Jeff Branson

Jeffrey Dale Branson was born on March 10, 1977, in St. Louis, Missouri.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0105226 He was raised in the Ozarks and then moved to New York where he attended the American Musical & Dramatic Academy.http://www.ispitonyourgravemovie.com As of 2010, Branson resides in Los Angeles.http://www.ispitonyourgravemovie.com

Branson stars in the 2010 film I Spit On Your Grave, an unrated remake of a 1978 cult horror film of the same title.http://www.ispitonyourgravemovie.com In the film, Branson plays a member of a gang of thugs who torture and rape a female novelist (played by Sarah Butler) and then leave her for dead. She then returns to exact violent revenge.http://www.ispitonyourgravemovie.com

When he is not acting, Branson is involved in charitable work with Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.http://www.ispitonyourgravemovie.com

Following his graduation from the American Musical & Dramatic Institute, Jeff Branson landed a number of Off-Broadway roles and appearances on television series such as Law & Order: SVU, Strangers with Candy, and Without a Trace.http://www.ispitonyourgravemovie.com The actor also worked in daytime television soaps, receiving Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor for both All My Children (2005) and Guiding Light (2009); he won in 2009.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0105226/awards In 2010, Branson joined the cast of The Young and the Restless.http://sn.soapnet.go.com/news/article/jeff-branson-cast-the-young-and-the-restless

In addition to 2010's I Spit On Your Grave, Branson has had feature credits in Tom Dicillo's Delirious, Shaft and The Big Bad Swim.http://www.ispitonyourgravemovie.com

• 2000: Strangers with Candy (TV series)
• 2000: Shaft (Feature) as Walter's Friend
• 2002: Wolves of Wall Street (Feature) as Tyler
• 2005: Building Girl (Feature) as Mark
• 2005: Four Lane Highway (Feature) as Andy
• 2006: The Big Bad Swim (Feature) as Noah Owens
• 2006: Delirious (Feature) as TV Soap Star
• 2004-2007: All My Children (TV series) as Jonathan Lavery
• 2008-2009: Guiding Light (TV series) as Shayne Lewis
• 2010: I Spit On Your Grave (Feature) as Johnny
• 2010: The Young and the Restless (TV series) as Ronan Malloyhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0105226

• "I had to work my a** off to get ready for this picture because I swam before, but I almost drowned when I was a teenager, trying to swim across a very large cove in the lake I grew up on. I got back in the water like a year-and-a-half, two years later. But I had literally almost drowned. A friend of mine saved my life and brought me back to shore."—on playing a professional swimmer in the independent film The Big Bad Swimhttp://www.soapoperadigest.com/features/all-my-children/interviews/jeffbranson06
• "It's nerve-wracking. I've heard about this kind of thing happening, but I don't know how people get through it. They're gonna sit me right up front and hopefully, the theater is going to be packed. I'm scared, but I think it's gonna be exciting."—on attending his first feature film premierehttp://www.soapoperadigest.com/features/all-my-children/interviews/jeffbranson06
• "I'm disappointed that none of our women got nominated because they're all phenomenal -- phenomenal actresses and beautiful women. But just their work it speaks for itself. And I would have loved to have seen them in the mix. But being the show's last year, I'm really proud to represent it on the way out."—on his Emmy nomination for Guiding Lighthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWNUsggtVA8M