Wissenswertes

Was invited to take ballet and instantly caught the bug. Despite being at the advanced age of 25, he won a full scholarship to study with the Joffrey Ballet School in New York City. He stayed there for three years. He also taught ballroom dancing.

Fahey left home at age 17, having heard "the call of the open road". Spent time trekking through the Himalayas and Afghanistan in his younger years while traveling around the world. He also hitchhiked to Alaska, backpacked through Europe and worked in an Israeli kibbutz, taking any odd job there was. He often returns to Kabul, Afghanistan, where he supports an orphanage.

Of English and Irish ancestry, he is one of thirteen children born to Jane and Frank Fahey, and raised in Western New York.

He joined the cast of Lost (2004) in 2008 and is working with two former co-stars, Josh Holloway, with whom he worked in Cold Heart (2001), and Naveen Andrews, with whom he worked in Grindhouse (2007).