Ash Adams
| Ash Adams | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Jason Adams February 7, 1964 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1984–present |
Jason Adams (born February 7, 1964), often known as Ash Adams, is an award-winning American independent filmmaker, producer, writer, and TV and movie actor.
Adams was born in Los Angeles and raised in Mailbu, where he still resides today. As a teenager, Adams took an early interest in filmmaking and acting, and staged several home movie productions in his backyard and in other natural surroundings, not unlike how other filmmaking and acting legends got their start. He attended the Desert Sun High School from 1978 to 1979, and later transferred to Malibu High School, of which he is a 1982 graduate.
By the time he was 20, Adams had already started making efforts to enter show business, and the connections he needed to break in. Jason formed a notable early relationship with actress Maree Cheatham, who eventually started passing his profile around to casting directors after she took a liking to his skill. One of the directors that responded was a casting agent for the inaugural installment of A Nightmare on Elm Street. Adams made his professional acting debut in the hit 1984 horror film, in a small role as an anonymous surfer.
Afterwards, Adams ramped up his auditions and prospects; in 1986, the casting director at ABC's Ryan's Hope announced that they were looking to cast an adult actor to take over the role of John Reid Ryan on the soap. Adams came in to read and won the part, of which he played from August 1986 until the show's final episode on January 13, 1989. His character had previously been a child for RH's first decade on the air (known as "Little John Ryan" and later "Johnno Ryan", and played from newborn stage to age 10 by Jadrien Steele, from 1975–1985). Adams is known for being one of the earliest soap actors brought into take over a role due to SORAS-ing (Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome).
Adams became noticed on the Hollywood scene in a major way during his years on Ryan's Hope, and after the soap ended in early 1989, he was in high demand for new ventures. ABC immediately cast him as the lead in a two-hour movie pilot they were considering to pick up as a weekly series, Thunderboat Row. Even though the movie was well received, it never became a series. This was followed by a guest shot on the syndicated revival of Adam-12, just before he was cast as François Gaultier in Lionheart (1990), alomgside Jean-Claude Van Damme. On the heels of Lionheart's success at the box office, Adams was catapulted into heavier movie roles in The Arc (1991), Original Intent (1992), the indie flick I'll Love You Forever..Tonight (1992), the cult horror favorite Puppet Master 4 (1993) and into an appearance in the short The Privilege Cage (1994). Occasionally during this time, Adams still turned up in some guest roles, including in two episodes of ABC's The Young Riders in 1990, playing Jeffrey Darnell.
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