Zachary Andrew Knighton is an American

United States

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 actor who currently stars as Dave Rose on the ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 comedy series Happy Endings

Happy Endings (TV series)

Happy Endings is an American television series for the ABC network. The single-camera ensemble comedy premiered on April 13, 2011, as a midseason replacement, with a one-hour premiere of two back-to-back episodes starting at 9:30 pm ET/PT...

. Prior to that, he co-starred as Dr. Bryce Varley on ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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's science fiction

Science fiction

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 series FlashForward

Flashforward

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from 2009–2010.

Life and career

Knighton was born in Alexandria, Virginia

Alexandria, Virginia

Alexandria is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of 2009, the city had a total population of 139,966. Located along the Western bank of the Potomac River, Alexandria is approximately six miles south of downtown Washington, D.C.Like the rest of northern Virginia, as well as...

 and in 1996, graduated from Frank W. Cox High School

Frank W. Cox High School

Frank W. Cox High School is a secondary school located in the Great Neck subdivision of Virginia Beach, Virginia. It was founded in 1961 as the Northeast Junior High School, but upon opening, it was named after a former superintendent of Virginia Beach City Public Schools, Frank Woodard Cox, who...

 in Virginia Beach, Virginia

Virginia Beach, Virginia

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. Afterwards, he attended Virginia Commonwealth University

Virginia Commonwealth University

Virginia Commonwealth University is a public university located in Richmond, Virginia. It comprises two campuses in the Downtown Richmond area, the product of a merger between the Richmond Professional Institute and the Medical College of Virginia in 1968...

. He is a fan of horror film

Horror film

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s and surfing

Surfing

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In 2007, he starred in the horror film remake The Hitcher

The Hitcher (2007 film)

The Hitcher is a 2007 horror film starring Sean Bean, Sophia Bush, and Zachary Knighton. It is a remake of the 1986 film of the same name starring Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and C. Thomas Howell. The Hitcher was directed by Dave Meyers and produced by Michael Bay’s production company...

, with Sophia Bush

Sophia Bush

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, playing the role originally performed by C. Thomas Howell

C. Thomas Howell

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Previously, Knighton played Laz Lackerson on the short-lived television program

Television program

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, Life on a Stick

Life on a Stick

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. He also starred as Gary on the series Related.

In 2002, main character in the French erotic, disturbing and complex film A New Life by Philippe Grandrieux

Philippe Grandrieux

Philippe Jesus Grandrieux is a French film director born in 1954.- Biography :He studied movies at the INSAS in Brussels and started his career as a moviemaker by shooting fictional films and documentaries. Grandrieux then worked as an experimental filmmaker in Belgium where he exhibited his...

, with Anna Mouglalis

Anna Mouglalis

-Biography:Anna Mouglalis was born in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, to her Greek father and French mother. She spent her youth in the Var département, before moving back to Nantes with her family. Her father is a doctor and her mother is a masseuse. Until 2001 she studied at the Conservatoire National...

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Knighton has made guest appearances on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced...

, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

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, and Bones

Bones (TV series)

Bones is an American crime drama television series that premiered on the Fox Network on September 13, 2005. The show is based on forensic anthropology and forensic archaeology, with each episode focusing on an FBI case file concerning the mystery behind human remains brought by FBI Special Agent...

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Knighton currently stars in the ABC

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

 comedy series Happy Endings

Happy Endings (TV series)

Happy Endings is an American television series for the ABC network. The single-camera ensemble comedy premiered on April 13, 2011, as a midseason replacement, with a one-hour premiere of two back-to-back episodes starting at 9:30 pm ET/PT...

with Elisha Cuthbert

Elisha Cuthbert

Elisha Ann Cuthbert is a Canadian film and television actress. Cuthbert is known as the former co-host of the Canadian children's television series Popular Mechanics for Kids. In 1998, she had her first film role in Airspeed. She followed this in 2003 with a role in Old School...

, Casey Wilson

Casey Wilson

Cathryn Rose "Casey" Wilson is an American actress, comedienne and screenwriter. She was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 2008–2009 and currently stars as Penny Hartz in the ABC comedy series Happy Endings....

, Adam Pally

Adam Pally

Adam Saul Pally is an American actor and comedian, currently starring as Max Blum in the ABC comedy series Happy Endings.-Life and career:...

