Sebastian Stan

Sebastian Stan

Sebastian Stan is a Romanian-American actor. He gained wide recognition for his role as Bucky BarnesWinter Soldier in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. On television, he has played Carter Baizen in Gossip Girl, Prince Jack Benjamin in Kings, Jefferson in Once Upon a Time, and T. J. Hammond in Political Animals.

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Summary Sebastian StanSebastian Stan is a Romanian-American actor. He gained wide recognition for his role as Bucky BarnesWinter Soldier in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. On television, he has played Carter Baizen in Gossip Girl, Prince Jack Benjamin in Kings, Jefferson in Once Upon a Time, and T. J. Hammond in Political Animals. In 2015, he co-starred in Jonathan Demme’s comedy-drama Ricki and the Flash and Ridley Scott’s science fiction film The Martian. In 2017, he portrayed Jeff Gillooly in the biopic I, Tonya. Stan was born in Constanța, Romania. He has stated that his parents divorced when he was two years old. When he was eight, Stan and his mother moved to Vienna, Austria, where Georgeta was employed as a pianist, following the Romanian Revolution.

Four years later, they moved to Rockland County, New York, after his mother married the headmaster of a school in the United States. He was accepted to and attended Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, which also gave him the opportunity to spend a year abroad studying acting at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, England. In 2012, he starred in the thriller Gone, the supernatural horror film The Apparition, and began a recurring role in Once upon a Time as the Mad Hatter. In 2013, Stan played Hal Carter in the Roundabout Theater Company’s production of William Inge’s Picnic at the American Airlines Theater in New York.