Jason Priestley

Jason Priestley

Jason Bradford Priestley is a Canadian-American actor and director. He is best known as the virtuous Brandon Walsh on the television series Beverly Hills, 90210. He also starred as Richard Fitz in the show Call Me Fitz and as Matt Shade in the Canadian series Private Eyes. Priestley directed the 19th episode in the final season of 7th Heaven.

About Jason Priestley in brief

Summary Jason PriestleyJason Bradford Priestley is a Canadian-American actor and director. He is best known as the virtuous Brandon Walsh on the television series Beverly Hills, 90210. He also starred as Richard Fitz in the show Call Me Fitz and as Matt Shade in the Canadian series Private Eyes. Priestley has also made several films, his most notable role perhaps being in 1997’s Love and Death on Long Island, in which he played a teen idol struggling to be taken seriously as an actor. He directed the 19th episode in the final season of 7th Heaven. In 2009 Priestley directed and co-produced all 12 episodes of the Web series The Lake on TheWB. com. In December 2009 along with Dougray Scott, Brian Cox, and Eddie Izzard, Priestley was featured in The Day of the Triffids, written by Patrick Harbinson, whose credits include ER and Law & Order. In August 2011 Priestley joined the cast of sci-fi show Haven, in a recurring role during its final season and made two appearances in the second season.

In May 2016 Priestley began starring in the independent comedy Casper & Casfuss, starring Richard Dreyfuss & Tatiana Maslany. In April 2013 Priestley appeared in Canadian Stage’s production of Race, a David Mamet play, at the Bluma Appel Theater in Toronto. He was nominated for two Golden Globes for his work on the show. He became a naturalized American citizen in 2007. He has an older sister, actress Justine Priestley, and two step-siblings, Karin and Kristi. He played Todd, one of the foster children under the care of Sister Kate, an English nun, in the 1989 short-lived sitcom Sister Kate. He appeared in two episodes of 21 Jump Street in 1987–88, and played Blake, Earl’s better-looking and more successful cousin on My Name Is Earl.