Ryan McPartlin ( born July 3, 1975 ) is an American actor, best known for his role as Devon " Captain Awesome " Woodcomb on NBC's Chuck.

McPartlin has been mostly known for his role as Hank Bennett on the popular soap opera Passions, replacing Dalton James from April 2001 until April 2004.

Byker Grove launched the careers of Anthony McPartlin (" P. J.

On 11 March 2008, it was reported that Gallowgate Productions TV, the TV production company owned by Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, purchased the rights to Byker Grove after the production company that made it ( Zenith Entertainment ) went into liquidation in 2007.

Anthony McPartlin ( born 18 November 1975 ) and Declan Donnelly ( born 25 September 1975 ), known collectively as Ant & Dec, are an English comedy and TV presenting duo from Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

Anthony McPartlin was born on 18 November 1975 and Declan Donnelly was born on 25 September 1975.

The award was " mistakenly given " to Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway even though The Catherine Tate Show received the most tabulated votes and should have been declared the winner, and Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly ( Ant & Dec ) were asked to return their 2005 award.

It was understood that he would be happy do so if the recipients were Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly.

In 2010 Jack Lukeman broke new ground by collaborating with writer Anna McPartlin on her new book " So What if I'm Broken ", where each chapter of the book was inspired by one of Lukeman's songs.

He cast Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly as teenage heroes P. J.

As a former pupil of Gosforth High School, Donna attended the Drama School at First Act in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, where she was a pupil alongside Jill Halfpenny, Anthony McPartlin, and Declan Donnelly.

The event was aired on Sky One, presented by Kirsty Gallacher and Jamie Theakston and created by Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly.

McPartlin was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Steve and Lois McPartlin.

McPartlin graduated with a degree in speech communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

After six months in Australia and New Zealand, McPartlin moved to Southern California to pursue acting as a career.

McPartlin spent years as an Abercrombie and Fitch model.

McPartlin worked with Drescher again as Riley Martin on the television sitcom Living with Fran.

McPartlin is a board certified personal trainer.

Variety reported that Cruz had originally auditioned for the role of the film within a film's star, Claudia, which eventually went to Nicole Kidman.

Emilio Estevez originally auditioned for the role of John Bender.

Smith originally auditioned for the role of Bart but Pietila believed her voice was too high.

Derminer originally auditioned as a bass guitarist ( a role which he held briefly in 1963, with Smith switching to guitar to replace Vargo and with Bob Gaspar replacing LeDuc ), though they quickly realized that his talents could be better used as a lead singer: though not conventionally attractive and rather paunchy by traditional frontman standards, he nonetheless had a commanding stage presence, and a booming baritone voice that evidenced his abiding love of American soul and gospel music.

Cattrall was unwilling to be the third actress to play Saavik ( a part she had originally auditioned for ), but accepted the role when she became a different character.

DiMaggio originally auditioned for the role of Professor Farnsworth, using the voice he uses to perform Bender, and also auditioned for Bender using a different voice.

Shimerman originally auditioned for the role of Flutie, but lost that role to Ken Lerner.

Monaghan originally auditioned for the role of Sawyer.

They soon added lead guitarist Lita Ford who had originally auditioned for the bass spot.

Lead singer Cherie Currie was found and recruited in a local teen nightclub called the Sugar Shack, followed by Jackie Fox ( who had originally auditioned for the lead guitar spot ) on bass.

Barrie, who had originally auditioned for Lister, was familiar with Rob Grant and Doug Naylor having worked together on Son of Cliché and Spitting Image, and with the producers on Happy Families and various Jasper Carrott productions.

Thorne-Smith originally auditioned for the title role in the show, which ultimately went to Calista Flockhart.

" During " Hollywood Week ", several cuts took place, eliminating all but 20 of the children and teens who originally auditioned.

George Wendt and John Ratzenberger originally auditioned for the same role, George, and Wendt was hired.

Robinson was offered the role of Garak after he originally auditioned for the role of Odo, which eventually went to Rene Auberjonois.

Kemp joked that he originally auditioned to play the part of Wellard the dog.

