Justin Chatwin

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Born

October 31, 1982 · Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

Justin Chatwin is a Canadian actor and avid outdoors man, traveler, sailor, and spear fisherman. The British Columbia native currently resides in Southern California. Although mostly known for his work as an actor, his passion sits with conservation, international motorcycle travel and the outdoors. Chatwin played the character of jimmy/Steve/jack on Showtime's Emmy nominated drama series "Shameless," which recently began filming its fifth season. The series, from John Wells and Paul Abbott, is based on the long-running hit UK series and also stars William H. Macy and Emmy Rossum. Chatwin first garnered recognition for his starring role in the in the USA miniseries, "Traffic," directed by Stephen Hopkins. Based on his performance in the program, Newsweek magazine singled him out as an "Actor to Watch." Additional television credits includes a recurring role on showtime "Weeds", "Orphan black", "Dr. who" And Steven Spielberg's re-telling of the H.G. Wells classic, War of the Worlds, in which he starred opposite Tom Cruise.