Matt Lanter
Matt Lanter was born in Massillon, Ohio, United States on April 1st, 1983 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 41, Matt Lanter biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Matthew MacKendree Lanter (born April 1, 1983) is an American actor and model.
He rose to fame in The CW's youth drama series 90210, a spin-off of the 1990s Fox series Beverly Hills, 90210.
He appeared in several major released films, including Disaster Movie, WarGames: The Dead Code, Sorority Row, Vampires Suck, The Roommate, and Pitch Perfect 3.
Anakin Skywalker's voice in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels is his character.
Wyatt Logan, a time traveler, appeared in the NBC series Timeless from 2016 to 2018.
Early life
Lanter was born in Massillon, Ohio, on April 1, 1983. His father worked in insurance, and his mother was a school secretary. He has one older sister. Lanter's family immigrated to Atlanta, Georgia, when she was eight years old. Lanter played baseball in his youth and spent two seasons as a batboy with the Atlanta Braves. At the University of Georgia, he concentrated in business.
Personal life
On June 14, 2013, Lanter married Angela Stacy, his long-time girlfriend. The two people had been together since 2009. They had a daughter together in 2017.
Lanter underwent emergency surgery for a closed-loop intestinal blockage in March 2022, causing him "intense abdominal pain."
He is a Christian, as is his wife.
Career
In 2004, Lanter was a contestant on Bravo's reality show Manhunt: The Search for America's Most Gorgeous Male Model. He did not win the competition. In November of that year, Lanter appeared as a caddie in the biographical film Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius, starring Jim Caviezel as the title character.
In June and July of 2005, Lanter played the role of Nick in three episodes the supernatural drama Fox series Point Pleasant. The show received low ratings and did not last a full season. He has since appeared in television shows such as Grey's Anatomy and Big Love.
In April 2005, he signed on to become a series regular portraying the role of Horace Calloway on ABC's political drama series Commander in Chief, starring Geena Davis. The series premiered on September 27, 2005, ran for one season and was cancelled on June 14, 2006.
In 2008, he took on the lead role as Zach Conroy in The Cutting Edge: Chasing the Dream, with Francia Raisa, as members of a figure skating pair.
Later that year, Lanter starred in Disaster Movie as the character Will, along with Kim Kardashian and Vanessa Lachey. He described the former as "really sweet". The film later appeared on Empire's 2010 poll, The 50 Worst Movies Ever, in which it scored number 14. The Guardian writer Jason Solomons claimed that "Nothing can convey the grimness of Disaster Movie, which would be the Worst Movie Ever Made were it actually a movie at all."
Lanter later appeared in the slasher film Sorority Row, which was released on September 11, 2009. It received negative reviews from both critics and audiences.
In 2009, he began a major recurring role on The CW's 90210 portraying the role of Liam Court. In March 2010, he signed on for another parody project with Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, 20th Century Fox's Vampires Suck. He played Edward Sullen, a spoof of Edward Cullen from the Twilight saga. The film was released on August 18, 2010.
In 2011, Lanter appeared in the psychological thriller The Roommate as Jason. Although it received unfavorable reviews from critics, it was a moderate success at box office in North America, however it was somewhat overshadowed by that year's Super Bowl.
In 2012, he worked on the films Liars All and A Chance of Rain. He also voices Harry Osborn, Flash Thompson and Venom in the TV series Ultimate Spider-Man, which premiered on April 1, 2012. He has also signed on to voice the role of Sled in Secret of the Wings.. It was released later that year.
On March 5, 2013, Lanter was cast as a co-star in The CW's science fiction drama series Star-Crossed (originally titled Oxygen) opposite Aimee Teegarden. Star-Crossed is about a romance between a human girl (Teegarden) and an alien boy (Lanter) when he and six others of his kind are integrated into a suburban high school 10 years after they landed on Earth and were consigned to an internment camp.
In 2016, Lanter began playing the role of Wyatt Logan in the NBC series Timeless. Its second season was broadcast in early 2018, but the series was not renewed by NBC.
On February 11, 2019, it was announced that Lanter was cast as George Hutchence in the Netflix superhero series Jupiter's Legacy.
Lanter played Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker in the 2008 animated film Star Wars: The Clone Wars and later all seven seasons of the TV series of the same name. He has stated that his fellow cast members and the other people who worked on the show are "like family" to him. He also portrayed the character in Star Wars Battlefront II and Star Wars Rebels.
He has said that Hayden Christensen, the actor who had previously had the role of Anakin in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones and Episode III – Revenge of the Sith had a "very, very difficult job" demonstrating the character's arc from hero to villain, and considers himself fortunate that he had more time than Christensen to show the transformation.
In an interview, Lanter explained how he had no idea who he was auditioning for when trying for the role of Anakin. He was told he would be playing a character called "Deak Starkiller", who Dave Filoni suggested he portray as a mixture of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo.
In December 2015, Lanter had minor roles in Episode VII: The Force Awakens as alien scavengers and stormtroopers.
On December 13, 2019, he played Lant Davan, a New Republic soldier, in The Mandalorian episode "Chapter 6: The Prisoner".
He will return to his role as the voice of Anakin Skywalker in the upcoming miniseries Tales of the Jedi, which will be available on Disney+ on 26 October 2022.