Brad Hawkins

American performer Brad Hawkins works as an actor and martial artist and has also sung country music. Born in Summerville, he attended Plano Senior High School, finishing in 1992. His best known role is Ryan Steele on the Saban action adventure series VR Troopers, which ran from 1994 to 1996 and included 92 episode appearances. He later appeared in Boyhood (2014) and was the uncredited voice of Gold Ranger Trey of Triforia on Power Rangers Zeo. In 1999 he played Tyler Hart in Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story, a CBS miniseries. He spent three years in Nashville as a country singer, then signed with Curb Records in 1997 and reached the charts with We Lose. He took the lead in Shredder (2001), a slasher film, contributed motion capture to early Doom 2016 prototypes made by id Software, and has often done voice work for Funimation, with parts in D.Gray-man, Dragonaut: The Resonance and Goblin Slayer.