Riley is the golden boy of the Costello family. He's a football hopeful, and feels pressure to live up to his Dad's legacy. Riley's been a supportive figure to his younger siblings Seth and Jason throughout their own trials of youth.
He is happy and engaged to girlfriend Mercedes. The only trouble is, his dad can't keep his hands off her! Will Riley find out?
Rob Norbury featured in Grange Hill before taking on the role of Riley in the main Hollyoaks show.
Rob is also a model.
Taylor Laurence Handley (born June 1, 1984) is an American actor.
In 1998, Taylor played Rory Buck in the movie Jack Frost. In 2000, Handley starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie, Phantom of the Megaplex. Handley appeared in three episodes during the last season of Dawson's Creek and guest starred during an episode of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation". In 2003/2004, Handley appeared in six episodes of the first season of The O.C., as Oliver Trask, a mentally unstable teenager who, after meeting Marissa Cooper in a therapy clinic, becomes infatuated with her to the point of nearly committing suicide over her.
In 2006, Handley appeared in three fims: The Standard, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning and Zerophilia. Handley's next film, September Dawn, was released to theaters on August 24, 2007.
In 2007, Handley starred as Johnny Miller in the short-lived CW television program, Hidden Palms.
On April 9, 2009, he guest starred in the pilot of Southland, playing the character Wade. He returned as Wade in the second episode of the second season.
More recently he appeared in the 2011 film Battle: Los Angeles
Ian Somerhalder has revealed that he is excited about the final episodes of The Vampire Diaries' second season.
Speaking to MTV, Somerhalder claimed that he has no idea what will happen as the season comes to a close.
"I'm just curious as to what the hell's going to happen," he said. "I'm excited to see.
"Season one was such a great journey and it took us all for a ride. I'm excited to see what happens. I'm excited to see because it's not as if you read a film and you have the script and there's a definite answer. We don't know."
Somerhalder also revealed his dream scenario for the season finale, saying: "What I would like to see is Damon kidnap Elena and then go to the Caribbean. Go to Paris first and then [the other characters] go looking for her and then they disappear to the Caribbean for a season or something, while everyone frantically searches for them."
The Vampire Diaries returns for a new episode on April 7 at 8/7c on The CW.
Eddie Cibrian has signed on to take the lead role in the upcoming NBC drama pilot Playboy.
The casting change comes just days after Jeff Hephner was announced for the part.
A source told TVLine that the decision was made by series executives following a table read whereupon Hephner was deemed "not a good fit" and was replaced by former CSI: Miami actor Cibrian.
Production on Playboy, which centres on mob-connected attorney Nick Dalton, is due to begin filming next Tuesday in Chicago.
David Jones-Roberts (born 9 April 1990) is an Australian actor, best known for portraying Xavier Austin in the long running TV series Home and Away, since late 2008.
Davids' father, Danny Roberts, is an actor who played Andy Green on Sons and Daughters and Jim Eagan on Underbelly 3, and his mother, actress Lindsay Neil worked with Benny Hill, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett.
David graduated from the Newtown High School of the Performing Arts.
In his spare time, David is a bit of a sports fan and loves swimming, playing football and doing gymnastics.
Scott Wolf has hinted that his character will survive the second season finale of V. Executive producer Scott Rosenbaum previous revealed that two or "possibly even three" regular characters will be killed off in the finale.
Wolf, who plays unscrupulous journalist Chad Decker, told IGN: "Several of our key characters, including Chad... are in very fatalistic circumstances. Sort of doomsday circumstances. Some of those characters who are in these circumstances survive and some don't."
However, the actor added that he believes Decker has "a bit of a 'get out of jail free' card".
"He's the most vulnerable but in some ways he's the also the least," he claimed. "Because I think it would be very difficult to extinguish him without some explanation."
Wolf continued: "He has this platform [on television] where all these people watch him, and I think he's smart enough to know that the key to his survival is being necessary to Anna in some way." The second season of V will conclude on March 15.
Christopher "Chris" Lowell (born October 17, 1984) is an American television actor.
He played the role of Stosh "Piz" Piznarski in the CW noir drama Veronica Mars and most recently played the character William "Dell" Parker in the ABC Grey's Anatomy spin-off, Private Practice.
Lowell is vocalist and harmonicist for the indie acoustic band Two Shots for Poe.
He also appeared in BriTANicK's YouTube videos 'Pillow Talk' and 'The Morning After'.
