Travis Van Winkle

Travis Scott Van Winkle (born November 4, 1982) is an American actor. He will portray Cary on You.

Early life
He was born in Victorville, California, the middle of three children of Sally (née Fitzgerald) and Charles Van Winkle. He remained in Victorville until he was two years old, and then moved to Oscoda, Michigan. When he was eight, his family moved again to Peachtree City, Georgia, where he graduated from McIntosh High School and attended the University of West Georgia but did not graduate, leaving at age 20 to pursue his acting endeavors in Hollywood.

Career
He made his television debut in a December 2004 episode of the Fox sitcom Quintuplets, and has since appeared in shows such as That's So Raven, Malcolm in the Middle, The O.C., and 7th Heaven. His film credits include one of the leads in Fox's Meet the Spartans, David R. Ellis's film Asylum, Universal's Accepted and Michael Bay's Transformers. While he has modeled for Abercrombie & Fitch shot by Bruce Weber, he appeared in New Line/Paramount's 2009 reboot of Friday the 13th (another Bay production) as Trent Sutton DeMarco, the character he previously portrayed in Transformers. In an interview with Fearnet, he said that he was very hyped about the film, and enjoyed playing in it. He also appeared in Julianne Hough's 2008 music video for "That Song in My Head".

In 2011, he starred in the suspense thriller film 247°F co-starring Scout Taylor-Compton. In 2012, he starred in the independent comedy Last Call about two underachieving cousins, Danny (Van Winkle) and Phil have to prove themselves when they are charged with managing the family pub, in a bid to save their wayward uncle from prison and financial ruin. He starred as Greg in the thriller Bloodwork co-starring Tricia Helfer.

In 2011 and 2012, he made guest appearances in television series such as Happy Endings, 2 Broke Girls, and Two and a Half Men. In October 2012, he was cast as Lieutenant Daniel Joshua "Danny" Green, leader of the Naval Mountain Warfare Special Forces Unit aboard the Nathan James, in the TNT action drama pilot The Last Ship, also executively produced by Bay. The series premiered on TNT on 22 June 2014. In December 2012, he was cast in a recurring role as Jonah on the second season of The CW's series Hart of Dixie.

In 2014, he starred as Coke in the comedy film Mantervention. He guest starred in an episode of Scorpion, where he played Ensign Nathan Hall, who gets trapped with Walter (Elyes Gabel), Happy (Jadyn Wong) and Cabe (Robert Patrick) in a downed submarine and must figure out how to escape before they run out of air. In 2015, he starred in the PixL original movie Bound & Babysitting alongside Tammin Sursok.

In 2017, he starred as Scott Hays in Hallmark channel original movie Christmas Getaway alongside Bridget Regan.

In October 2020, it was announced that he had been cast in the main role of Cary on the third season of the Netflix thriller series You.

Personal life
He is a member of the Baháʼí Faith.