Johann Urb

Johann Urb is an Estonian-American actor who got his start as a model in New York City. Born in Tallinn, he moved to Finland as a child and was raised mostly in Tampere, then came to the United States at seventeen. After training in drama at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, he had a small part in Zoolander (2001) and appeared in the short film Fear of Feathers. In 2004 he joined the short-lived series The Mountain, and guest spots on other television shows and small movie roles followed. His first sizable big-screen role came in The Hottie and the Nottie (2008). He played a heroic pilot in Roland Emmerich's disaster epic 2012 (2009) and a journalist in the fantasy series Eastwick. Urb also portrayed Leon S. Kennedy in Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) and U.S. Park Ranger Burt Moore on NCIS.