evil: Extinction, the third movie in the Resident Evil series. In the summer of 2009, he shot the movie Letters to Juliet in Italy, with Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave and Gael García Bernal.
Egan starred in Dominion, a Sci Fi supernatural action drama based on characters from the 2010 feature film Legion that starred Paul Bettany. Egan played Alex Lannon, a rebellious young soldier who discovers he is the unlikely savior of humanity.