Ian Somerhalder

Ian Somerhalder

Ian Joseph Somerhalder is an American actor, model, activist and director. He is known for playing Boone Carlyle in the TV drama Lost, Damon Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries and Dr. Luther Swann in Netflix’s sci-fi horror series V Wars. He opposes factory farming, GMO foods and supports ecologist Allan Savory in his crusade to let cows graze with nature.

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Summary Ian SomerhalderIan Joseph Somerhalder is an American actor, model, activist and director. He is known for playing Boone Carlyle in the TV drama Lost, Damon Salvatore in The CW’s supernatural drama The Vampire Diaries and Dr. Luther Swann in Netflix’s sci-fi horror series V Wars. In April 2018, he was cast in the film Time Framed. He opposes factory farming, GMO foods and supports ecologist Allan Savory in his crusade to let cows graze with nature to enrich soil, enhance biodiversity, and reverse climate change. In 2011, he announced he was making a documentary about Savory with the goal of winning him a Nobel Prize for his work.

He has received several Teen Choice Award’s and a People’s Choice Award for his participation on the series. He was involved in the cleanup after the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling disaster on April 22, 2010. He also supports the St. Tammany Humane Society, an organization for animal shelter and welfare. He appears in the coffee table book About Face by celebrity photographer John Russo.