, Damon Wayans Jr. and Eliza Coupe

Eliza Coupe

Eliza Coupe is an American actress best known for her role as Denise "Jo" Mahoney in the medical comedy Scrubs, in which she became a regular for the ninth season. Coupe currently stars as Jane Williams in the ABC comedy series Happy Endings.-Career:Coupe grew up in New Hampshire and graduated...

. The show is currently in its second season, which began airing on September 28, 2011.

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2000	Cherry Falls Cherry Falls Cherry Falls is a 2000 horror/thriller film written by Ken Selden and directed by Geoffrey Wright. The film stars Brittany Murphy, Jay Mohr, Michael Biehn and Jesse Bradford.-Plot:...	Mr. Rolly
2002	La vie nouvelle	Seymour
2003	The Mudge Boy The Mudge Boy The Mudge Boy is a 2003 American film produced by Showtime. It was directed by Michael Burke and based on his 1998 short film Fishbelly White, featured in the compilation Boys Life 5. On January 17, 2003 it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and in 2003 and 2004 it made the rounds at several...	Travis
2004	The Prince & Me	John Morgan
2007	The Hitcher The Hitcher (2007 film) The Hitcher is a 2007 horror film starring Sean Bean, Sophia Bush, and Zachary Knighton. It is a remake of the 1986 film of the same name starring Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and C. Thomas Howell. The Hitcher was directed by Dave Meyers and produced by Michael Bay’s production company...	Jim Halsey
2007	Supreme Courtships	Clyde	Made-For-Television
2008	Surfer, Dude	Billo Murphy
2010	Tug Tug (film) Tug is a 2010 Comedy / Romance film by Abram Makowka. Shown at the Newport Beach Film Festival & the Waterfront Film Festival.- Plot :A small town guy tries to decide between staying with his current girlfriend or going back to his psycho ex...	Judd	Post-Production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Ed Ed (TV series) Ed is an NBC television program co-produced by David Letterman's Worldwide Pants Incorporated, NBC Productions, and Viacom Productions that aired from 2000 to 2004....	Stephen	1 Episode
2001	Law & Order Law & Order Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It aired on NBC, and in syndication on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13, 1990, and completed its 20th and final season on May 24,...	Paul Wyler	1 Episode
2004	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced...	Lukas Ian Croft	1 Episode
2005	Life on a Stick Life on a Stick Life on a Stick is an American sitcom that premiered on Fox on March 24, 2005. Thirteen episodes of the show were completed, but Fox only showed the first five before pulling the show due to poor ratings.-Premise:...	Laz Lackerson	Series Regular
2005	Love, Inc. Love, Inc. Love, Inc. may refer to:* Love, Inc. , an American sitcom that aired on UPN from 2005 to 2006.* One of the numerous aliases of the music producer Wolfgang Voigt* Love Inc. , a Canadian band....	Brad	1 Episode
2006	Related	Gary	2 Episodes
2008	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is an American television sitcom that premiered on FX on August 4, 2005. New episodes continue to air on FX, with reruns playing on Comedy Central, general broadcast syndication, and WGN America—the first-ever cable-to-cable syndication deal for a sitcom...	Random Guy	1 Episode
2009	Bones Bones (TV series) Bones is an American crime drama television series that premiered on the Fox Network on September 13, 2005. The show is based on forensic anthropology and forensic archaeology, with each episode focusing on an FBI case file concerning the mystery behind human remains brought by FBI Special Agent...	Chet Newcomb	1 Episode
2009–2010	FlashForward Flashforward A flashforward is an interjected scene that takes the narrative forward in time from the current point of the story in literature, film, television and other media. Flashforwards are often used to represent events expected, projected, or imagined to occur in the future...	Dr. Bryce Varley	Series Regular
2010	House House (TV series) House is an American television medical drama that debuted on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. The show's central character is Dr. Gregory House , an unconventional and misanthropic medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in...	Billy	1 Episode
2011–present	Happy Endings Happy Endings (TV series) Happy Endings is an American television series for the ABC network. The single-camera ensemble comedy premiered on April 13, 2011, as a midseason replacement, with a one-hour premiere of two back-to-back episodes starting at 9:30 pm ET/PT...	Dave Rose	Series Regular

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