Jason Behr Biography
Jason Behr was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the United States as Jason Nathaniel Behr. He is an American film and television actor. He was twice nominated for a Saturn Award, after starring in the American television series Roswell.
Jason has also featured in the following films The Shipping News and the American remake of the Japanese horror film The Grudge. He has also appeared as a guest in series like Step by Step, The Profiler, 7th Heaven, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, JAG and had a recurring role in the American television series Dawson’s Creek.
Jason Behr Career
Jason Behr was cast in the ABC series Push, but the ill-fated show only aired a few times before being canceled. Then he later picked up a recurring role as the character Chris Wolfe in The WB’s series Dawson’s Creek.
While filming the show in North Carolina, Jason read the script for a pilot called Roswell High — later shortened to Roswell — and felt an immediate affinity for the lead alien, Max Evans. Roswell had a moderately successful run on The WB for two seasons, then moved to UPN for its third and final season.
Since then, Behr has taken on a variety of roles in films such as Unsub Lee’s Happily, Even After; Jeffery Levy’s Man of God, and Rebecca Cook’s Shooting Livien. In 2001 he played Dennis Buggit in Lasse Hallstrom’s The Shipping News, he co-starred with Kevin Spacey, Judi Dench, Julianne Moore, and Cate Blanchett.
He made a guest appearance in Buffy the Vampire Slayer in 1998 and was later reunited with leading actress Sarah Michelle Gellar in the hit Japanese/American film collaboration The Grudge. His two most recent film appearances were in the Korean CGI dragon fantasy D-War and Lions Gate’s reinvention of the werewolf tale, Skinwalkers.
In 2006, Behr played the CBS drama pilot, The Way, about a powerful New England family that uses witchcraft to further its business enterprises. Jason featured as Michael Warden, the show’s male lead, one of the family’s children who is at the center of a sibling power rivalry.
Jason is in good company with fellow castmates who include, Jane Alexander, Julia Ormond, Peter Strauss, Will Patton, and Andrew McCarthy. In May 2006, Behr wrapped Senseless, filmed in and around Glasgow, Scotland, for Matador Pictures, Circle of Confusion, Shoreline Entertainment, and in association with Plum Films; a dark chiller written by Simon Hynd, based on the book of the same name by Stona Fitch. Jason takes the lead, playing Eliott Gast, an American economist who is abducted in Europe by a shadowy anti-globalization group.
Behr starred in the thriller The Tattooist, where he portrayed as a tattoo artist who becomes fascinated by the Samoan tatau tradition, but his desire to learn the ancient skill brings him into conflict and danger with the island mysticism and a deadly spirit is released as a result.
The film was commercial director Peter Burger’s feature film debut. Filming started in Auckland, New Zealand, in September 2006, and finished in early November 2006. It was released in New Zealand on 30 August 2007. In April 2007, Behr started shooting his new film project Frost (since renamed The Last International Playboy).
The film made its debut at the Gen Art film festival in New York City in April 2008, with its nationwide theatrical release on June 12, 2009.
Jason Behr Age
Jason was born on December 30, 1973, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. He is 49 years old as of 2022.
Jason Behr Height
Jason Behr stands 1.83 m tall
Jason Behr Family
Behr was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Patricia Ann Steiner and David Behr as the second of four boys. His siblings include older brother Johnny Behr, and younger brothers Aaron Behr. He also has a younger half-sister namely Alisa Behr. Jason’s ancestry is German, Austrian, Irish, English, Danish, Scottish.
Jason Behr Wife
Jason previously dated his Roswell co-star Katherine Heigl. He later met actress KaDee Strickland, While shooting The Grudge in Japan the two finally got married on November 10, 2006, in Ojai, California.
Jason Behr Children
The couple has a son who was born in October 2013.
Jason Behr Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $2 million dollars.
Jason Behr Roswell
Jason Behr starred in the TV series Roswell as Max Evans. The series majors on the Roswell High young adult book series, which is written by Melinda Metz and edited by Laura J. Burns, who became staff writers for the television series. Where he was twice nominated for a Saturn Award.
Jason Behr Actor
Jason Behr is an American film and television actor, who was twice nominated for a Saturn Award, followed by roles in the films The Shipping News and the American remake of the Japanese horror film The Grudge.