Diego Klattenhoff Biography

Diego Klattenhoff (born 1979) is a Canadian actor best known for playing Mike Faber in the Showtime series Homeland. He also played Derek in Whistler and Ivan in Men in Trees. He currently stars as FBI Agent Donald Ressler in The Blacklist.

Early life

Klattenhoff was born in Nova Scotia, Canada. Moved to Toronto at the age of 19, Klattenhoff to pursue an acting career. While studying in theater workshops for a number of years, he adapted to the Toronto life-style while being a bartender. He likes various physical activities in his free time, including playing baseball, hockey, golf and swimming.

Career

Diego Klattenhoff studied with some of Canada's most respected acting coaches, including David Rotenberg, Bruce Clayton and Rae Ellen Bodie. Klattenhoff's first notable acting role was in Mean Girls, starring Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams. He followed that with a string of appearances in notable TV shows like Smallville and Stargate SG-1, and films like Lucky Number Slevin.

Since 2006, he has been getting recurring roles like Young Jacob in At the Hotel, Derek in Canada's CTV's Whistler, Ivan Palacinke in Men in Trees, and Mike Callahan in Mercy. He currently plays the role of Mike Faber in Homeland, a Marine major whose best friend returns to the US after disappearing in Iraq seven years earlier. The series won Best Drama at the 2013 Golden Globes for its first season. Klattenhoff and the cast got nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Cast and twice for a PAAFTJ Television Awards for Best Cast in a Drama Series. Diego, returned to season 3 of Homeland as a recurring character, due to his commitment to NBC Drama The Blacklist.

Additional credits for Diego Klattenhoff include guest starring roles on numerous films, movies of the week, and television series such as Psych, Supernatural, 24, and Falling Skies, among many others. Klattenhoff also starred in J. J. Abrams' Television Movie, Anatomy of Hope. Diego was also seen in the 2013 Guillermo del Toro film Pacific Rim and the 2013 Sci-fi thriller After Earth

On March 13, 2013, Diego joined the cast of the NBC thriller The Blacklist as FBI Field Agent Donald Ressler. The show premiered on September 23, to ratings of 12.6 million viewers.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Straight in the Face	Daniel
2003	Autobiography of an Insect	Cameron
2004	Mean Girls	Shane Oman
	The Last Hit	Sasha
	Cube Zero	Quigley
2005	Ice Princess	Kyle Dayton
	Dry Whiskey	Terry
2006	Lucky Number Slevin	Ginger
2009	The Informers	Dirk
2010	The Dry Land	Henry
2012	Unconditional	Billy
2013	After Earth	Veteran Ranger
	Pacific Rim	Yancy Becket
	Kilimanjaro	Troy	Completed

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Doc		1 episode
2002	Witchblade		1 episode
2003	Wild Card		1 episode
	Mutant X	Janitor #1/Johnny Cummings	1 episode
	Veritas: The Quest	Tymus	1 episode
	Family Curse		Television movie
	Blessings	Benny	Television movie
2004	1-800-Missing	Brad Whitman	1 episode
	Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye		1 episode
2005	Yesteryears		Television movie
	Smallville	Josh Greenfield	1 episode
	Murder in the Hamptons	Traffic Cop	Television movie
	Stargate SG-1	Team Leader	1 episode
	Shania: A Life in Eight Albums	Paul	Television movie
	Firestorm: Last Stand at Yellowstone	Willis	Television Movie
	Recipe for a Perfect Christmas	Zach	Television movie
2006	At the Hotel	Young Jacob	6 episodes
	Psych	Dylan Maxwell	1 episode
	Fallen	Nathaniel	Television movie
	Supernatural	Duane Tanner	1 episode
2007	Fire Serpent	Young Dutch	Television movie
	Whistler	Derek	13 episodes
2008	Lost Behind Bars	Charlie Quinn	Television movie
	Men in Trees	Ivan Palacinke	6 episodes
2009	Anatomy of Hope	Brendan Casey	Television movie
	The Listener	Tom Crawford	1 episode
	ER	Jay	1 episode
	24	Sergeant Cadden	2 episodes
2009"2010	Mercy	Mike Callahan	22 episodes
2011	Falling Skies	Lieutenant Danner	1 episode
2011"present	Homeland	Mike Faber	Main Cast (Seasons 1-2) Recurring (Season 3) Nominated " PAAFTJ Television Awards for Best Cast in a Drama Series (2012, 2013) Nominated " Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (2013)
2012	Longmire	Eli	1 episode
2013"present	The Blacklist	Donald Ressler	Main Cast