Dave Annable is an American actor best known for his starring role as Justin Walker on the television drama series Brothers & Sisters, from 2006-2011.
He also starred as Henry Martin, a member of the mayor's staff and an ambitious young attorney, on the supernatural drama series 666 Park Avenue, from 2012-2013.
An avid sports fan, Annable grew up in Walden, a small town in upstate New York, playing baseball, rugby and hockey. He attended college at SUNY Plattsburgh, where he was a member of PSTV (Plattsburgh State Television), and studied acting at the famed Neighborhood Playhouse in NY with Richard Pinter.
Annable moved to New York City to pursue his dream of becoming an actor. He booked a national Starburst commercial two months later and has since filmed six more national commercials.
He started acting and auditioning full time. Annable guest starred on a Third Watch episode and was booked for his first pilot (Other People's Money) shortly after.
He played Brittany Murphy's college boyfriend, Bean, in the studio feature Little Black Book and played Aaron Trumbill in the Tv series Reunion, a complex serial mystery spanning 13 years in which each episode revealed a yearly clue to a controversial murder.
Annable was seen in the New Regency romantic comedy film What's Your Number, with Anna Farris, directed by Mark Mylod, released in September 2011.
He also shot the comedy film You May Not Kiss the Bride, co-starring with Katharine McPhee, Mena Suvari, Rob Schneider, Kathy Bates, Tia Carrere and Vinnie Jones, and was seen in director Nick Hurran's film, Little Black Book.
In 2008 Annable participated in an all-star cast benefit of Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's Award-winning play, You Can't Take It With You. Directed by the late Nora Ephron, the cast included Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Martin Short, Annette Bening and William Shatner.
The one-night-only event benefited the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and played at the campus' Royce Hall.
Philanthropically Annable has been a supporter of Project A.L.S., and is an Ambassador for the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, as well as for Stand Up2 Cancer. He also is involved with The Art of Elysium, The V Foundation for Cancer Research, The USO and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Annable and his wife, actress Odette Yustman, were married in 2010. In 2007, People Magazine ranked him #7 in its annual list of Sexiest Men Alive. |
