Ashton Holmes

Ashton Holmes is an American actor, best known for the role of Jack Stall in A History of Violence, Private Sidney Phillips in the HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), Thom on the CW action-thriller series Nikita (2010–2011), and as Tyler Barrol on the ABC drama series Revenge (2011–2012).

Personal life Holmes was born in Albany, New York. His mother, Susan, is a social worker. At a young age he began taking acting lessons and appeared in community theater. He attended the Albany Academy. During his senior year of high school, he attended the intern program of the New York State Theater Institute.

Holmes was involved with the Albany music scene, and was the lead singer for local band Method of Groove. During this time, Holmes befriended Nyack, New York, band Coheed and Cambria, and began shopping around their demos to local indie labels. According to the Coheed and Cambria documentary Neverender: Children of The Fence Edition, in which Holmes appears, it was Holmes who eventually earned them their first record deal with Equal Vision Records.

Career In 2004, Holmes landed a 3-episode arc playing the character Greg Johnson in the daytime soap opera One Life to Live. In 2005 he starred in David Cronenberg's film A History of Violence. The next year, he had a recurring role on ABC's series Boston Legal. He also appeared in Peaceful Warrior in 2006, What We Do Is Secret and Normal Adolescent Behavior in 2007. In 2007 Holmes co-starred with Emily Blunt in the horror film Wind Chill. In 2008 he appeared in the comedy-drama film Smart People.

On television he appeared in episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Cold Case, Ghost Whisperer, Numbers, House, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

In 2010 Holmes played Sid Phillips in the HBO miniseries The Pacific. From 2010 to 2011, he starred as Thom in The CW series Nikita. From 2011 to 2012, he appeared as Tyler Barrol on the ABC drama series Revenge. On February 21, 2013, it was reported that Holmes was cast as Wyatt Bickford in the ABC drama pilot Reckless.

From 2002 to 2005, Holmes was also part of the Collins Tour company for Jonathan Larson's musical, Rent, in which he played one of the lead characters, Mark Cohen.

Filmography

Film Year Title Role Notes 2003 Raising Hell Zach Adler Direct-to-video 2005 A History of Violence Jack Stall 2006 Peaceful Warrior Tommy 2007 Wind Chill Guy 2007 Normal Adolescent Behavior Sean Mayer 2007 What We Do Is Secret Rob Henley 2008 Smart People James Wetherhold 2011 Adrien 2013 Cold Turkey Jacob 2014 Only Human Jason Lang 2016 Imperfections Alex 2018 Acts of Violence Roman

Television Year Title Role Notes 2003 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Davis Harrington Episode: "Soulless" 2004 One Life to Live Greg Johnson 3 episodes 2004 Cold Case Sean Morgan / Bobby Gordon (2004) Episode: "Maternal Instincts" 2005 Ghost Whisperer Kirk Jensen Episode: "Voices" 2006 Boston Legal Scott Little Recurring role 2008 Numbers Emerson Laidlaw Episode: "Scan Man" 2009 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Hank Episode: "Rock Star" 2009 House Scott Episode: "Both Sides Now" 2009 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Sam Trent Episode: "Better Off Dead" 2010 Sid Phillips Miniseries 2010–2011 Nikita Thom Main cast (season 1) 2011 Lie to Me Zach Morstein Episode: "Killer App" 2011–2012 Revenge Tyler Barrol Recurring role 2013 Supernatural Ephraim Episode: "Heaven Can't Wait" 2014 Criminal Minds Finn Bailey Episode: "Persuasion" 2017 Being Mary Jane Garrett Keswick Recurring 2018 Arrow Eric Cartier Jr. Episode: "The Dragon" 2020 Bosch Roger Dillon Episodes: "Copy Cat," "Dark Sacred Night"