Christian Vincent (actor)

For the French film director, see Christian Vincent (director).
Christian Vincent
Born (1980-02-09) 9 February 1980
Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Christian Vincent is a Canadian-American professional dancer, choreographer, actor and model. Christian's most notable role has been as Ricky on the former LOGO Viacom television series Noah's Arc, which chronicles the lives of four African-American best friends in Los Angeles.

Career

Vincent has also appeared in the films She's All That, Rent, Starsky & Hutch, and Sex Politics & Cocktails and the television series Smallville, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Arrested Development, MADtv, George Lopez, Baywatch and Cold Case. In 2006, he starred in the ABC Family miniseries Fallen as Michael the Archangel, Fringe and Continuum. He has also acted in a Bellsouth television commercial, as well as for Oral-B, and was a background dancer in Madonna's "Don't Tell Me" music video. He also appeared in Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom and Center Stage: Turn It Up.

Vincent has been on the reality TV show Dancing with the Stars and a co-starred on Canada Sings. Most recently Christian was the dance coach for Guillermo Del Toro's film The Shape of Water. He also appeared in the October 2012 issue of PMc Magazine by celebrity photographer Patrick McMullan.

In addition to his work in entertainment, Vincent is a professor at The Glorya Kaufman School of Dance at the University of Southern California. He is currently signed with Shakir Entertainment Management in New York City. Christian will co star in the 2018 thriller Conundrum: Secrets among friends, as first reported by Deadline Hollywood.

Personal

While growing up in Windsor, Ontario, in grade school he attended Sandwich West Public School in LaSalle, Ontario. Vincent had several interests as a child, ranging from karate to painting and drawing. He later discovered his passion for dance and eventually enrolled at Butler University, where he received his BFA degree, with cum laude honours. He later moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a dancer and choreographer. As a dancer/choreographer, Vincent has toured and performed with Madonna, Ashanti, Gloria Estefan, Ricky Martin, Shakira, and Britney Spears. Vincent has also choreographed several commercials for Target and Kellogg's.

Vincent lives in Los Angeles, California.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Christian Vincent Is Not Ricky Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine.. keithboykin.com. 23 August 2006.


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