Name |
Riley Smith |
Height |
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Naionality |
American |
Date of Birth |
12-April-1978 |
Place of Birth |
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA |
Famous for |
Acting |
Riley Smith is an American film and television actor and singer for the band The Life of Riley. Three months after the Hilfiger campaign, Smith flew to Los Angeles to do a screen test for the 1998 WB pilot Minor Threat, but the pilot was not picked up. Subsequently, he went on to do eight prime time network pilots, more than a dozen guest-starring roles, and rescuuring character roles in three television series.
Smith has appeared in the film Eight Legged Freaks, Not Another Teen Movie, Radio, New York Minute and the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury nominee Weapons. For the film New York Minute, he and co-star Jared Padalecki were hand picked for their roles by stars Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen. After his role as Jim, the love interest for Ashley's character of Jane, he admitted that he could not tell the sisters apart.
Smith had recurring roles in the Emmy-nominated CBS series Joan of Arcadia, the highly acclaimed Emmy Fox show 24 season 3 as Kyle Singer, the short-lived WB series Summerland and the acclaimed Judd Apatow creation for NBC Freaks and Geeks. He was also a main cast member in the short lived Fox show Drive. Riley also played Dean Talon in the Disney Channel movie Motocrossed. He played a love interest and mentor to Andy Carson on the race track.