Kris Holden-Ried

Kris Holden-Ried is a Canadian actor who moved from competitive athletics to film and television. Born in Scarborough, Ontario, he grew up in a farm town northeast of Toronto, then studied international commerce at Concordia University while competing on the Canadian National Pentathlon Team and earning silver medals for riding and fencing at the Pan American and Pan Pacific championships. In 1994 he joined a Montreal agency to support his education, and his first audition secured him the lead role in the period television movie Young Ivanhoe. He later played William Compton in The Tudors (2007), the werewolf police detective Dyson in the Syfy series Lost Girl, and Quint in Underworld: Awakening (2012). His credits also include The Returned (2013), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), Gossip, and arcs on Degrassi: The Next Generation, M.V.P., and The Bridge. He studied scene work with Uta Hagen's master class and with Janine Manatis.