Vincent Kartheiser

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Vincent Kartheiser : biography

May 5, 1979 –

Vincent Paul Kartheiser (born May 5, 1979) is an American actor known for playing Connor in Angel and Pete Campbell in Mad Men.

Personal life

Kartheiser dated his The Hairy Bird co-star Rachael Leigh Cook for four months in 1998. Kartheiser began dating his Mad Men co-star Alexis Bledel in mid-2012. Kartheiser and Bledel announced their engagement in March 2013.

Kartheiser lives ascetically: he eschews car ownership, instead walking or taking mass transit; he currently lives in a bungalow he describes as a "wooden box" with no mirrors; and he has been selling or giving away everything he owns. Kartheiser is a vegetarian and has chosen not to have children describing both decisions as "green choices". He has since stated that he now owns a car.

Early life

Kartheiser was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of Janet Marie (née Gruyé), who ran a nursery, and James Ralph Kartheiser, who sold construction equipment. The youngest of six children, he has four sisters, Andrea, Colette, Elise and Theresa, and a brother, Nathan.

Career

Some of Kartheiser’s first acting experiences were on stage of Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, including roles in Pippi Longstocking, Our Town, Dr. Seuss’ The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

Kartheiser made his screen debut with a bit role in the 1993 film Untamed Heart. Kartheiser found himself cast in mostly family fare, including The Indian in the Cupboard and a starring role in the film Alaska. The film led to Kartheiser getting the lead role in Masterminds.

Kartheiser next portrayed Bobby, a drug-addicted, homeless street urchin in Larry Clark’s Another Day in Paradise. He had two explicit sex scenes with Natasha Gregson, one of which was cut from the film in order to avoid an NC-17 rating. The film earned the young actor significant accolades, and he went on to appear in Strike! (later retitled All I Wanna Do) and Crime and Punishment in Suburbia.

Screened at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival, Crime and Punishment in Suburbia was a moody, updated take on Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, set in a modern high school. Kartheiser later landed a regular role on the supernatural drama series Angel in 2002. He played Connor, the son of two vampires, Darla and the titular Angel. Upon returning to Los Angeles, Connor’s gradually unraveling mental state was among the main focuses of the show’s fourth season; he would make two more appearances during its final season.

Returning to film work, Kartheiser starred in the well-received coming-of-age drama Dandelion, which was shown at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.

Since its 2007 debut, he has played the role of ambitious young ad man Pete Campbell in the television series Mad Men, on AMC.

Along with the rest of the cast of Mad Men, Kartheiser won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2009 and 2010.

Kartheiser filmed his role as Fielding in the BBC’s two-part adaptation of Martin Amis’ novel Money in the winter of 2009. The adaptation began airing on BBC Two on the 23rd of May, 2010.

Kartheiser’s short film, Fruit of Labor, will make its Orange County debut at the Newport Beach Film Festival, Newport Beach, CA, on Sunday, April 28, 2013 at 8 p.m. and Monday, April 29, 2013 at 5:30 p.m. Both screenings will also feature the full-length film Wasteland.

Film and television credits

Film and Television appearances
Year Title Role Notes
1993 Untamed Heart Orphan Boy
1994 Heaven Sent Eddie Chandler
1994 Little Big League James
1994 Sweet Justice Nicholas Episode: "Story of My Life"
1995 The|Indian in the Cupboard|The Indian in the Cupboard (film)}} Gillon
1996 Alaska Sean Barnes
1997 Masterminds Oswald Paxton
1998 The|Hairy Bird}} Snake AKA, Strike!
1998 Another Day in Paradise Bobbie
1999 ER Jesse Keenan Episode: "Truth & Consequences"
2000 Crime and Punishment in Suburbia Vincent
2000 Preston Tylk Dillon
2000 Ricky 6 Ricky Cowen
2000 Luckytown Colonel
2001 The|Unsaid|The Unsaid (2001 film)}} Thomas Caffey
2002–2004 Angel Connor 28 episodes
2004 Dandelion Mason Mullich
2005 Shakespeare’s Sonnets Sebastian
2006 Alpha Dog Pick Giaimo
2006 Waning Moon Michael
2007 Killing Zelda Sparks Craig Blackshear
2007–present Mad Men Pete Campbell Series Regular

Nominated— Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, 2008Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, 2009Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, 2010

2010 Elektra Luxx
2010 American Experience Thomas Nickerson Episode: "Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World"
2010 Money Fielding Goodney TV mini-series
2011 Rango Ezekiel
2011 L.A. Noire Walter Clemens Arson Case: "The Gas Man"
2011 In Time Philippe Weis
2012 Fruit of Labor Alfred