A Missouri native who left college after a year, he moved to New York at nineteen to train at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and briefly worked as a model, appearing in an Abercrombie & Fitch catalog photographed by Bruce Weber. His screen debut arrived in 2000 with The Broken Hearts Club, and the same year he secured a recurring role as Ben on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, appearing in fourteen ep…