Nathan Fillion
Actor Nathan Fillion (born March 27, 1971 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian actor. He is reportedly a distant relation of Confederate civil war general Jubal Early.After working in several theatre, television and film productions, Nathan moved to New York in 1994 where he acted in the soap opera One Life to Live, for which he was nominated in 1996 for a Daytime Emmy in the Outstanding younger leading man category. After moving to Los Angeles and played in the sitcom Two Guys and a Girl.
He was "the wrong Ryan" in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan; and starred as Captain Malcolm Reynolds in Joss Whedon's science fiction television series Firefly for which he won the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA's Cinescape genre face of the future award, male award. Nathan had a recurring role on Whedon's series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and is slated to reprise his role as Reynolds in Whedon's movie Serenity.