Jake Stormoen is an American actor known for his role as Dagen in the '' Mythica'' film series and as Captain Garret Spears in the fantasy-adventure drama television series '' The Outpost.''

Early life and career

Jacob Leif Stormoen was born in

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, US. to parents of Norwegian descent. Stormoen grew up in Minneapolis along with his younger sister Anna Stormoen. After graduating from high school in the U.S, he enrolled at the

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, Australia, where he obtained a Bsc Arts in Creative Media. After being a waiter for 6 months, he returned to the United States, to Los Angeles, California to pursue a career in acting. Stormoen is friends with

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, the actor who plays Hodor in ''

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'', the friendship developed online whilst in High school, playing

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( WoW). Stormoen later co-starred with Nairn in the Kurt Knight horror thriller film ''The Appearance'' in 2018. In 2015, Stormoen won the 'Best Supporting Actor' award at the Utah Film Festival for his performance as Airk in the fantasy film ''The Christmas Dragon''. Apart from acting, he has also worked as a writer and associate producer in a couple of short films. In 2014, Stormoen landed his first “major” role as Dagen in the Arrowstorm fantasy-adventure drama film '' Mythica: A Quest for Heroes'', a franchise where he starred in 4 more films, '' Mythica: The Necromancer'' and '' Mythica: The Darkspore'' in 2015, then ''Mythica: The Godslayer'' and ''Mythica: The Iron Crown'' in 2016. Stormoen's inherent love for and being a life-long fan of fantasy and science fiction, is the main reason why he enjoys working for the Utah-based production company, Arrowstorm Entertainment, because they specialise in that genre. In 2018, Stormoen continued his success with Arrowstorm Entertainment in a lead role as Captain Garret Spears in

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's fantasy-adventure drama television series '' The Outpost'', alongside Jessica Green and Anand Desai-Barochia.

announced that series 3 of '' The Outpost'' will be extended by a further 13 episodes in 2020. In 2023, he directed '' Mythica: Stormbound'', the sixth film in the '' Mythica_(film_series)''.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Video

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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