Justin Hartley

Birth Date: January 29, 1977
Birth Place: Knoxville, Illinois, USA
Birth Name: Justin Hartley
Height: 6'3"

Justin Hartley is an American actor who is most popular for having portrayed the role of Fox Crane on the NBC daytime drama Passions from December 17, 2002 to February 10, 2006.

The second of four children, Hartley grew up in Orland Park, Illinois with older brother Nathan and younger sisters Megan and Gabriela. An avid basketball player, he also played soccer and baseball in high school. Hartley attended Southern Illinois University and the University of Illinois at Chicago, where in majored in theatre and history.

After work in commercials, Hartley originated the role of Nicholas Foxworth Crane, a spoiled, rich young man on the NBC soap opera Passions, where he and his character were fan favorites. It was on the set that he fell in love with co-star Lindsay Korman, who played his stepmother and one-time love interest. He married a very-pregnant Korman in May of 2004; their first child, Isabella Justice Hartley, was born just two months later.

In October 2005, Hartley announced that he had opted not to renew his contract with Passions after three years with the series. He taped his final episode on January 7 and last aired on February 10. Shortly after his departure from the soap, Hartley was tapped to replace Will Toale as Arthur "AC" Curry in The CW's eponymously titled drama based on DC comic book character Aquaman. The CW failed to pick up the show for fall 2006, though the show's pilot was released on iTunes.

Hartley currently has three movies due out in theatres, two of which are completed. Hartley stars as "Joe" in Race You to the Bottom, a film by writer/director Russell Brown; he also just completed a movie called Scorpio Men on Prozac, which he describes as a dark comedy. Hartley recently signed as the lead in Stewart St. John's newest movie, The Next Race (put on my StewdioMedia).