Ryan Douglas Hurst (born June 19, 1976) is an American actor, known
for his roles as Gerry Bertier in Disney's Remember the Titans (2000),
Sgt. Ernie Savage in We Were Soldiers (2002), Tom Clarke in Taken
(2002), Opie Winston in the FX drama series Sons of Anarchy
(2008â€"2012), Chick Hogan in Bates Motel (2015â€"2017), Li'l "Foster"
Farrell in Outsiders (2016â€"2017), Beta in The Walking Dead
(2019â€"2020), and Hector Bonner in Bosch (2019â€"present).Hurst was
born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Candace Kaniecki, an
acting coach, and Rick Hurst, an actor. He attended Santa Monica High
School. He converted to Sikhism and his Sikh name is Gobind Seva
Singh.Growing up in a Hollywood family, Hurst made a very early start
in show business, with a recurring role in the NBC teen situation
comedy series Saved by the Bell: The New Class. In the 1998 epic war
film Saving Private Ryan, Hurst portrayed Mandelsohn, a paratrooper
who, despite a temporary hearing loss, is able to communicate to
Captain John H. Miller (Tom Hanks) the approximate location of Private
Ryan. Additionally, he appeared in the war film We Were Soldiers
(2002) as Sgt. Ernie Savage, played the football player Lump Hudson in
the black comedy thriller film The Ladykillers (2004), and starred in
the TNT police drama series Wanted (2005). From 2005 to 2007, Hurst
gained recognition for portraying the recurring role of Allison
DuBois' half-brother, Michael Benoit, in NBC's supernatural procedural
drama series Medium.
for his roles as Gerry Bertier in Disney's Remember the Titans (2000),
Sgt. Ernie Savage in We Were Soldiers (2002), Tom Clarke in Taken
(2002), Opie Winston in the FX drama series Sons of Anarchy
(2008â€"2012), Chick Hogan in Bates Motel (2015â€"2017), Li'l "Foster"
Farrell in Outsiders (2016â€"2017), Beta in The Walking Dead
(2019â€"2020), and Hector Bonner in Bosch (2019â€"present).Hurst was
born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Candace Kaniecki, an
acting coach, and Rick Hurst, an actor. He attended Santa Monica High
School. He converted to Sikhism and his Sikh name is Gobind Seva
Singh.Growing up in a Hollywood family, Hurst made a very early start
in show business, with a recurring role in the NBC teen situation
comedy series Saved by the Bell: The New Class. In the 1998 epic war
film Saving Private Ryan, Hurst portrayed Mandelsohn, a paratrooper
who, despite a temporary hearing loss, is able to communicate to
Captain John H. Miller (Tom Hanks) the approximate location of Private
Ryan. Additionally, he appeared in the war film We Were Soldiers
(2002) as Sgt. Ernie Savage, played the football player Lump Hudson in
the black comedy thriller film The Ladykillers (2004), and starred in
the TNT police drama series Wanted (2005). From 2005 to 2007, Hurst
gained recognition for portraying the recurring role of Allison
DuBois' half-brother, Michael Benoit, in NBC's supernatural procedural
drama series Medium.
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