Cam Joslin Gigandet is an American actor whose credits include a recurring role on The O.C. and appearances in feature films Twilight, Pandorum, Never Back Down, Burlesque, Easy A, The Roommate and Priest. He also starred in the short-lived CBS legal drama series Reckless.
MTV Movie Award for Best Fight, Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Villain, Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie: Rumble, Young Hollywood Award for 'One To Watch'
Nominations
Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actor: Drama
Movies
Burlesque, Never Back Down, Twilight, The Roommate, Priest, Easy A, The Unborn, Bad Johnson, Pandorum, The Magnificent Seven, Trespass, 5 Star Day, In the Blood, The Experiment, One Square Mile, Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden, Red Sky, Sitter Cam, Broken Vows, Plush, Who's Your Caddy?, T...
I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.
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(On Twilight) That's opened up so many doors, and I'm so grateful for what that movie's done. It was really kind of a special little slice of life that brought me where I am today. Thankfully I got to do other things.
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(On being frequently cast as a villain) It's probably, I'm not going to say the easiest thing for me, I don't know, I enjoy it the most. I don't know why, I think it's that there's more to grab onto, I guess. You can use your imagination a little bit more, where as if they're good guys or heroes, they always have to abide by a strict set of rules. To this day, I still haven't been able to figure out how to work around those. It hasn't gotten fun for me, the good guy. Maybe because I don't know how to do it, I don't know. With the bad guys, there seems to be more creativity and imagination involved in justifying what they do. That's what people hire me for, I'll take it.
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Fact
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Third child, Armie Heartly Gigandet, born November 30, 2015.
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Second child, Rekker Radley, born January 23, 2013.
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On July 4, 2008 cracked his fibula in a water-skiing accident.
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Engaged to actress Dominique Geisendorff, the couple has been together for six years.
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One older sister, Kelsie Gigandet, is a celebrity hair stylist.
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Daughter, Everleigh Ray Gigandet, born on April 14, 2009. She weighed 7 lbs. 6 oz. Mother is Dominique Geisendorff.
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Has a black belt in the Israeli martial art of Krav Maga.
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His last name, which is French, is pronounced "Ji-GAN-Day". Two of Cam's paternal great-great-great-grandparents, Francis Vincent Gigandet and Mary Humbert, were French immigrants. Cam's other ancestry includes English, Finnish, German, Swedish, and Dutch.
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Has two tattoos, one on his right arm and the other on his left hip that says "Godspeed".
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His girlfriend got him to start reading the Twilight series two months before he got the part of James.
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