American actor Vincent Paul Kartheiser was born on May 5, 1979 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is best known as David Boreanaz’s character’s son, Connor, on the popular vampire show, Angel. Kartheiser was named after renowned artist Vincent Van Gogh, has four sisters and one brother and studied history at UCLA.
In 1993, Vincent Kartheiser made his screen debut with a small role in the film Untamed Heart. This enabled him to work alongside Marisa Tomei and Christian Slater. Most of Kartheiser’s roles were in family films, and he became noted for his performance in the action-adventure drama Alaska in 1996. The movie starred Thora Birch and Charlton Heston, and led to Kartheiser’s shot to more prominent roles. He soon got to play the lead character in Masterminds, a 1997 film also featuring Patrick Stewart. He has also appeared in Heaven Sent, Little Big League and The Indian in the Cupboard, earlier on in his career. The next project he embarked on was playing a drug-addled, homeless child in Larry Clark’s Another Day in Paradise, starring James Woods and Melanie Griffith. This performance earned him significant accolades, and he soon landed a role in Strike! He starred with Monica Keena on the series, and worked with her again on Crime and Punishment in Suburbia. The moody version of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel was shown at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival, and Kartheiser got many other roles that year for his portrayal. He was seen in the thriller Ricky 6, acted alongside Luke Wilson in Preston Tylk, and worked with Kirsten Dunst on Luckytown. Soon, he was given the role of Connor on Angel in 2002, with his character becoming the focus of the show’s fourth season. He later worked on the crime drama Alpha Dog, starring Bruce Willis and Emile Hirsch. Kartheiser also got a role on the well-received drama Dandelion, shown in 2004’s Sundance Film Festival. Later, he joined the cast of the series Mad Men, playing the account executive Pete Campbell. He and his other cast mates were nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2008.
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American actor Vincent Kartheiser was born on May 5, 1979 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He started his career appearing in numerous films, earning award nominations along the way. His first film role was in 1993, when he played a bit role in the romantic comedy Untamed Heart, which starred Christian Slater and Marisa Tomei. His initial film credits revolved around family fare, notably the 1996 action-adventure Alaska, which earned him a Young Artist Award nomination, and the 1997 comedy-action film Masterminds, where he starred alongside Patrick Stewart.
Kartheiser then started appearing in independent films. In 1997, he starred in the Larry Clark-directed film Another Day in Paradise. In 1998, he starred in the film Strike! (which was later renamed as All I Wanna Do), where he appeared alongside Kirsten Dunst and Gaby Hoffmann. In 2000, he was part of the cast of Crime and Punishment is Suburbia, also starring Monica Keena, which was screened at that year’s Sundance Film Festival. It was eventually nominated for the festival’s Grand Jury Prize. He appeared in another Sundance participant, the coming-of-age drama Dandelion, which was premiered in 2004. His other films include Ricky 6, Luckytown, The Unsaid, Waning Moon and Preston Tylk.
Kartheiser also had several notable regular roles on television. In 2002, he joined the cast of the hit series Angel, where he played Connor, the son of Angel (David Boreanaz) and Darla (Julie Benz). He was kidnapped as a child because of a prophecy that apparently had Connor kill his father; however, he later returns to the normal world as a vicious demon hunter manipulated into killing Angel. He doesn’t succeed, and eventually accepts his father and joins his group. In 2007, he joined the cast of the critically-acclaimed series Mad Men, where he plays the young and ambitious advertising account manager Peter Campbell.