Eric Johnson: acting career

Eric Johnson - an actor born in Canada, is widely known to the American audience for the episodes of the series "Cops-recruits", where he played the role of Luke Callahanna.

Biography and the beginning of an acting career

Born Eric Johann Johnson August 7, 1979 near the city of Edminton, namely in the province of Alberta, a family of workers.

At the age of nine, the parents, noticing the potential of their child, gave the young man to the stage studio Stage Polaris. Even then, Eric Johnson had high hopes.

When the boy turned 15 years old, director Jim Harrison invited Erik to the role of young Brad Pitt in the film "Legends of Autumn". Johnson received his first major role in the film "Contempt", which appeared on the screen in 2000 and subsequently garnered many awards, and was also nominated for the Gemini Award (the most prestigious award of the Canadian film industry).

Next young novice actor in 2001 will be invited to shoot the sci-fi series "Secrets of Smallville," in which Eric Johnson will play the character Whitney Fordman.

Movies that brought glory

Further proposals came one after another. In 2007, he won a major role in the television series "Flash Gordon." Three years later, Eric was offered the lead role in the comedy drama "Mrs. Miracle in Manhattan".

Johnson tried himself in various roles. He played a detective in the police drama "Cops-recruits", and also was a bank robber.

In 2013, the famous director Stephen Soderbergh invited Eric to play one of the main roles in the medical drama "The Hospital of Knickerbocker."

Filmography Eric has several dozen movies and serials of various genres.

One of the last works of the actor are the films "Nanny with a surprise", "Collision" and the sensational painting of 2017 "On fifty shades darker," where he plays the head of Anastasey Jack Hyde.

In 2001, the actor received a prize for the best male lead in the drama.

Personal life

In 2001, after filming the series "Smallville's Secrets", Eric Johnson met Adria Bald, who at that time was the assistant to the famous American actress Annette O'Toole. In 2004, the couple married, three years after the wedding, Erik and Adria had a daughter, Kellu Praore Johnson.

At the moment, Adria Bald built a successful career as a screenwriter and producer. Eric Johnson himself continues his professional acting career, at the time of 2017 he turned 37 years old.

We wish more good roles to this talented actor, we hope to see Eric Johnson more often on our screens.