![]() ![]() With that in mind, he recently married actress Cassandra Jean - they are expecting their first child later this year - and with his friend Andrew Harding has founded a vineyard, Nocking Point Wines, based in Walla Walla, Washington. he’s enjoyed nothing but steady work: a series regular on HBO’s Hung, New Girl, Vampire Diaries and now Arrow. The experience in sales polished his audition chops, and since returning to L.A. This grounded him - and might have become a career - but he realized acting was what he needed to do. For two years he made a go of becoming an insurance salesman. (He laughingly calculates the sixty hours a week, nine months a year that he puts into the show will land him in mastery territory before he knows it.) He had a passion to perform from an early age, and made his first effort to crack Hollywood at age nineteen, but returned to his native Toronto. He takes to heart Malcolm Gladwell’s prescription that to become proficient at anything, you need to do it in a focused, concentrated manner for 10,000 hours. Each episode balances present-day intrigues with an “origins tale” - flashbacks of the hero’s lost years on an island, where he honed his amazing archery skills - putting Amell in practically every scene of every show. In the meantime, he is happy to concentrate on Arrow, for which he has just returned from a promotional tour of Europe and China. (His stance is one of friendly demurral until somebody shows him a script.) The burgeoning action hero - who, like Tom Cruise, does all of his own stunts - is getting offers but is waiting for the right vehicle. ![]() Filmmakers have taken notice: there was a close call with the Die Hard franchise, where he almost played the son of Bruce Willis he also shares with our list’s Matt Bomer the distinction of being frontrunner on the Internet to play the lead in Fifty Shades of Grey. He not only makes this feat look easy, but inevitable. ACTOR | chiseled looks and knack for playing multiple characters have made The CW series Arrow a hit and resurrected a DC superhero once hopelessly buried in the archives behind Batman and Green Lantern. ![]()
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