# Brendan Fehr

Brendan Jacob Joel Fehr (born October 29, 1977) is a Canadian film and television actor, perhaps best known for portraying Michael Guerin in the WB television series Roswell, and for portraying lab tech Dan Cooper in CSI: Miami. In 2008, Fehr won a Gemini Award for "Hottest Canadian Male TV Star". Fehr also played Jared Booth in the Fox television series Bones. He has had numerous film roles.

## Early life

Fehr was born October 29, 1977, in New Westminster, British Columbia, to a mother who worked as a correctional case manager and a father who was a yacht manufacturer. Raised in a strict Mennonite household, he later moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba.

## Career

Fehr has modeled for Levi's, Calvin Klein, Emporio Armani, and DKNY Jeans, and his pictures appeared in magazines. Fehr broke into television in 1997 when he was cast in Breaker High. He enjoyed a regular role on the Sci-Fi TV series Roswell from 1999 to 2002. In 2001, Fehr starred in the U2 video "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of". He plays a rookie football player named Paul Hewson (Bono's real name), who blows what would have been the game winning kick in an American football game as the ball hit the goal post. Fehr also appeared in Vanessa Carlton's video "Pretty Baby".
In 2008, Fehr starred as Jake Stanton in the ABC mini-series Samurai Girl, and had a recurring role as the character Jared Booth on Bones. In 2009 he had a recurring role as Cooper, a criminalist in CSI: Miami TV series. In 2011, Fehr played a businessman in A Christmas Kiss and the navigator of a U.S. warship in the movie X-Men First Class. He also guest-starred in two episodes of Nikita (TV series).
In 2014, Fehr began playing the role of Dr. Drew Alister, an Army vet and surgeon at a San Antonio hospital, in the NBC drama The Night Shift. The show aired for four seasons, ending in 2017.

## Personal life

He currently lives in Los Angeles, California and Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wife, Jennifer Rowley, whom he married in July 2006. The couple has three daughters born in 2008, 2011 and 2013.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1998 | Hand | Hart | |
| 1998 | Disturbing Behavior | Brendan – Motor Jock | |
| 2000 | Christina's House | Eddy Duncan | |
| 2000 | Final Destination | George Waggner | |
| 2001 | Kill Me Later | Billy | |
| 2001 | The Forsaken | Nick | |
| 2002 | Long Shot | Danny | |
| 2002 | Edge of Madness | Simon Herron | |
| 2003 | Biker Boyz | Stuntman | |
| 2003 | Nemesis Game | Dennis Reveni | |
| 2004 | Childstar | Chip Metzger | |
| 2004 | Sugar | Butch | |
| 2005 | The Long Weekend | Edward 'Ed' Waxman | |
| 2006 | Comeback Season | Paul | |
| 2007 | The Fifth Patient | Vince Callow | |
| 2008 | The Other Side of the Tracks | Josh | |
| 2010 | Fort McCoy | Sgt. Dominic Rossi | |
| 2011 | X-Men: First Class | American Soldier aboard Fleet vessel | Communications officer |
| 2012 | Silent Night | Deputy Jordan | |
| 2012 | Roswell FM | Jay Rathbone | |
| 2013 | Only I | Orion Smith | |
| 2013 | 13 Eerie | Daniel | |
| 2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy | Rhomann Dey's Partner | |
| 2014 | The Stowaway | Barton | |
| 2016 | The last transmission | Pilot call sign Delta-Sierra-Juliet | |
| 2019 | Brotherhood | Robert Butcher | |
| 2019 | Daughter of the Wolf | David Hackl | |
| 2020 | Wander | Nick Cassidy | |
| 2021 | Royally Wrapped for Christmas | Prince Aiden | |
| 2022 | Grey Elephant | Garrett | |
| 2023 | The Amityville Curse | Dr. Harrison Cole | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1997 | Breaker High | Price Montague | Episode: "Tamara Has Two Faces" |
| 1998 | Every Mother's Worst Fear | Alan | TV movie |
| 1998 | Night Man | Eric | Episode: "It Came from Out of the Sky" |
| 1998 | Perfect Little Angels | Mitch Furress | TV movie |
| 1998, 1999 | Millennium | Kevin Galbraith / Nick Carfagna | Episodes: "The Pest House", "Collateral Damage" |
| 1999 | The New Addams Family | Sam Sedgwick | Episode: "Wednesday's Crush" |
| 1999 | Our Guys: Outrage at Glen Ridge | Barry Bennett | TV movie |
| 1999–2002 | Roswell | Michael Guerin | Main role, 61 episodes |
| 2005–2008 | CSI: Miami | Dan Cooper | Recurring role, 35 episodes |
| 2008 | Samurai Girl | Jake Stanton | Miniseries |
| 2008–2010 | Bones | Jared Booth | Recurring role, 5 episodes |
| 2010 | The Cutting Edge: Fire and Ice | James McKinsey | TV movie |
| 2010 | Ice Quake | Michael Webster | TV movie |
| 2010 | CSI: NY | Al Branson | Episode: "Tales from the Undercard" |
| 2011 | And Baby Will Fall | David Rose | TV movie |
| 2011 | A Christmas Kiss | Adam Hughes | TV movie |
| 2011–2012 | Nikita | Steven | Episodes: "Coup de Grace", "Dead Drop" |
| 2012 | Adopting Terror | Kevin Anderson | TV movie |
| 2013 | Longmire | Greg Collette | Episode: "Carcasses" |
| 2014 | House of Secrets | Tyler Jordan | TV movie |
| 2014–2017 | The Night Shift | Dr. Drew Alister | Main role |
| 2016–2017 | Better Call Saul | Bauer | Episodes: "Fifi", "Mabel" |
| 2016 | Real Detective | Detective Mike Ciesynski | Episode: "Vengeance" |
| 2017 | Wynonna Earp | Ewan | Recurring role, 4 episodes |
| 2017 | Wrapped Up in Christmas | Ryan McKee | TV movie |
| 2018 | Entertaining Christmas | John | TV movie |

## Awards and nominations

Saturn Award
* 2001: Nominated, "Best Supporting Actor on Television" – Roswell
Gemini Award
* 2008: Won, "Hottest Canadian Male Star"
Genie Award
* 2005: Nominated, "Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role"
Teen Choice Awards
* 2000: Nominated, "Choice Sidekick" – Roswell
* 2001: Nominated, "Choice Sidekick" – Roswell