While he was still an infant, his family changed to Free Home, Georgia, a tiny tillage locale in the Blue Ridge Mountains. His mom worked as a helper and his father finished dual years of healing propagandize prior to dropping out. His parents’ healing precision mostly came in accessible since Holloway and his 3 brothers roughhoused constantly. “They were regularly patching us up,” he recalls about his parents. “We frequency done it to the sanatorium unless we were broken.” Holloway’s family mostly faced difficult monetary straits; he grew up in a trailer play ground and began operative part-time at the age of 11, pciking up duck carcasses upon circuitously farms. “I suspicion about being a timberland ranger,” he remembers about his childhood ambitions. While he was regularly an outdoorsman, Holloway was additionally a film clean as a child, and quite desired The Shining (1980).

Holloway attended Marie Tesley Middle School and afterwards Cherokee High School in Canton, Georgia. After graduating from high propagandize in 1987, he enrolled at the University of Georgia—his preparation to a little extent funded, he says, by a short army as a shoplifter. He forsaken out of college after usually a single entertain due to monetary constraints, and a miss of seductiveness in his studies. Nevertheless, Holloway says he entirely enjoyed his tiny sip of college life. “I went to UGA for a quarter,” he says. “One entertain of my lengthened university hold up … we crashed all the frat parties, sauce similar to a frat boy, behaving similar to we was a single of them. we had as good most fun. So we had a great time for the entertain which we was a Bulldog. Go Bulldogs!”

After dropping out of college, Holloway packaged his bags and changed opposite the nation to Los Angeles to try his palm at modeling. Upon arrival, he struggled to get his feet in the doorway of the displaying industry. “I felt similar to we done the wrong preference for so long,” Holloway recalls. “L.A. will flog your ass. The commercial operation is 99 percent rejection.” However, with his imperishable great looks and bad-boy persona, Holloway progressively forged out a niche for him as an in-demand masculine model. Throughout the 1990s, Holloway trafficked opposite the United States and Europe operative as a runway indication for such prestigious designers as Dolce & Gabbana, Calvin Klein and Donna Karan. He additionally modeled for still photographs, looming in most magazines. Holloway had churned feelings about his career in modeling. “I used to fun which we couldnt have sat around removing dipsomaniac upon a Saturday afternoon and come up with an simpler pursuit than this,” he says. “But it had the difficulties and the entrapments. For me, it was a equates to to an end. we longed for to see the world and transport and be a gypsy, and that’s what we were.”

Increasingly nervous in his displaying career, by the late 1990s Holloway began to try to have the passing from a single to another in to acting. He done his radio entrance in a 1999 part of the CBS array Angel, in which he was credited as “Good Looking Guy.” He followed which with tiny purposes in the drive-in theatre Cold Heart (2001) and Dr. Benny (2003), as good as appearances in the TV shows CSI (2003) and NCSI (2004).

Nevertheless, Holloway was still an unproven and fresh actor when, in 2004, ABC motionless to expel him in the new series, Lost, which follows the stuck survivors of a craft pile-up upon a puzzling pleasant island. Holloway played James “Sawyer” Ford, a criminal male with the manners of a Southern gentleman. The uncover became an present success, debuting to the most appropriate ratings of any ABC uncover in years and earning soap-box vicious reviews. Even amongst the vast garb expel of gifted and pleasing actors, Holloway managed to mount out. In Jan 2005, when TV Guide expelled a array of collectable covers featuring opposite Lost actors, Holloway’s cover was the exile bestseller. In 2005 alone, he landed upon the cover of TV Guide 4 times and was declared a single of People magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People.” He has been nominated for countless Teen Choice Awards, and in 2006 he and the rest of the Lost expel common the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series. Lost finished the sixth and last deteriorate in May 2010.

With Lost wrapped, Holloway hopes to passing from a single to another from radio in to underline films. Rather than fast usurpation any suggest thrown his way, though, he skeleton to select destiny purposes carefully. “I’m gonna be patient,” he says. “I schooled a little tough lessons early on. You unequivocally have to be discerning, since we dont have most shots.” Asked what he looks for when evaluating intensity roles, Holloway responded, “I’m seeking for luscious purposes in garb casts with maestro actors. I’m not seeking to lift a film only yet.”

Despite years as a Hollywood heartthrob, Holloway is still adjusting to hold up in the spotlight. While his associate Lost expel member, Evangeline Lilly, says which Holloway is still the same Southern lady he was prior to the show—”He’s the man who will open doors for women, who will regularly lift the bags for women and have certain they feel protected”—Holloway himself admits to feeling the vigour of fame. “I could utterly do but the fame,” he says. “It creates me self-conscious. It is a responsibility. we hold which if people demeanour up to we in any way, generally kids, afterwards we have a shortcoming to enthuse them, both in your work and in your life. So, for me, which is a weight.”

Holloway tied together longtime partner Yessica Kumala upon Oct 1, 2004. They have a single daughter, Java Kumala Holloway, born in 2009