Cameron Mathison Biography

Cameron Arthur Mathison (born August 25, 1969) is a Canadian actor and television host, perhaps best known for his role as Ryan Lavery on All My Children — a role which he played from December 15, 1997 to 2002, and from 2003 to 2011.

Early life and career

Cameron Mathison was born on August 25, 1969 in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, the younger of two boys and he has one brother, Scott Mathison. At an early age, he was diagnosed with Perthes disease, and spent nearly four years with braces on his legs. As a result of early treatment, Mathison has avoided the arthritis that is usually representative of Perthes disease cases. Mathison attended Thornlea Secondary School in Thornhill, Ontario and McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. He graduated in 1993 with a Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering.

Mathison made his feature film debut in 54. He followed up this appearance with a leading role in the Canadian independent movie Washed Up. Around this time, he was hired to play the role of Ryan Lavery on All My Children in December 1997, filming his first scenes on December 15. Mathison first appeared on-screen in the January 12, 1998 episode.

Mathison won the Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Male Newcomer in 1999 and earned Daytime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in 2002 and 2005. In 2000, Mathison was named by People magazine as one of America's 100 most eligible bachelors. At this time he is a co-host of Instant Beauty Pageant which is on the Style Network. On November 15"16, 2008, Mathison headlined the final ABC Super Soap Weekend in place of All My Children costar Susan Lucci, who will be competing on the seventh season of Dancing With The Stars.

As of January 15, 2009, Mathison has signed on as a correspondent for Good Morning America. As of January 2010, he portrays Dr. Dan as part of a series of Brighten Bay soap parody shorts advertising for Cheer laundry detergent. On March 21, 2011, he portrayed Vince Bowers in the episode "One Life to Lose" Season 3 (Episode 18) of "Castle" on ABC. His All My Children co-star Rebecca Budig also guest stars in the episode as Mandy Bronson.

He also hosted the reality show, I Wanna Be a Soap Star, as he has since its 2004 debut on SoapNet, and the game show Your Place or Mine?, which debuted in June 2008 on TLC. Mathison was featured as a celebrity dancer on the fifth season of ABC's Dancing With The Stars, where he and his professional partner, Edyta ?liwi"?ska, were eliminated just one week shy of the semifinals. He serves as a special correspondent for the television show Extra, and co-hosted the 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards in 2008.

Mathison hosts an online Dallas after show after every new episode of Dallas on its website.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Any Mother's Son	Rich Eastman	TV Movie
1998	The Defenders: Choice of Evils	Mike Murphy	TV Movie
1998	54	Atlanta
2000	Washed Up	Conman
2003	See Jane Date	Gary Babcock	TV Movie
2012	The Wife He Met Online	Bryant Meyers	TV Movie
2013	The Surrogate	Jacob Kelly
2013	The Carpenter's Miracle	Josh Camden	TV Movie
2013	Home Again	Carter

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	F/X: The Series	Masked Man	Episode: "House of Horrors"
1998-2011	All My Children	Ryan Lavery
2002	The Job	Brad	Episode: "Telescope"
2002	The Drew Carey Show	Kirk	Episode: "Kate's Wedding"
2003	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Danny Pasqualle	Episode: "Recipe for Murder"
2003	JAG	Lt. Stanley Mitchell	Episode: "Empty Quiver"
2003	What I Like About You	Noah	Episode: "The Fix Up"
2004	Hope & Faith	Dillon Smith	3 episodes
2011	Castle	Vince Powers	Episode: "One Life to Lose"
2012	Desperate Housewives	Greg	Episode: "What's the Good of Being Good"
2012	Drop Dead Diva	Jonah Pierce	Episode: "Pick's and Pakes"
2013	Hot in Cleveland	Bill	Episode: "The Anger Games"
2013	Belle's	PR Rep	Episode: "One Big Happy Family"

Personal life

On July 27, 2002, Mathison married model Vanessa Arevalo. They have two children: son Lucas Arthur Mathison, born on April 20, 2003, and a daughter, Leila Emmanuelle Mathison, born on July 7, 2006. They currently live in California. They also have developed a children's clothing line.