Daniel Lissing | |
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Born |
Daniel Aaron Lissing 4 October 1981 Sydney, Australia |
Nationality | Dutch Australian |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 2006–present |
Daniel Lissing is an Australian actor. He played Conrad De Groot in Crownies in 2011. The following year, he appeared in American military drama Last Resort. Since January 2014, Lissing has starred as Jack Thornton in When Calls the Heart.
In 2006, he appeared as a guest in the successful Australian series Home and Away where he played the firefighter Dave Elder.
In 2011, he joined the cast of the series Crownies where he played Conrad De Groot, the fiancé of the lawyer Tatum Novak (Indiana Evans), until the end of the series the same year. The same year he appeared in the movie Entwined where he played Aiden.
In 2012, it was announced that he would join the cast of the American series Last Resort as James King, a petty officer of the U.S Navy, and a Navy SEAL. In the series he appeared with Andre Braugher, Scott Speedman, Autumn Reeser and Daisy Betts.
That same year he joined the cast for the movie The Cure where he played the role of Ryan Earl, a member of a research team that he feels he deserves greater recognition and fame.
Since 2014, Lissing has appeared in the Hallmark Channel series When Calls the Heart as Canadian Mountie Jack Thornton.
In 2016, Lissing appeared alongside Jessica Lowndes in Hallmark Channel's A December Bride as the character Seth.