Stephen Amell is a Canadian actor. He is best known for portraying Oliver Queen / Green Arrow in the television series Arrow and will portray Casey Jones in the sequel to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role Dramatic Series
Nominations
Teen Choice Award for Choice TV: Liplock, Teen Choice Award for Choice TV: Breakout Star, People's Choice Award for Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Actor, Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actor: Fantasy/Sci-Fi, Teen Choice Award for Choice Summer Movie Star: Male, Gemini Award for Best Ensemble Performanc...
Movies
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, When Calls the Heart, Justice for Natalee Holloway, The Cutting Edge: Fire and Ice, Screamers: The Hunting, Closing the Ring, Code 8
TV Shows
Private Practice, Hung, Rent-a-Goalie, ReGenesis, Arrow, The Flash, Heartland
[on whether the constant attention on his abs detracts from Arrow's other selling points] Listen, I'm not gonna complain about it. I will say that every once in a while I get my back up when the first question is about my abdomen and not about the fact that Time magazine wrote that we might be the best superhero TV show ever. If the show was about my abs, then people would have watched the pilot, created a GIF on the internet, and not watched the second episode. So part of me wants to be, like, Fuck off.
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[on whether his constant shirtless scenes helped to make Arrow successful] Me being shirtless certainly isn't the only element that's made it successful, but it is certainly part of the total equation and I'd be silly to think that it is not. There are different motivations when it comes to going to the gym and the motivation of maintaining the physique you've established on television. And the fact that you are going to be showing it on television - if that's not enough to motivate people then I don't know what would. I'm working out really hard right now because I wasn't shirtless for the first few episodes of the season and then I am shirtless all the time for a long stretch.
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[comparing Justin Hartley's portrayal of Oliver Queen/Green Arrow in Smallville (2001) to his] I think we find Oliver Queen more injured than we saw him before. Other than in name, there are virtually no similarities between [Hartley's version and his version]. It's not to say that one's better than the other, it's just that they're so different, it's almost weird to compare them.
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I'm flattered if any movie role and my name are mentioned in the same sentence, because there haven't been a ton of them.
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I'm still an actor who wants to work all the time.
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When I first broke into the acting industry, I taught spinning classes to support myself.
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I like vocabulary and I actually read a book called 'Word Freak,' which is about a guy who basically went into competitive Scrabble for a year. But having a big vocabulary and being good at Scrabble are not the same thing.
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Fact
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Was one of the three finalists to play Spartacus in the show Spartacus after Andy Whitfield was unable to continue playing the character on the hit show.
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Stephen's great-great-great-grandfather, Benjamin Devitt, was Mayor of Waterloo, Ontario, while Stephen's great-great-grandfather, Louis Jacob Breithaupt, was a manufacturer and political figure in Ontario, who was Mayor of Berlin, Ontario (now Kitchener, Ontario), as was his own father before him. Stephen's great-great-uncle, Louis's son Louis Orville Breithaupt, was an MP in the Canadian Parliament, and then a Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1952 to 1957.
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He is of English, Scottish, German, and approximately one sixteenth French-Canadian, descent. His family's surname, "Amell", was spelled "Hamel" several generations back, and originates in France.
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He is the second Canadian actor to portray Casey Jones in a live action Ninja Turtles film.
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He has played the same character (Oliver Queen / Green Arrow) in four different television series: Arrow (2012), The Flash (2014), Vixen (2015) and Legends of Tomorrow (2016).
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First child, daughter Mavi Alexandra Jean Amell, was born, October 15, 2013, with wife Cassandra Jean.
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