Michael Alan Welch (born July 25, 1987) is an American actor. He has portrayed the roles of Luke Girardi on the TV series Joan of Arcadia and Mike Newton in the 2008 film Twilight and its sequels New Moon and Eclipse.
Welch was born in Los Angeles, California, and began his acting career at the age of 10. Welch is close friends with his Joan of Arcadia co-star Aaron Himelstein, who played the recurring character Friedman on the series. He and Himelstein had known each other for several years but did not become good friends until the series began in 2003.
Welch appeared in the 1998 film Star Trek: Insurrection, as well as on the television series Malcolm in the Middle, The X-Files, 7th Heaven, Cold Case, Without a Trace, NCIS, Crossing Jordan, The Riches, and Birds of Prey. He also narrated the Carl Hiaasen book, Flush, for CD in 2006. One of his most acclaimed roles is as a teenage version of Colonel Jack O'Neill (Young Jack O'Neill) in the Stargate SG-1 episode "Fragile Balance". In 2008, Welch played Mike Newton in the film Twilight, based on the book by Stephenie Meyer. He reprised the role in the film's 2009 sequel, New Moon. He stars also in the Indie thriller Unrequited under the direction from Jason Epperson.
Welch is featured in the online viral campaign "Aczone: The Musical", which was created to inform teenagers about a new acne treatment
Christopher Michael "Chris" Pratt (born June 21, 1979) is an American actor best known for his roles as Harold Brighton "Bright" Abbott in the television series Everwood, the recurring character Winchester "Ché" Cook in season 4 of The OC, and Andy Dwyer in the television series Parks and Recreation.
Raised in Issaquah, Washington, Pratt was waiting tables at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company restaurant in Maui, Hawaii when he was discovered by actor-director Rae Dawn Chong; she cast him in the horror film Cursed Part 3. He joined the cast of The O.C. for its fourth season, playing Ché, an activist. He also had an appearance in the action film Wanted, as James McAvoy's best friend.
He dated Everwood co-star Emily VanCamp, who portrayed his character's sister. He married actress Anna Faris on July 9, 2009. Chris will co-star with Brad Pitt in the 2011 Movie Moneyball.
Tom Hardy, born September 15, 1977, in East Sheen, London, England, is an English actor.
Hardy began his career in war dramas. He studied at the Drama Centre, London and subsequently at Richmond Drama School before winning the part of United States Army Private John Janovec in the 2000 award-winning HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers". A year later, he made his feature film debut in Ridley Scott's war thriller "Black Hawk Down".
Since then Hardy has appeared in multiple TV series and movies including "Dot the I", "Star Trek Nemesis", "Marie Antoinette" and "Oliver Twist", just to name a few.
Hardy was awarded the 2003 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer for his performances in "Blood" and "Arabia, We'd All Be Kings" performed at the Royal Court Theatre and Hampstead Theatre. He was also nominated for a 2004 Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer of 2003 in a Society of London Theatre Affiliate for his performance in the aforementioned production of "Arabia, We'd All Be Kings".
The best thing about being an actor, Hardy says, is that he gets to learn about everything and never having to be one thing.
Misha Collins (born Misha Dmitri Tippens Krushnic) August 20, 1974. He grew up in Massachusetts. After attending the Greenfield Center School, Misha graduated from Northfield Mount Hermon in 1992. In the following year, he pursued a wide variety of interests; including a job at NPR headquarters, a White House internship during the Clinton administration, construction work, and an EMT certification course. He then went on to the University of Chicago where he studied social theory. After college, Misha moved to Washington, DC with his girlfriend (now his wife) Victoria Vantoch, a writer, and started an educational software company.
Then, on a lark, Misha decided to take an acting class, and soon found himself in the midst of a career change. He got a call for a role in Liberty Heights (directed by Barry Levinson), and then landed a part in Girl, Interrupted. He moved to Los Angeles soon thereafter, and now has a substantial list of acting credits to his name, including roles on 24, ER, CSI, Monk, Charmed and NYPD Blue.
Having traveled in Russia and mastered the accent, Misha has been called on several times to play Russian characters in television series—most notably the villainous assassin, Alexis Drazen, on 24. He has also appeared in seven independent feature films, most recently Stonehenge Apocalypse.
Recently, Misha wrote and directed the short film Stranger Danger.
Misha Collins joined Twitter (@mishacollins) on May 12, 2009. He soon attracted a large number of followers, whom he decided to call his minions, a collective term happily adopted by fans. He occasionally refers to himself as their Overlord.
