Brandon Routh

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Brandon Routh (2016)

Brandon James Routh [ ˈɹaʊˑθ ] (born October 9, 1979 in Des Moines , Iowa ) is an American actor . He became known as the title character Superman in the comic book adaptation of Superman Returns .

Life

youth

Brandon Routh was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1979 to carpenter Ron Routh and his wife, Katie, a schoolteacher. He grew up with two sisters and a brother and later moved his family to Norwalk . In high school , he excelled as a swimmer, soccer player, and lacrosse player, and appeared in several theatrical productions at the local Norwalk Theater of Performing Arts . After graduating from high school, he studied literature for a year at the University of Iowa before he decided to pursue a career as an actor. Earlier career aspirations included graphic designers and writers.

Private

Brandon Routh, whose ancestors came from Germany, England and France, has been married to his long-time girlfriend and fellow actor Courtney Ford since 2007 . The couple also appeared together in Joel Kelly's 15-minute short Denial , which Ford co-produced in 2006 . A boy born in August 2012 is the couple's first child to live in Los Angeles .

Career

Early career

Routh's first television role was an appearance on the You've Got Female episode of the short-lived ABC television series Odd Man Out in 1999 . In the same year he was also seen in the music video for Christina Aguilera's single What A Girl Wants . In 2000, Routh starred in the MTV television series Undressed - Who with whom? in four episodes of the third season Wade .

After a guest appearance on the 2001 episode Concertus Interruptus of the television series Gilmore Girls , Brandon Routh received a recurring role in the television series Love, Lies, Passion , in which he played Seth from May 23, 2001 to April 17, 2002 Anderson was seen. In 2003, she made a guest appearance in the episode Time of Hate from the crime series Cold Case - No Victim Is Ever Forgotten . 2004 Routh was in the episode The frustration boy the successful NBC - sitcom Will & Grace to see and also completed an appearance in the episode Dibs the second season of FOX -Sitcom Oliver Beene .

Superman representation

In November 2004 it was officially announced that Brandon Routh would take over from Christopher Reeve as Superman in the planned movie Superman Returns . Reeve portrayed the first superhero in comic history in four movies between 1978 and 1987 . Since then, however, due to the poor box office result of the last part Superman IV - The World Rested on the Abyss , the film studio Warner Bros. had tried for more than ten years with directors such as Tim Burton , Wolfgang Petersen , McG and Brett Ratner to stage a sequel . For the title role, in addition to Nicolas Cage , David Boreanaz , James Caviezel , Brendan Fraser , Josh Hartnett , Ashton Kutcher , Jude Law , Jerry O'Connell , Jared Padalecki , Ian Somerhalder , Paul Walker and Tom Welling , Superman actors of the TV series Smallville , been talked about for the role.

Brandon Routh had originally auditioned for McG for the role of Superman , but the director left the project. Bryan Singer , who eventually directed the new Superman film, came back to Routh as he favored the largely unknown actor for the role because of his Midwestern ancestry . Routh's engagement was criticized by the Superman cartoonists John Byrne and Alex Ross, as well as the global comic book fan base, who found him too young and not muscular enough. After Kate Bosworth for the role of Lois Lane and Kevin Spacey for the role of Superman opponent Lex Luthor had been signed, filming of Superman Returns finally began on March 16, 2005 in Australia . The film grossed 391 million US dollars in cinemas around the world, but received mixed reviews: While US critics predominantly praised the work as a whole and the portrayal of Brandon Routh, the action film was criticized in German-speaking countries as the “most superfluous film of all times ”and the title hero as one-dimensional and boring. Routh did not impersonate this in any other film, Henry Cavill succeeded him as Superman in the 2013 Man of Steel .

Later projects

Also in 2006, Routh appeared in a supporting role in Joel Bender's thriller Karla , who took on the true story of Canadian serial killers Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo . In 2012 he was a permanent member of the cast of the short-lived CBS Sitcom Partners , before it was prematurely discontinued after six episodes had aired due to poor audience figures .

From 2014 to 2015 Routh played the role of industrialist Raymond "Ray" Palmer in the television series Arrow , which slowly develops into the alter ego Atom . Since 2016, Routh has been one of the protagonists in the associated spin-off DC’s Legends of Tomorrow .

Filmography

Brandon Routh (2010)

Movies

TV Shows

Awards

Saturn Award

  • 2006: Rising Star Award for Superman Returns
  • 2007: Best Actor for Superman Returns

ShoWest Convention

  • 2006: Male Star of Tomorrow for Superman Returns

Teen Choice Award

  • 2006: Nominated in the Choice Rumble , Choice Breakout (Male) and Choice Chemistry categories for Superman Returns

Web links

Commons : Brandon Routh  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brandon Routh . In: TV.com . Retrieved November 20, 2012.
  2. ↑ Rocco Passafuime: Brandon Routh “Still Incredibly Super !!!” . In: TheCinemaSource.com . May 30, 2012. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  3. ↑ Brandon Routh . In: IMDb . Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  4. ↑ ethnic: Brandon Routh . In: EthiniCelebs . Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  5. ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: Partners: A son for Brandon Routh and Courtney Ford . Serial junkies . August 13, 2012. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
  6. ^ Film review from August 16, 2006 by Jens Balzer in the BZ
  7. ^ Film review from August 16, 2006 by Michael Bodmer in the NZZ .
  8. ↑ Man of Steel Trailer Traces Clark Kent From Troubled Boy to Superman . TheHDRoom . December 14, 2012. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
  9. ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: Partners: CBS discontinues series immediately . serienjunkies.com. December 12, 2012. Retrieved November 20, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Routh, Brandon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Routh, Brandon James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Des Moines , Iowa , United States