Mar 27, 1971

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

After working in several theatre, television and film productions, including the improvised soap opera Die-Nasty, Fillion moved to New York City in 1994 where he acted in the soap opera One Life to Live as Joey Buchanan, for which he was nominated in 1996 for a Daytime Emmy Award in the "Outstanding Younger Actor" category. In 1997, he left the series to pursue other projects. After moving to Los Angeles, he played a supporting role in the sitcom Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place. He was cast ... ... (read more...) as "the Minnesota Ryan" in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan.<br/><br/>

Fillion starred as Captain Malcolm Reynolds in the Joss Whedon science fiction television series Firefly (2002), for which he won the "Cinescape Genre Face of the Future - Male" award by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA. Fillion also won the SyFy Genre Awards in 2006 for Best Actor/Television and was runner-up for Best Actor/Movie. Fillion reprised his role as Reynolds in Whedon's movie Serenity (2005). He had a recurring role as Caleb in the final season of Whedon's series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.<br/><br/>

He has lent his voice to the animated series King of the Hill in 2001, the video game Jade Empire (as the voice of Gao the Lesser), and the animated series Justice League Unlimited (as Vigilante in the episodes "Hunter's Moon" and "Patriot Act") in 2005 and 2006.<br/><br/>

Having finished the James Gunn horror film Slither, the romantic comedy film Waitress is now in post-production. Fillion is currently filming White Noise 2: The Light.<br/><br/>

He is reportedly scheduled to appear in two episodes of the 2006-2007 season of the television show Lost. However, ABC and the creators of Lost have allegedly been releasing false spoilers.<br/><br/>

For his starring role as Bill Pardy in the feature film Slither, Nathan garnered a 2006 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards nomination in the category of "Dude You Don't Wanna Mess With".
In October of 2006 Nathan signed a talent holding contract with the Fox Broadcasting Company; he is slated to star in a television series yet to be developed. If Fox decides not to air the results, he will instead be cast in one of their existing programs.