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My Take
Ryan Hurst occupies a special shelf in my memory for one role: Opie Winston in Sons of Anarchy, a quiet mountain of grief and loyalty whose fate still stings years later. That performance showed me what a so-called supporting actor can do, anchoring an entire show's moral weight without a single big speech. He was just as affecting as Gerry Bertier in Remember the Titans, and his BAFTA-nominated Thor in God of War Ragnarok proved his presence translates even into a video game. Hollywood runs on actors like him: not the face on the poster, but the reason the poster matters.
Overview
Ryan Douglas Hurst (born June 19, 1976) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Gerry Bertier in Remember the Titans (2000) and Opie Winston in the FX drama series Sons of Anarchy (2008–2012). He portrayed the Norse god Thor in the 2022 video game God of War Ragnarök, for which he received a BAFTA Award nomination.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Ryan Hurst
- Name (Japanese)
- ライアン・ハースト
- Reading
- らいあん・はーすと
- Born
- June 19, 1976 (age 49)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Gemini / Dragon
- Origin
- Santa Monica, California, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / television actor / film actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Santa Monica High School
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.