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Jason Priestley
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| Jason Priestley | |
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| Birth name | Jason Bradford Prestley |
| Born | August 28, 1969 Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Spouse(s) | Naomi Lowde-Priestley (14 May 2005 - present) Ashlee Petersen (2 February 1999 – 2 January 2000) (divorced) |
Jason Bradford Priestley (born August 28, 1969) is a Canadian-born actor and film director. He is best known as the virtuous Brandon Walsh on the television series Beverly Hills, 90210, a role which catapulted him to fame in the early 1990s.
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Born Jason Bradford Priestley on August 28, 1969 in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Priestley became a naturalized American in 2007.
In 1990, Priestley was chosen as Brandon Walsh on the hit series Beverly Hills, 90210. He directed fifteen of the show's episodes.
Priestley joined the cast of Tru Calling as Jack Harper from 2004-2005. He was also a regular on the 2006 program Love Monkey. His television work also includes the 1989 series Sister Kate, the WB show What I Like About You, and a February 2006 appearance on Without a Trace. Priestley has also made several films, his most notable role perhaps being in 1997's Love and Death on Long Island, in which he played a teen idol struggling to be taken seriously as an actor. He directed the nineteenth episode in the final season of 7th Heaven.
On July 15th, he returned to series television as one of the lead males in Lifetime Television's new comedy-drama Side Order of Life.
Between 1992–1997, Priestley lived with actress Christine Elise, who had a recurring role on Beverly Hills, 90210. In 1999, he married make-up artist Ashlee Petersen, who he met on the set of Beverly Hills, 90210. They divorced in 2000. In 2005, he married make-up artist Naomi Lowde.
On July 2nd, he became a father to daughter, Ava, with his wife Naomi. The baby weighed 7 lbs, 4 oz at birth.[1]
On July 9, he revealed on Late Night with Conan O'Brien that he had become an American citizen several weeks prior.
Priestley has a twin sister, Justine Priestley, who is also an actress. He tried to get her to audition for the role of Brenda Walsh on Beverly Hills 90210, and although this never came to pass she did appear in a couple of episodes on the 90210 spin-off show Melrose Place in 1996.
His hobbies include race car driving. He rallied a Toyota Camry All-trac ST185 in the SCCA Pro Rally Series. He has provided commentary and interviews of racers for ABC's television coverage of IndyCar racing. In 1999 he participated in the first Gumball 3000 rally, driving a Lotus Esprit V-8. In August 22, 2002, he was seriously injured during a practice run at the Kentucky Speedway when his Indy Pro Series car crashed into a wall at nearly 180 miles per hour during practice. He was fortunate to make a quick and full recovery. He was nursed back to health by his then-girlfriend Naomi Lowde, whom he married in May 2005, on Paradise Island, in the Bahamas.
Priestley is a big fan of the band Barenaked Ladies and went to many of their California concerts in the early to mid-1990s. He eventually met the band and in his desire to help them succeed, suggested that he direct the music video for "The Old Apartment", and use his fame to persuade American stations to air it. He did just that, and also invited the band to play at the "Peach Pit After Dark" on an episode of 90210. Ed Robertson of the band cites him as instrumental in their American success. His final notable contribution to the band came when he directed a feature-length documentary about the band's 1999 whirlwind of success entitled Barenaked in America, intending to capture on film the fun he had while riding around on the tour bus with the band.
| Year | Title | Role | Other notes |
| 2006 | Made in Brooklyn | D.j. | |
| Hot Tamale | Jude | ||
| 2004 | National Lampoon's Going the Distance | Lenny Swackhammer | |
| Chicks with Sticks | Steve Cooper | ||
| 2003 | Die, Mommie, Die! | Tony Parker | |
| 2002 | Fancy Dancing | Asa Gemmil | |
| Time of the Wolf | Mr. Nelson | ||
| Cover Story | JC Peck | ||
| Cherish | Andrew | ||
| Darkness Falling | Michael Pacer | ||
| 2001 | The Fourth Angel | Davidson | |
| Double Down | David | ||
| 2000 | The Highwayman | Breakfast | |
| Herschel Hopper: New York Rabbit | Xavier | ||
| Lion of Oz | Lion | ||
| 1999 | Eye of the Beholder | Gary | |
| Standing on Fishes | Jason | ||
| Dill Scallion | Jo Joe Hicks | ||
| Choose Life | DJ | ||
| 1998 | The Thin Pink Line | Hunter Green | |
| Conversations in Limbo | |||
| 1997 | Hacks | The Dude | |
| Love and Death on Long Island | Ronnie Bostock | ||
| 1995 | Coldblooded | Cosmo Reif | |
| 1993 | Tombstone | Deputy Billy Breckinridge | |
| Calendar Girl | Roy Darpinian | ||
| 1989 | Nowhere to Run | Howard | |
| 1988 | Watchers | Boy on Bike | |
| 1986 | The Boy Who Could Fly | Gary |
- ^ Jason Priestley: First Look at My Daughter "Took My Breath Away". USmagazine.com. Retrieved on 2007-07-25.
