Trevor St. John

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Trevor St. John (Todd, OLTL)

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Trevor St. John grew up in Orchard Prairie, Wash., and attended Whitworth College in Spokane on a jazz scholarship. That was where where he got his first taste of acting. Hollywood came to Spokane to shoot the film Benny & Joon, and St. John was hired as Aidan Quinn’s stand-in.

After his 1993 graduation, St. John headed for Los Angeles. His first film role was playing a skinhead in John Singleton's Higher Learning. Things did get "higher" from there, because he landed roles like that of Glenn Close’s son in Serving in Silence and Kris Kristofferson's son in Payback alongside Mel Gibson. St. John also guest-starred on several television series and had just finished an off-Broadway play when ONE LIFE TO LIVE came knocking. He was hired to play a new character, Walker Laurence, but soon discovered (like the audience) that Walker was the nefarious and troubled Todd Manning in disguise.

Now a New Yorker, St. John enjoys sports (but not the Yankees!) and practicing Buddhist meditation.

Et Cetera

Five Random Facts
—He played jazz percussion with the Count Basie Orchestra and the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
—He owns Bioconstructs, a company that teaches biomechanics to fitness professionals.
—He's a Seattle Mariners fan.
—St. John considered being a physical therapist before he got into acting.
—He tried out for the role of Kevin Buchanan on OLTL.

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Career Highlights

TV Roles
DIRTY SEXY MONEY (Devlin George, 2007)
HOPE & FAITH (Kiley, 2006)
JUST SHOOT ME! (Cameron, 2002)
NASH BRIDGES (Jason, 1999-2000)
MURDER, SHE WROTE (Colin Forbes, 1995)
SEAQUEST DSV (1995)
TV Movie Roles
SERVING IN SILENCE (David, 1995)
Film Roles
The Kingdom (Earl Ripon, 2007)
Ultimatum (Tactical Team Leader, 2007)
Nothing Man (Eddie, 1995)
Higher Learning (James, 1995)
Crimson Tide (Launcher, 1995)
Bio-Dome (Parker, 1996)
Dogtown (Philip Van Horn, 1997)
Payback (Johnny Bronson, 1999)
The King's Guard (Capt. John Reynolds, 2000)
Theater
An Ideal Husband (Lord Goring, 2005)

Memorable Quotes

"Soap operas are nice gigs. I never considered it before, because when I first started in L.A. there was no crossover. If you were a soap actor, you were a soap actor. If you were a model, you were a model. Now everything has so much cross-pollination that you can work in different venues. My agent said, 'You should think about doing a soap.' So I put myself out there."
— Soap Opera Weekly, 1/17/04

"Working with Glenn Close was like studying acting at Yale for a semester. Actually, you didn't have to do any acting. She was so authentic that it made your job very easy. She was a very generous person. On a personal level, too, she was very sweet and a pleasure to work with. Mel Gibson was terrific, too. He is a funny man and pleasant to be around. He is a good Scrabble player. We played Scrabble in the makeup room."
— Weekly, 1/17/04

"It's nice, because I had instant concrete relationships. There was so much history with Todd. I became a core character. It was grounding. I could look at old scripts and ask people, 'What was your relationship with Todd like?' Whereas with Walker, no one knew. And, of course, that's what [acting] is all about — your relationship to people — when you figure out how to play a scene."
— Weekly, 1/17/04

"It's like saying that if you play Hamlet, every actor who plays it has to play each line with the same inflection, the same intention. I don't care what the other guy did. That's his time. Those are the characteristics that Todd had simply because he was the only one who played it. As far as I'm concerned, it's just a name and words on a page. What I do after that is up to me. I'm playing it now. I know that sounds very arrogant and overconfident, but it would be no fun to try to mimic somebody."
— Weekly, 1/27/04

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