Jason Priestley
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North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Born August 28th, 2969, Jason Priestley began his own career as a child actor in TV commercials. After dropping out of acting in his teens to concentrate on high-school sports, Priestley got back in the professional swim following graduation, accepting one-shot roles on such Canada-based TV series as 21 Jump Street. The young actor's first American TV assignment was the regular role of teen orphan Todd Mahaffey on the 1989 sitcom Sister Kate. Producer Aaron Spelling's daughter Tori spotted Priestley on Sister Kate and suggested that her father audition him for a role in the upcoming Fox series Beverly Hills 90210. Priestley was cast as Brandon Walsh, twin brother of the estimable Brenda (Shannen Doherty).Like many of his young series co-stars, Priestley was intent on laying the groundwork for life after 90210. Though his first major film role in Penny Marshall's Calendar Girl (1993) came and went without fanfare, he enjoyed some success as a 90210 director. Priestley encountered further success and even critical vindication with his turn as Ronnie Bostock, the B-movie hunk who steals John Hurt's heart in Love and Death on Long Island (1997). Critics warmed to Priestley's performance, noting that his days of idolatry had given him overly adequate preparation for his portrayal. Unlike other teen idols who rue the day when the fan mail will cease, Priestley once claimed he was happy that his idoldom seems to be on a downward slide: "It's like having a big cancerous lesion on your shoulder. Because people are fickle, man." On March 28, 2000, Priestley was undoubtedly happy that the limelight's glare had dimmed: Arrested for drunken driving after crashing his car into some trash cans, he was sentenced to five days in a Los Angeles jail. Legal troubles aside, Priestly continued to appear in films throughout the 2000s (Cherish, Die Mommie Die, Homicide: The Movie), and joined Joss Whedon's Tru Calling in the role of Jack Harper, a man determined that the dead not be revived by Tru. Television continued to be a superior medium for the actor who made guest appearances on My Name is Earl, What I Like About You, and Without a Trace. Priestly stars as corrupt used-car salesman Richard "Fitz" Fitzpatrick" in HBO Canada's Call Me Fitz, and is a recurring character on Haven, a supernatural television series from Syfy.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | Corações Destroçados |
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— | 2019 |
No Score Yet | V.C. Andrews' Fallen Hearts |
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— | 2019 |
No Score Yet | V.C. Andrews' Gates of Paradise |
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— | 2019 |
No Score Yet | V.C. Andrews' Dark Angel |
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— | 2019 |
No Score Yet | V.C. Andrews' Heaven |
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— | 2019 |
No Score Yet | RiverBlue |
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— | 2017 |
61% | Zoom |
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— | 2016 |
No Score Yet | Away from Everywhere |
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— | 2016 |
31% | Cas & Dylan |
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— | 2015 |
23% | Enter the Dangerous Mind |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Let's Rap |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Dear Santa |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | Goodnight For Justice |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | Bag of Bones |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | The Last Rites of Ransom Pride |
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— | 2010 |
No Score Yet | Expecting a Miracle (The Miracle of Dommatina) |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Courage |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | The Other Woman |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Don't Cry Now |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Luna: Spirit of the Whale |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Everest |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Termination Point |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Above and Beyond |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Sleep Murder |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Hot Tamale |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Masters of Horror |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Snow Wonder |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Chicks with Sticks (Hockey Mom) (Anyone's Game) |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Murder at the Presidio |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Colditz |
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— | 2005 |
0% | Going the Distance |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | I Want to Marry Ryan Banks |
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— | 2004 |
64% | Die Mommie Die! |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | The Fourth Angel (The 4th Angel) |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | Standing on Fishes |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | Fancy Dancing |
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— | 2002 |
51% | Cherish |
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$0.2M | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Cover Story (Ambition fatale) |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Darkness Falling |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Time of the Wolf |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Warning: Parental Advisory |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Double Down |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | Double Down |
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— | 2000 |
78% | Barenaked in America |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye |
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— | 2000 |
86% | Homicide: The Movie |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Common Ground |
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— | 2000 |
9% | Eye of the Beholder |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Lion of Oz and the Badge of Courage |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | The Highwayman |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Standing on Fishes |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Dill Scallion |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Beverly Hills 90210: Our Favorite Moments |
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— | 1998 |
87% | Love and Death on Long Island |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Sink or Swim |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Vanishing Point |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Coldblooded |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Choices of the Heart |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Cold Blooded |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story |
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— | 1995 |
74% | Tombstone |
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— | 1993 |
11% | Calendar Girl |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | For Our Children: The Concert |
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— | 1992 |
0% | Watchers |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Nowhere to Run |
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— | 1988 |
63% | The Boy Who Could Fly |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | Nobody's Child |
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— | 1986 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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Private Eyes
2016
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68% |
BH90210
2019
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No Score Yet |
The Chew
2011-2018
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83% |
The Joel McHale Show With Joel McHale
2018
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No Score Yet |
Van Helsing
2016-2019
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No Score Yet |
Saving Hope
2012-2016
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No Score Yet |
Rookie Blue
2010-2015
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No Score Yet |
Ties That Bind
2015
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79% |
Welcome to Sweden
2014-2015
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No Score Yet |
Nuits blanches à l'urgence
2014-2017
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No Score Yet |
The Night Shift
2014-2017
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No Score Yet |
Creative Galaxy
2014-2019
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No Score Yet |
Hot in Cleveland
2010-2015
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No Score Yet |
The View
1997
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39% |
Working the Engels
2014
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No Score Yet |
Chelsea Lately
2007-2014
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No Score Yet |
The Talk
2010
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63% |
Haven
2010-2015
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No Score Yet |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000-2015
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83% |
How I Met Your Mother
2005-2014
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No Score Yet |
Lopez Tonight
2009-2011
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89% |
Psych
2006-2014
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21% |
Stephen King's Bag of Bones
2011
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No Score Yet |
The Wendy Williams Show
2008-2020
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33% |
Scoundrels
2010
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No Score Yet |
90210
2008-2013
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No Score Yet |
The Secret Life of the American Teenager
2008-2013
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82% |
My Name Is Earl
2005-2009
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42% |
Tru Calling
2003-2005
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No Score Yet |
7th Heaven
1996-2007
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No Score Yet |
Medium
2005-2011
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No Score Yet |
Family Guy
1999
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85% |
Love Monkey
2006
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No Score Yet |
The Apprentice
2004-2017
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63% |
Masters of Horror
2005-2007
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No Score Yet |
Without a Trace
2002-2009
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No Score Yet |
What I Like About You
2002-2006
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13% |
Quintuplets
2004-2005
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56% |
8 Simple Rules
2002-2005
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47% |
Grosse Pointe
2000-2001
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66% |
Spin City
1996-2002
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No Score Yet |
Beverly Hills, 90210
1990-2000
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No Score Yet |
The Outer Limits
1995-2002
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No Score Yet |
Saturday Night Live
1975
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No Score Yet |
Quantum Leap
1989-1993
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No Score Yet |
Teen Angel
1989
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No Score Yet |
MacGyver
1985-1992
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No Score Yet |
Eek! The Cat
1997
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No Score Yet |
Side Order of Life
2007
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Quotes from Jason Priestley's Characters
The Voice: | I've been waiting for you for a long time. Oh, how I've waited for you. |
Jimmy Kowalski: | Yeah? Since when? Where? |
The Voice: | Oh, everywhere. Everywhere and since forever. Patiently. Patiently. That's the only way to wait for somebody. |