Early life

McPartlin was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Steve and Lois McPartlin. He was raised in Glen Ellyn, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago), and attended Glenbard South High School. McPartlin graduated with a degree in speech communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a member of the Illinois Fighting Illini football team as a walk-on tight end from 1993-95. McPartlin's older brother, Chris, was also a member of the Illinois football team, earning a varsity letter as a linebacker in 1994. After six months in Australia and New Zealand, McPartlin moved to Southern California to pursue acting as a career.

Career

McPartlin spent years as an Abercrombie & Fitch model. McPartlin's first acting role was on The Nanny with Fran Drescher as a Leonardo DiCaprio-type character in a Titanic spoof. McPartlin has been mostly known for his role as Hank Bennett on the popular soap opera Passions replacing Dalton James from April 2001 until June 2004 and made a brief appearance in the series L.A. 7 as Ryan.

McPartlin worked with Drescher again as Riley Martin on the television sitcom Living with Fran playing her much younger live-in boyfriend. Living with Fran was cancelled on May 17, 2006, after two seasons. McPartlin originally auditioned for the role of Clark Kent/Superman in the film Superman Returns, but lost the role to Brandon Routh.

McPartlin also played Devon "Captain Awesome" Woodcomb on NBC's Chuck from 2007 to 2012.

In mid-2011, McPartlin appeared in Sugarland's music video "Stuck Like Glue" as a man being stalked and abducted by lead singer Jennifer Nettles.

McPartlin appears in commercials for Kate Walsh's perfume "Boyfriend".

In March 2012, McPartlin began working with the website LiveLifeLocal to help promote active lifestyles and is filming a series of videos for the site.

In 2014, he portrayed the recurring roles of police detective Dwayne Freeman on Mystery Girls and Billy the fireman on Bad Judge.

Personal life

McPartlin is a certified personal trainer. He has been married to actress Danielle Kirlin since October 26, 2002 and has two sons, Wyatt Duke and Dylan James. McPartlin's hobbies include scuba diving, tennis, snowboarding and racquetball.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	King of the Ants	Straff
2006	Shadow Effect, TheThe Shadow Effect	Chaz Martini	Short film
2009	Super Capers	Will Powers
2010	Lego: The Adventures of Clutch Powers	Clutch Powers	Voice
2011	Game Time: Tackling the Past	Jake Walker	Television film
2011	J. Edgar	Lawrence Richey
2012	Holly's Holiday	Bo	Television film
2013	Right Kind of Wrong, TheThe Right Kind of Wrong	Danny
2013	Chance at Romance	Heath Madsen	Television film
2015	Heaven Sent	Sean Miller	In post-production
2015	You Cast a Spell on Me	Matt	aka A Kind of Magic
2015	The Flight Before Christmas	Michael Nolan	Television film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Nanny, TheThe Nanny	Performer #3	Episode: "Yetta's Letters"
1999	Odd Man Out	N/A	Episode: "Batman Forever"
2000	L.A. 7	Ryan Sinclar	Episode: "Mr Muscle"
2001	Three Sisters	Brad	Episode: "My Best Friend's Girl"
2001-04	Passions	Hank Bennett	Contract: April 24, 2001 - April 2004 Recurring: April - June 18, 2004
2003	According to Jim	Bob	Episode: "No Harm, No Fowl"
2004	Still Standing	Jeremy	Episode: "Still Flirting"
2004	North Shore	William	Episode: "Secret Service"
2005	What I Like About You	Riley Martin	Episode: "Girls Gone Wild"
2005-06	Living with Fran	Riley Douglas Martin	Main cast; 26 episodes
2006	Pepper Dennis	Grady Harper	Episode: "Charlie Babcock's Homosexual Encounter"
2007	CSI: NY	Terry Rockwell	Episode: "Obsession"
2007	Notes from the Underbelly	Hunter	Episode: "Mother's Milk"
2007-12	Chuck	Devon Woodcomb	Recurring, season 1; main cast, seasons 2-5; 70 episodes
2008	Swingtown	Luke	Episode: "Friends with Benefits"
2009	Mad Men	Gentleman	Episode: "Meditations in an Emergency"
2009	Everything She Ever Wanted	Tom Allanson	Miniseries; 2 episodes
2011	Friends with Benefits	Evan Macklam	Episode: "The Benefit of the Right Track"
2011	Community	Frisbee student #3	Episode: "Documentary Filmmaking: Redux"
2012	Hot in Cleveland	David	Episode: "Life with Lucci"
2012	CSI: Miami	Josh Avery	4 episodes
2012	Rizzoli & Isles	Dale Bowman	Episode: "Money Maker"
2012	Necessary Roughness	Ted	Episode: "Double Fault"
2013	I Hate My Teenage Daughter	Chris Reynolds	Episode: "Teenage Party"
2013-14	Hart of Dixie	Carter Covington	4 episodes
2014	Playing House	Steve	Episode: "Totes Kewl"
2014	Friends with Better Lives	Sam	Episode: "Cyrano de Trainer-Zac"
2014	Sequestered	Ryan	Main cast; 12 episodes
2014	Mystery Girls	Detective Dwayne Freeman	5 episodes
2014	Bad Judge	Billy	2 episodes
2016	Fuller House	Tyler	Episode: "Mad Max"

Web

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2012	Daybreak	Eric	5 episodes

Music videos

Year	Title	Artist
2010	"Stuck Like Glue"	Sugarland
2015	Give You What You Like	Avril Lavigne

[ Source: Wikipedia ]