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- Owain Sebastian Yeoman is a Welsh actor born to Michael and Hilary Yeoman. He has one sister Ailsa. An honors English graduate of Brasenose College (1996-99), Oxford University, Yeoman also graduated from the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) in London with the distinction of being the Henry Marshall Shield Winner in 2003. His first audition was for the Warner Bros epic, Troie (2004) starring Brad Pitt in which director Wolfgang Petersen immediately cast Yeoman as Lysander, the Captain of the Trojan army.
A veteran of over a dozen stage plays in London's West End theaters and two Edinburgh international Stage/Film festivals Yeoman re-located to Los Angeles in 2004 where he was cast in TV projects including "The Friendlies", the lead role in Mark Burnett's Commando Nanny (2004) and played the T-888 main terminator in the pilot of the Terminator franchise series Terminator: Les chroniques de Sarah Connor (2008). Yeoman played leading series regular roles in the 2006 Fox comedy Kitchen Confidential (2005), opposite Bradley Cooper.
In 2008, Yeoman played Sgt. Eric Kocher in the HBO award-winning biopic Génération Kill (2008). He is probably best known to TV audiences for his leading role as CBI detective Wayne Rigsby in the CBS international hit series Mentalist (2008) in which he has starred for over 6 years. in 2012, Yeoman was cast as the lead detective KING in the independent horror feature Skull (2011) and as the lead in the festival short movie AbsolutSin (2012). In 2014, Yeoman was reunited with Bradley Cooper when he starred in American Sniper (2014) in which he was cast by Clint Eastwood.
He is an avid animal rights supporter and works closely with PETA and the Humane Society (USA). He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Gigi and their French bulldog, Cash.- IMDb mini biography by: Updated by R.M. Sieger
- SpousesGigi Yallouz(September 7, 2013 - present) (1 child)Lucy Davis(December 9, 2006 - October 2011) (divorced)
- ChildrenEver Belle
- ParentsMike YeomanHilary Yeoman
- RelativesAilsa(Sibling)
- Towering height
- Muscular physique
- Used to work as a banker in Canary Wharf, London.
- Married The Office (2001) actress Lucy Davis on the 9th December 2006 at St. Paul's Cathedral. Normally reserved for royal weddings (King Charles III and Princess Diana were wed there) Davis and Yeoman were permitted to marry there as Davis' father, comedian Jasper Carrott, was awarded an OBE in the New Year's Honours in 2002.
- He was raised in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales. He speaks intermediate Welsh, A-level French and German.
- Not only did Owain participate in rugby, rowing and hockey at college and university level, but he also represented Wales in Hockey.
- His father, Mike Yeoman, is a nuclear physicist. His mother is Hilary Yeoman.
- Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
- I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
- A friend of mine is a chef in Bali, and another friend said "God, he's like Brad Pitt," and I said "Yeah, I think he's more like arm Pitt," 'cause, you know, Brad Pitt would be a bit of an overstatement.
- If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.
- From an actor's point of view, you never really like to hope that anything will go beyond the pilot. I'd always say to my agent every time I filmed a pilot, 'Great! Well, I'll see you at pilot season.'
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