Nick Bateman

Nick Bateman is a Canadian actor, model and author who started martial arts as a boy, studying Goju-ryu karate and the bo staff. As a teenager he earned four world titles from the National Blackbelt League in its division for ages 15 to 17, three in weapons and one in Japanese forms, competing in Houston and Myrtle Beach across 2003 and 2004. After finishing studies at Capilano University in Vancouver at 20 he opened his karate school, then moved into professional modeling, living in Milan, New York City and Miami and appearing in an Abercrombie & Fitch campaign photographed by Bruce Weber. His screen work includes a starring role in Hobo with a Shotgun (2011) and the male lead in the Hallmark Channel film A Brush with Love (2019), opposite Arielle Kebbel. He also starred in A Christmas Miracle for Daisy (2021), a GAC Family movie with Jill Wagner, and in 2024 joined When Hope Calls for its second season.