Kevin Sorbo

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Biography

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Birth

Birth:

Date: 24 SEP 1958

Place: Mound, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA

Source:

Note: Biography from his Wikipedia article: Sorbo was born in Mound, Minnesota, where he attended Mound Westonka High School. He is the son of Ardis, a nurse, and Lynn Sorbo, a junior high school mathematics and biology teacher. He is of Norwegian descent and was raised in a Lutheran family. Sorbo attended Minnesota State University Moorhead and worked as a model for print and television advertising in the 1980s. Sorbo started his acting career in the late 1980s making guest appearances in several television series such as 1st & Ten, Murder She Wrote and The Commish. In 1994, he shot to fame for playing the role of Hercules in the television film Hercules and the Amazon Women. This was the first in a series of television films that served as pilots for the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys which ran from 1995 to 1999. He also guest-starred as Hercules in episodes of the spin-off series Xena:Warrior Princess and provided the voice of Hercules in the animated film Hercules and Xena - The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus which released in 1998. Other voice over work followed, with Sorbo providing the voices of Reiko and Quan Chi in Mortal Kombat 4. In between the years playing Hercules, he played his first leading film role in Kull the Conqueror (1997). After Hercules came to an end, he played the starring role of Captain Dylan Hunt in the science-fiction drama series Andromeda from 2000 to 2005. In 2006, he played a recurring role on the final season of The O.C and guest-starred in the sitcom Two and a Half Men. In 2007, he appeared in the direct-to-video film Walking Tall: The Payback which is a sequel to the 2004 film Walking Tall. He reprised his role in the second sequel Walking Tall: Lone Justice which released later that year. He also starred in the Lifetime Channel film Last Chance Café, the Hallmark Channel film Avenging Angel, co-starring his real life wife Sam Sorbo and guest starred as a bounty hunter in the season two episode "Bounty Hunters!" of the series Psych. Most recently, he has appeared in the spoof film Meet the Spartans which was a box office success, despite being universally negatively reviewed by critics. He starred in the Albert Pyun directed SciFi Vampire flick Tales of the Ancient Empire. Sorbo married actress Sam Jenkins, whom he met when she had a guest role on Hercules, on January 5, 1998. They have three children. He is also the spokesman and chair of A World Fit For Kids! (AWFFK!), a non-profit organization that trains teenagers to become mentors to younger children.

User ID

User ID: 13335F01308841CA8090EDA28EEEB08FC3C1

Occupation

Occupation: actor

Note

Note: Kevin Sorbo as Hercules

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Marriage

Husband: Kevin David Sorbo

Wife: Sandra Carol Jenkins

Child: Braedon Cooper Sorbo

Relationship to Father: Natural

Relationship to Mother: Natural

Child: Shane Haaken Sorbo

Relationship to Father: Natural

Relationship to Mother: Natural

Child: Octavia Flynn Sorbo

Relationship to Father: Natural

Relationship to Mother: Natural

Marriage:

Date: 5 JAN 1998

Place: Pacific Palisades, California, USA^[1]

Unknown was born about 1970.

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S-1495950197

• Wikipedia:Kevin_Sorbo

• Wikidata: Item Q313655, en:Wikipedia

• Source: S-1495950197 Title: , "Husband Power: Hollywood Wives Reveal What Keeps Their Mates in the Swing at Every Stage of Married Life," People Magazine, 15 Nov 1999, People Magazine, People.com (www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20129764,00.html : accessed )

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Sorbo-3 created through the import of Dean - German 2012-03-09.ged on Mar 9, 2012 by Michael Dean. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Michael and others.