" He sleeps with many of the interns and extras on shows on which he works ( Although he was prepared to decline an offer to have sex with a casting agent because he wanted to be cast for his acting skills rather than his sexual performance ; his integrity prompted the agent to give him a bigger part than the one he originally auditioned for, but he still slept with her to get it ).

He originally auditioned using his Bender voice for the role of Professor Farnsworth and used a voice later used for URL the police robot for Bender.

When the series was in its first development stages, Shannen Doherty, an actress from a previous Spelling Television series, Beverly Hills, 90210, originally auditioned for the role of Piper while former Picket Fences actress Holly Marie Combs auditioned for the role of Prue Halliwell.

When the series was in its first development stages, former Picket Fences actress Holly Marie Combs auditioned for the role of Prue while Shannen Doherty, an actress from a previous Spelling Television series, Beverly Hills, 90210, originally auditioned for the role of Piper Halliwell.

Although West auditioned for the part it was originally given to Charlie Schlatter ; however, after a casting change he was offered the job.

The show, for which Powell auditioned, was originally titled " Yours Truly, Lloyd London ," although the name of the show and its lead character were apparently changed before the audition tape of December 6, 1948, was actually recorded.

Even so apparently impartial a critic as W. H. Frohock has taken for granted that the book was originally intended as a piece of Loyalist propaganda ; ;

First of all there was the parsonage, an utterly impossible place for civilized people to live in, originally poorly conceived, apparently not repaired for years, with no plumbing or sewage, with rat-holes and rot.

If, on the other hand, they opted for representation, it had to be representation per se -- representation as image pure and simple, without connotations ( at least, without more than schematic ones ) of the three-dimensional space in which the objects represented originally existed.

This table originally indicates that index words 1 through 96 and electronic switches 1 through 30 are available for assignment to symbolic references ; ;

Man's life, originally shaped for immortality and for communion with God, must now be conformed to the shape of death.

The term was originally coined in the 19th century by the founding sociologist and philosopher of science, Auguste Comte, and has become a major topic for psychologists ( especially evolutionary psychology researchers ), evolutionary biologists, and ethologists.

The American Standard Code for Information Interchange ( ASCII, ;) is a character-encoding scheme originally based on the English alphabet.

The " elf-shot " originally indicated disease or death attributed to the elves, but it was later attested denoting arrow-heads which were used by witches to harm people, and also for healing rituals.

Ward had originally written the music, Materna, for the hymn O Mother dear, Jerusalem in 1882, though it was not first published until 1892.

The " air servosystem " which Kokoro Co. developed originally is used for the actuator.

Some amateur astronomers use home-made radio telescopes, while others use radio telescopes that were originally built for astronomy research but have since been made available for use by amateurs.

His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).

The name is derived from the type genus Apium, which was originally used by Pliny the Elder circa 50 AD for a celery-like plant.

The adaptions are notable for changing the plots and characters of the original books ( e. g., incorporating lesbian affairs, changing killer identities, renaming or removing significant characters, and even using stories from other books in which Miss Marple did not originally feature ).

When abbreviating words that are originally spelled with lower case letters, there is no need for capitalisation.

It was originally designed for a middle-class family and situated in a prosperous district of Barcelona.

The Apple I went on sale in July 1976 at a price of, because Wozniak " liked repeating digits " and because they originally sold it to a local shop for $ 500 plus a one-third markup.

The two terms may not have originally been distinguished ; though in Homer's poems nectar is usually the drink and ambrosia the food of the gods ; it was with ambrosia Hera " cleansed all defilement from her lovely flesh ", and with ambrosia Athena prepared Penelope in her sleep, so that when she appeared for the final time before her suitors, the effects of years had been stripped away and they were inflamed with passion at the sight of her.

Yet we may with better reason suppose that it came originally from a foreign mythology, and that the accident of its numerical value in Greek merely caused it to be singled out at Alexandria for religious use.

ALGOL ( short for ALGOrithmic Language ) is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in the mid 1950s which greatly influenced many other languages and was the standard method for algorithm description used by the ACM, in textbooks, and academic works for the next 30 years and more.