Alan Ritchson was born in 1984 and he is a singer, model and actor of American citizenship. He came to fame when he started to model and when he was portraying superhero Aquaman at Smallville of The CW. He was Thad Castle in Blue Mountain State of Spike TV. In The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, he was Ritchson, in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, he was Raphael, the same for the sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows. He was Adam in Champion of the Earth and he played in Lazer Team in Rooster Teeth.
From his biography, Alan Ritchson was born in the state of North Dakota in the city of Grand Forks. He is the son of Vickie who was a high school teacher and to David Ritchson who is a retired U.S Air force Chief master sergeant. He was born with three brothers and he is the middle one, the oldest is Eric and Brian is the youngest. When he was still young, the family went to live in Illinois in the city of Rantoul. When he was 10, the family settled in Niceville, in Florida and he went to Niceville High School where he graduated in 2001. In the interview with Da Man magazine in 2013, he said that he got the full scholarship on music. This is in 1999 until 2003 when he was a dual enrollment student and he graduated with the Associate of Arts Degree from Okaloosa Walton Community College and now it is Northwest Florida State College. During that time, he became the member of Fine arts division for Madrigal Singers and Soundsations.
Alan Ritchson started the modeling career in the Abercrombie and Fitch catalogue. He was the model of underwear for the online underwear store called internationaljock.com. In the year 2008, he got signed to the Los Angeles Agency under Vision Model Management and he appeared at N2N Bodywear. In 2009, he made the final appearance for the modeling career under Abercrombie and Fitch.
His first TV appearance was on American Idol, he was in 87 contestants for its third season and it helped him to get a cut into Hollywood. The appearance at the show got noted because of his striptease and in one of the episode; he wooed Paula Abdul who was one of the judges. Besides television and film work, he was also in the independent album known as This is Next Time and in Orbit Gum, a Russian commercial.
Alan Ritchson is married to catherine ritchson. He has been with his wife for over a decade since they got married in 2006. They have already 3 children together. His workout is based on the running program while he dedicated some time on high intensity sprints. Other workouts are polymetric exercise and Tabata-Style program. His net worth is 3 million dollars.
Birth Date: | 28 Nov, 1984 |
Age: | 35 yrs |
Citizenship: | United States of America |
Birth Place: | Grand Forks |
Education: | Niceville High School Northwest Florida State College |
Gender: | Male |
Description: | American actor |
Twitter Id: | Alanritchson |
Net Worth 2021: | 3 million |