Early life

Kane was born in Dallas, Texas. He is of Native American descent. His parents participated in, and met at, the rodeo. The family moved around the South and the Midwest because his father was in the oil business, and they finally settled in Norman, Oklahoma, when Kane was in eighth grade. While growing up in Texas and Oklahoma, Kane was a collegiate-style wrestler and played football (as a strong safety). He studied art history at the University of Oklahoma, but decided he wanted to be an actor and headed to Los Angeles before finishing the degree. In Los Angeles, he worked at a talent management company, where he delivered scripts in exchange for getting acting jobs.

Career

Acting

Kane landed his first acting role in 1997 as one of the leads in MGM's television series Fame L.A. playing a country singer who moved to Los Angeles from Kansas. His television roles have included a recurring role in Joss Whedon’s Angel as the lawyer Lindsey MacDonald, the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced series Close to Home on CBS, the TNT television film Crossfire Trail in which he appeared alongside Tom Selleck, and the role of Abe Wheeler in the Steven Spielberg-produced 2005 miniseries Into the West. He starred with singer Monica, as Billy Ryan in MTV movie Love Song in 2000.

Kane’s appearances on the big screen include the 20th Century Fox film Just Married and New Line Cinema's Secondhand Lions (as the younger version of Robert Duvall's Hub McCann, he has a scar on his upper lip from an injury he received while filming the movie). He also appeared in Taxi, Life or Something Like It, the Peter Berg-directed Friday Night Lights, and the Warner Bros. baseball film Summer Catch.

In 2007, Kane was featured in the Carrie Underwood music video "So Small", playing the role of one of the three converging stories. In 2009, he appeared in the psychological thriller, Hide, in which he played the lead role of Billy, and The Donner Party which is based on the true story of the Donner Party. In 2010, he starred in the romantic drama, Not Since You.

From 2008 to 2012, Kane appeared on the TNT television series Leverage. He did his own stunts and fights as Eliot Spencer, a retrieval specialist and black ops soldier who teams up with four other specialists to undo the injustices perpetrated upon the helpless.

In 2013, Kane appeared as JT Maxwell, brother to Rebecca Romijn's female lead Michelle Maxwell on TNT's King & Maxwell. He appeared again with Romijn in the 2014 TNT television series The Librarians, based on the The Librarian film series.

Music

In 1997, Kane met Steve Carlson, who had taken over his old job. They started writing songs together, and in 1998 formed the Southern rock band Kane. They have toured the U.S., as well as England and Germany. The band has self-released two albums, their self-titled debut, Kane, in 2000, and a recording of a live acoustic set, Acoustic Live In London! in 2004.

The band consists of Kane (lead vocals, guitar), Carlson (rhythm guitar, backing vocals), Jason Southard (lead guitar), Will Amend (bass guitar), and Ryan Baker (drums) and is signed to independent record label Bigger Picture Group. Their label debut, The House Rules, was released December 7, 2010. It debuted at no. 1 on the Billboard Heatseekers album chart and no. 25 on the Country Albums chart. The album was produced by Bob Ezrin and Jimmie Lee Sloas.

The first single from the album, also titled "The House Rules", debuted at no. 54 on the Billboard Country Songs chart and was the seventh-most added song on Mediabase Country stations on its official impact date. The video for the single was directed by Timothy Hutton and premiered on CMT's Big New Music Weekend October 1, 2010. "The House Rules" was featured in the video game NASCAR 09. The second single, "Let Me Go", was released on July 11, 2011. The video for the single, directed by Roman White, premiered on CMT August 8, 2011 and reached no. 1 on their Today's Top Videos chart .

Kane is also signed to a songwriting deal with EMI Music Publishing and writes much of his own material. Trace Adkins released a song written by Kane called "Happy Man" on his 2010 album, Cowboy's Back in Town.

Kane's co-writing efforts include songs written with Blair Daly, Brett James, David Lee Murphy, Casey Beathard, and Jerrod Niemann. "Thinking of You", a song he co-wrote with Blair Daly, featured in episode 3X06, "The Studio Job", of Leverage.

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997-1998	Fame L.A.	Ryan "Flyboy" Legget	Recurring role (21 episodes)
1999	Rescue 77	Wick Lobo	Recurring role (8 episodes)
1999-2004	Angel	Lindsey McDonald	Recurring role (21 episodes)
2001	Dawson's Creek	Nick Taylor	Guest star (Episode: "The Tao of Dawson")
2004	Las Vegas	Bob	Guest star (Episode: "The Strange Life of Bob")
2005	Into the West	Abe Wheeler/High Wolf	TV miniseries
2005-2006	Close to Home	Jack Chase	Main cast
2008-2012	Leverage	Eliot Spencer	Main cast
2013	King & Maxwell	JT Maxwell	Guest star (Episode: "Family Business")
2014-present	The Librarians	Jacob Stone	Main cast

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	EDtv	P.A.
2000	The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy	Idaho guy
2000	Love Song	Billy Ryan Gallo
2001	Crossfire Trail	John Thomas "J.T." Langston
2001	Summer Catch	Dale Robin
2002	Life or Something Like It	Cal Cooper
2003	The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron	Brian Cruver	Television film
2003	Just Married	Peter Prentiss
2003	Secondhand Lions	Young Hub
2004	The Plight of Clownana	Christian	Short film
2004	Taxi	Agent Mullins
2004	Friday Night Lights	Brian
2005	Her Minor Thing	Paul
2005	Keep Your Distance	Sean Voight
2006	Four Sheets to the Wind	David
2008	Hide	Billy
2009	Not Since You	Ryan Roberts
2011	Good Day for It	Dale Acton
2011	Universal Squadrons	Peacemaker
2014	50 to 1	Mark Allen
2014	All Stars	Jim Hall
2015	Tinkar	Boudreaux	post-production
2015	Heaven Sent	Billy Taylor	post-production

Video game

Year	Title	Voice role
2006	24: The Game	Peter Madsen

Discography

Soundtrack

Title	Song(s) featured
Angel (2001)	"L.A. Song"
Life or Something Like It (2002)	"Sweet Carolina Rain" (as KANE)
The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron TV (2003)	"More Than I Deserve" (as KANE)
Just Married (2003)	"The Chase" (as KANE)
Leverage — "The Two Horse Job" (2008)	"More Than I Deserve" (as KANE)
NASCAR 09 (2009)	"The House Rules" (as Christian Kane)
Keep Your Distance (2005)	"Right In Front Of You" (as Sean Voight/KANE)
Leverage — "The Studio Job" (2010)	"Thinking of You"

Studio albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		US Country	US	US Heat
Kane	Release date: 2000 Label: self-released Formats: CD	—	—	—
The House Rules	Release date: December 7, 2010 Label: Bigger Picture Music Group Formats: CD, music download	25	178	1
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Extended plays

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		US Country	US	US Heat
Christian Kane	Release date: March 9, 2010 Label: Bigger Picture Music Group Formats: CD, music download	28	159	5

Live albums

Title	Album details
Acoustic Live In London!	Release date: 2004 Label: self-released Formats: CD

Singles

Year	Single	Peak positions	Album
		US Country
2010	"The House Rules"	49	The House Rules
2011	"Let Me Go"	58

Music videos

Year	Video	Director
2010	"The House Rules"	Timothy Hutton
2011	"Let Me Go"	Roman White

[ Source: Wikipedia ]