Travis Fimmel

At 45 years old, Travis Fimmel has this physical status:

Travis Fimmel (born 15 July 1979) is an Australian actor and former model.

He is best known for his role as Ragnar Lothbrok in the History Channel television series Vikings.

Early life and modelling

Fimmel was born in Echuca, Victoria, Australia. He was raised on a 5,500-acre dairy farm in Lockington, England. He is the uncle of Jennie, a disabled recreation officer, and Chris, a cattle farmer. Fimmel, aspired to be a professional Australian rules footballer, moved to Melbourne to play for the St Kilda Football Club in the AFL, but he was forced to leave early in the season due to a fractured leg. He was accepted to RMIT to study commercial architecture and engineering but he was later delayed to study in another country.

Fimmel's modelling career began when he was discovered working out at a gym in Hawthorn, Melbourne, by Matthew Anderson, a talent scout for the Chadwick Models company.

After walking into their office broken and barefoot, Fimmel took the trip to the United States and was hired by agency LA Models in 2002. Cast by Jennifer Starr, he was the first male to get a six-figure contract to model solely for Calvin Klein for a year, and the last to be personally hired by the brand's eponymous designer. He starred in the Crave men's fragrance campaign and modelled the brand's famous underwear. One of his London billboards had to be withdrawn after reports of traffic jam and accidents among 'rubbernecking' female drivers, according to Fimmel, who maintained that the tale had begun with a rumour spread on the internet.

He was named one of the world's youngest bachelors by America's People magazine in 2002, and at the time, he was dubbed "the most in-demand male model in the world." Any journalists have suggested that Fimmel inspired Sex and the City's heartthrob'Jerry' Smith Jerrod.

Fimmel appeared on several magazine covers, including France's Numero Homme and America's TV Guide, after turning down a request from Seven Network to be a guest judge on the TV show Make Me a Supermodel.

Personal life

Fimmel's favorite recreational pursuits include football, fishing, camping, horse riding, surfing, riding motorcycles, and going to the beach.

Fimmel also appeared in a celebrity cricket match against England in the 2009 Australian Ashes, alongside fellow Australian actor Jesse Spencer, celebrity chef Curtis Stone, INXS bass guitarist Garry Gary Beers, and cricket fast bowler Michael Kasprowicz.

Fimmel is an atheist.

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Acting career

Fimmel began his career by appearing in Janet Jackson's "Someone to Call My Lover" music video, as well as Jennifer Lopez's "I'm Real" (original version). He trained under Hollywood acting coach Ivana Chubbuck, but it took two years for him to perform his first role. He received the lead in the WB's Tarzan (2003) series, which CNN ranked as one of the "five best things happening in entertainment right now," in which he did the majority of his own stunts. In addition, he appeared in two television pilots: the WB's Rocky Point with Lauren Holly in 2005, and the Fox crime thriller Southern Comfort with Madeleine Stowe in 2006.

On the little and big screens, Fimmel has developed a diverse cast of characters. In Restraint and a Party Boy, he portrayed a murderer with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson in 2008. In Pure Country 2: The Gift and a forensic photographer in Australia's Needle, co-starring Ben Mendelsohn, depicted a compassionate cowboy in 2010.

In Ivory, a "creative, edgy, out-of-the-box" independent film that was an Official Selection in the 2010 Montreal World Film Festival and the Strasbourg International Film Festival, he depicted a talented classical pianist. "Ivory," produced by Academy Award-winning Gray Frederickson and co-starring Martin Landau and Peter Stormare, "details classical pianists' lives in an American conservatory as they confront personal and career rivalry amid the challenges of education."

In the 2010 film The Experiment, Fimmel played Helweg, a prison guard. According to Fimmel, the position was originally assigned to Elijah Wood, who had stepped out of shooting for unknown reasons, so the job was essentially filled. The film is based on a real-life study on volunteers at Stanford University that was cut short after spinning out of control, with 'guards' showing sadistic behavior and 'prisoners' suffering depression.

In A&E's 2009 film The Beast, Fimmel starred opposite Patrick Swayze. Ellis Dove, a rookie undercover FBI agent, partnered with Swayze's Charles Barker, a hardened veteran cop. Due to Swayze's death from pancreatic cancer, production halted after 13 episodes.

In two episodes of NBC's 2010 adventure chase (season 1, episodes 1 and 8), directed by Jerry Bruckheimer, he played fugitive Mason Boyle.

Fimmel appeared in FX's TV pilot Outlaw Country in 2011, dubbed a "modern drama set against a back drop of a southern organized crime family." According to Variety magazine, he plays a tough, "hard-drinking gang member, as well as the main character's best friend."

In the 2013 redneck Southern comedy film The Baytown Outlaws, he co-starred with Billy Bob Thornton and Eva Longoria, playing one of three hapless Oodie brothers who rips off more than he can chew when he promises to help a woman recover her godson from her deadbeat ex-husband.

Fimmel leads Harodim, which is based on the Lazarus Protocol's origins, with Peter Fonda as a former intelligence officer who has been trained in black ops tracking down the world's most wanted terrorist who has been exposed by his own chain of command.

Fimmel was co-starring Alexander Ludwig, Katheryn Winnick, Gabriel Byrne, and Linus Roache in the drama television series Vikings for four seasons. The show, which premiered in 2013 in Ireland, chronicles "the mighty and ferocious world of the mighty Norsemen who raided, traded, and explored during the Middle Ages." He portrayed a character based on Ragnar Lobrók, the legendary Viking king who is befuddled by his local chieftain's nascent tendencies and flies out to pillage new territories. Fimmel's appearance in the United States was described as "engaging," according to USA Today, while the Huffington Post called it his "breakout role."

In Warcraft (2016), a live-action film adaptation of the Warcraft video game franchise, Fimmel played military commander Anduin Lothar. On Fimmel, a horse spooked by a wind fan collapsed while doing one of his own stunts, but he recovered unscathed.

In Maggie's Plan, he was cast as a quirky hipster, Julianne Moore, and Lean on Pete's Lean on Pete, as a loving but irresponsible father.

Fimmel, the recipient of GQ Australia's Men of the Year Awards, told the audience, "I'm not sure how I got this," he told the audience, "I'm not sure how I got this," he said.

Fimmel was announced as the lead actor in Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan in February 2018, portraying Major Harry Smith, who led troops under his command against the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War's Battle of Long Tan. It is based on the remarkable account of 105 Australian soldiers and 3 New Zealand troops who battled an estimated 2,000 North Vietnamese troops in a rubber plantation near Nui Dat on August 17th.

In the indie film Dreamland, he co-stars opposite Australian Margot Robbie. The tale follows a teenage boy on his way to beat out the FBI to capture a fugitive bank robber in order to win a bounty and save the family's farm, set in the 1930s Dust Bowl. El Tonto, a comedy written, directed by, and starring Charlie Day, will be his next film.

In 2020, he appears in HBO Max's science fiction drama Raised by Wolves, directed Ridley Scott and Scott Free Productions.

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