Kevin Sorbo

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Birthday:

24 September 1958, Mound, Minnesota, USA

Birth Name:

Kevin David Sorbo

Height:

191 cm

Kevin spent 3 years traveling around the world, modeling for print ads and appearing in over 150 commercials, before landing in his breakout series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995).Kevin David Sorbo was born in Mound, Minnesota, on September 24, 1958, to Ardis (Thompson), a nurse, and Lynn Nain Sorbo, a high school teacher. His father was of Norwegian descent and his mother's ancestry was English, Scottish, and German. In high school, he excelled at football, baseball and basketball; in college, he played these 3 sports, plus hockey. Kevin was also in a number of plays. After leaving college, Kevin joined an actors theater group, and traveled to Europe, then to Sydney, Australia appearing in commercials. At the end of 1986, he settled in Los Angeles. Kevin began to make guest appearances on such popular shows as Murder, She Wrote (1984). At 6' 3" and very muscular, Kevin was a natural for the title role in what would become his signature series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995). Kevin became internationally famous, and he learned the craft of film-making well enough to direct and co-write some of the episodes. Kevin even studied martial arts in order to do many of his own stunts. In real life, Kevin's heart is as big as Hercules'-- he leads "A World Fit for Kids!" as the chair and spokesperson. Kevin devotes much of his time to "A World Fit For Kids!" which is a successful mentoring model that trains inner-city teens to use school, fitness, sports and positive role models for themselves, and then become the coaches and mentors for younger children. In 1998, Kevin married lovely actress Sam Sorbo, best known for her dual role on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995) as Serena/the Golden Hind ("Hind" is a female red deer). Show less «

(On losing the opportunity to star in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993)) "You know what? It happened for the right rea...Show more »

(On losing the opportunity to star in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993)) "You know what? It happened for the right reason. Although, I would have made a good Clark Kent. I look better in glasses". Show less «

I've always been a religious guy, but not overly religious. I've always believed in God and Jesus. I pray.

It doesn't matter how successful you are in this business, it's tough to get through the next door.

I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering.

If you ever watched 'Hercules,' you can see that it was made in a comical way for the most part. I remember getting lots of letters from kid...Show more »

If you ever watched 'Hercules,' you can see that it was made in a comical way for the most part. I remember getting lots of letters from kids around the world saying that the show helped them curb their temper and not look for trouble and just walk away from it because that was the stronger thing to do. Show less «

Christianity takes this beating that I really don't understand and yet you can't say anything negative about the Muslims because that's horr...Show more »

Christianity takes this beating that I really don't understand and yet you can't say anything negative about the Muslims because that's horrible, you can't say anything negative about other faiths. Show less «

If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we...Show more »

If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong. Show less «

The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.

This is our lance. See, you're making me laugh about this now, because there have been a few jokes on the set about what they actually look ...Show more »

This is our lance. See, you're making me laugh about this now, because there have been a few jokes on the set about what they actually look like. But, see, I personally think they'd be a great toy. So... just batteries aren't included. Show less «

Hollywood likes to put out their own message out a lot of times, and that message isn't the best one for everyone.

Well, anything can happen and it happened to me. I learned everybody has a story.