Kevin David Sorbo is an actor from the United States. He starred in two television shows, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Andromeda, as Hercules and Captain Dylan Hunt, respectively. Sorbo is well recognized for his roles in God's Not Dead and Let There Be Light both Christian drama films.
Kevin Sorbo was born on September 24, 1958, in Mound, Minnesota, where he attended the Mound Westonka High School. Ardis, a nurse, and Lynn Sorbo, a junior high school mathematics and biology teacher. His family raised him in a Lutheran household. After graduating from high school, Sorbo attended Minnesota State University Moorhead, where he completed his studies in two different majors, marketing and advertising.
To pay his tuition fees, Sorbo started working in the mid-1980s as a print and television advertising model. He appeared in over 150 commercials by 1993.
Sorbo married Sam Jenkins on January 5, 1998. Sam Jenkins was also an actress, and the two met in 1997 when she had a guest role on Hercules. The couple gave birth to three children, Braedon Cooper (born 2001), Shane Haaken (born 2004), and Octavia Flynn (born 2005).
Kevin Sorbo started receiving his first T.V. roles when he made guest appearances on shows like "1st & Ten", "Murder She Wrote," and "The Commish." He tried out for some high-profile roles, but those roles went to Dean Cain for Superman in "Superman in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures" and David Duchovny for Agent Mulder in "X-Files." Sorbo appeared in a top-rated series of international T.V. ads for the bourbon whiskey "Jim Beam" that started to raise his fame.
In 1994, Sorbo got the leading role of the Ancient Greek hero Hercules in the television film "Hercules and the Amazon Women," which was the first of a series of television films which aired during that same year, with the fifth and final film "Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur" airing in November 1994. The success of these films led him to quickly get the role of Hercules in the television series "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys," which ran for six seasons and 111 episodes between January 1995 and November 1999. The series brought international popularity to Sorbo, and he also got the chance to direct two episodes and co-write one episode.
The success of this show spawned the popular spin-off series "Xena: Warrior Princess," in which Sorbo also guest-starred in two episodes. In 1998, he voiced Hercules in the spin-off direct-to-video animated film "Hercules and Xena – The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus."
During the years in which Sorbo was playing the role of Hercules, he got the chance to play his first leading film role in "Kull the Conqueror" (1997). When the T.V. series Hercules came to an end, Sorbo started playing in the starring part of Captain Dylan Hunt in the sci-fi drama series "Andromeda" (2000/2005). In 2006, he got a role in the final season of "The O.C.," and he guest-starred in the popular sitcom "Two and a Half Men."
| Birth Date: | 24 Sep, 1958 |
| Age: | 61 yrs |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Mound |
| Education: | University of Minnesota Minnesota State University Moorhead |
| Gender: | Male |
| Description: | American actor, director and producer |
| Twitter Id: | Ksorbs |
| Spouse: | Sam Jenkins [M. 1998] |
| Net Worth 2020: | 10 million |
| Net Worth 2021: | 14 million |
