Favorite Birthday Boy #1 for June 9th

 Andrew W. Walker
From:  Favorite Hunks & Other Things

 Canadian actor and hottie Andrew W. Walker turns 35 today.

 Andrew W. Walker (born June 9, 1979) is a Canadian actor and producer. His film debut was in the film The Score (2001), which triggered the American TV series Maybe It's Me, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and Hot Properties. He also starred alongside Academy Award-nominated actor David Strathairn in Steel Toes (2006) which won him an ACTRA best actor award in (2008). He subsequently worked on films such as The Mountie, The Gundown and had a role on the Lifetime cop drama Against the Wall.

 Andrew was born in Montreal, Canada, the son of Joyce Walker, a librarian, and Bruce Walker, a school administrator. His sister is actress and model Jenimay Walker. He is a graduate of Vanier College, where he played football and was given a full scholarship to play at Boston College. After his commitment to BC, he returned home to spring camp at Vanier and tore his anterior cruciate ligament during a routine drill, thus ending his football career.

 He is married to Cassandra Troy, a local Montrealer.

 Andrew started his acting career in Montreal as a recurring lead on the series Student Bodies in 1996-1997, a series lead on Back to Sherwood and then Radio Active 1998-2000. A month after he arrived in Hollywood he booked a series lead on the TV show Maybe It's Me, then Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. Following a holding deal at Warner Bros. he worked on Wicked Minds, Adopted, Lies and Deception and then found himself a recurring character spot on the short-lived ABC comedy Hot Properties.

 In 2006 he starred opposite Academy Award nominee, David Strathairn, playing a Neo-Nazi skinhead in the film Steel Toes. His performance won him a 2006 Phillip Borsos award at the Whistler Film Festival and the 2008 ACTRA Best-Actor Award. Walker appeared in the movie Abducted, then garnered momentum guest starring on ER, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Without a Trace and The Big Bang Theory.

 In 2010, he guest starred in the Fox comedy series Sons of Tucson, starred in the historic Canadian film The Mountie, spaghetti western The Gundown and was associate producer on the film Dug Up. In 2011, producing four documentaries and reality TV series in development, Walker was a series lead on Lifetime's cop drama Against the Wall which has been cancelled.