Tyler Blackburn

Tyler Jordon Blackburn (born October 12, 1986 ) is an American actor and singer. He is best known for playing Caleb Rivers on the hit Freeform series Pretty Little Liars and its spin-off, Ravenswood. He most recently starred as Alex Manes in The CW series Roswell, New Mexico (2019–2022).

Early life Blackburn was born in Burbank, California. He has one older sister and three younger brothers.

Blackburn has a 4 inch long scar on his left shoulder. This was caused due to the removal of a benign bone tumor at the age of 10.

Career

Acting Blackburn began performing in 2004 and appeared on the series Unfabulous on Nickelodeon. In the following year he was a teacher in the short film The Doers of Coming Deeds. In 2008, he made a cameo in the film Next of Kin. In 2009, Blackburn appeared in Cold Case and Rockville CA, a webseries launched by Josh Schwartz. In 2010, he appeared on Days of Our Lives, Gigantic, and was also in the independent film Peach Plum Pear.

In October 2010, Blackburn was cast in a recurring role as Caleb Rivers in the television series Pretty Little Liars. He was upgraded to series regular for the third season starting in the summer of 2012.

Blackburn also starred as Pete in the six-episode web series Wendy, a project developed by Alloy Entertainment and Macy's that was based on Peter Pan which premiered on September 15, 2011. In 2012, he starred in drama Hiding alongside Ana Villafañe, Jeremy Sumpter, Dean Armstrong and Dan Payne.

In May 2013, it was announced that Blackburn would star in the 2013 Pretty Little Liars spin-off Ravenswood.

In March 2018, Blackburn joined the cast of The CW series Roswell, New Mexico as Alex Manes, a character initially introduced as a love interest to Michael Vlamis's Michael Guerin. Blackburn remained a series regular on the show during its four-season run until it ended in 2022.

Music For his role in Alloy Entertainment web series Wendy, Blackburn recorded Golden State's "Save Me" to be used as the show's theme song, which was released on August 15, 2011. He recorded "Find a Way" in 2012 for the then ABC Family (now renamed Freeform) show, The Secret Life of the American Teenager. The song was also featured on ABC Family's other shows, including The Fosters and Pretty Little Liars, the latter of which Blackburn starred on.

Subsequently, Blackburn released an extended play titled "Find My Way - EP" in 2013 which was released on Apple Music.

Blackburn has also recorded several songs with Novi, including a feature on Novi's song titled "Can't Love Me". The song was then featured in the twelfth episode of Roswell, New Mexico. on which Blackburn starred on during its four-season run. Blackburn also performed a song called "Would You Come Home" on the thirteenth episode of season two of Roswell, New Mexico as his character, Alex Manes.

Personal life Through an interview with The Advocate on April 19, 2019, Blackburn publicly came out as queer and bisexual, saying he had identified as bisexual since he was a teenager, but that biphobia had contributed to him suppressing his feelings towards men until his late 20s.

Filmography

Film Year Title Role Notes 2006 The Doers of Coming Deeds Solly Katz Short film 2008 Next of Kin French Student 2010 The Tudor Tutor Toby Short film 2011 Peach Plum Pear Jesse Pratt 2012 Hiding Jesse Direct-to-video 2013 You & Me Young William Short film 2016 Love Is All You Need? Ryan Morris 2017 Hello Again Jack (The Young Thing)

Television Year Title Role Notes 2006 Unfabulous Nathan 2 episodes 2009 Cold Case Jeff Feldman / Foster Episode: "Witness Protection" 2010 Days of Our Lives Ian 17 episodes 2010 Gigantic Echo Episode: "Bye Bye Baby" 2011–2017 Pretty Little Liars Caleb Rivers Recurring role (seasons 1–2), main role (seasons 3–7); 124 episodes 2013–2014 Ravenswood Caleb Rivers / Original Caleb Main role 2019–2022 Roswell, New Mexico Alex Manes Main role 2019 Charmed Viralis Episode: "Surrender" 2019 Capsized: Blood in the Water Brad Cavanagh Television film

Web Year Title Role Notes 2009 Rockville CA Spencer Episode: "Shoegazed" 2011 Wendy Pete Main role; 9 episodes

Discography

Extended play Title EP details Find a Way Released: November 5, 2013 Formats: Digital download Label: International Family Entertainment

Singles

As main artist Title Year Album "Find a Way" 2012 Find a Way"Would You Come Home"2020Roswell New Mexico

As featured artist Title Year Album "Long Day" (Novi featuring Tyler Blackburn) 2017 "Can't Love Me" (Novi featuring Tyler Blackburn) 2019

Promotional singles Title Year Album "Hard to Forget" (with Anabel Englund) 2012 Find a Way and Anabel Englund

Music videos Title Year Other artist(s) Director(s) Ref. As main artist "Save Me" 2011 "Hard to Forget" 2012 Anabel Englund Hannah Lux Davis As featured artist "Long Day" 2017 Novi Quinn Starr

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Nominated work Result Refs 2014 Teen Choice Awards Choice Summer TV Star: Male Pretty Little Liars 2015 Teen Choice Awards Choice Summer TV Star: Male Pretty Little Liars 2016 Teen Choice Awards Choice TV Actor: Drama Pretty Little Liars Choice TV: Chemistry (shared with: Ashley Benson) Pretty Little Liars