Cameron Mathison

Growing up in Ontario, Cameron Mathison spent months in the hospital and several years in leg braces due to Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease, a rare condition that affects the hip joint. Fully recovered by the time he was a teen, Mathison graduated from Montreal’s McGill University with a degree in civil engineering. He was then discovered by a modeling agent; print advertising campaigns and romance book covers soon followed. After appearing in the 1997 film 54, his life was forever changed in 1998 when he debuted on All My Children as Ryan Lavery — a role that won him the Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Male Newcomer and two Daytime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor.

In 2021, Mathison returned to soaps as Drew Cain on General Hospital. By that time, in addition to appearances on primetime shows like CSI and The Drew Carey Show and starring in movies for Hallmark, he’d also distinguished himself as a host (SOAPnet’s I Wanna Be A Soap Star, Hallmark’s Home & Family), correspondent (GMA, Entertainment Tonight) and even a competitor on Dancing With The Stars. A survivor of renal cell carcinoma, a type of kidney cancer, Mathison is a fitness enthusiast who enjoys golfing and skiing in his free time. He is the proud father of son Lucas and daughter Leila.