Kevin Sorbo

American actor known for the TV series "Hercules." He started lifting weights in high school in Mound, MN to develop his great chest, 6' 3" and 215 lbs. He now watches his diet and spends over an hour a day in a Fitness Gym in Auckland, New Zealand where his winning show is filmed. The hour-long action show is the highest-rated action series in 1996, airs in 65 countries, and shows the adventures of a mythic pre-Hellenic superhero in high camp, swashbuckling style.

The fourth of five kids, Kevin was the son of a high-school teacher and a nurse. Since he was 11, he wanted to be an actor. Instead, he studied marketing at the University of Minnesota. Then he followed a girlfriend to Europe, where he began a modeling career that in turn, led to doing many commercials. When he moved to Los Angeles in 1986, his spots for Budweiser, Diet Coke and BMW paid the bills. He appeared in a few TV pilots, then in 1993, on his 35th birthday, "Hercules" producers decided that he was exactly what they were looking for. Sorbo was very confident growing up and had no doubt that he would make it as an actor: "I know it sounds corny-call it destiny or whatever..;" his positive attitude paid off and resulted in several movies and the series.

Sorbo broke up with his girlfriend Erin Dodson in January 1995. He married Sam Jenkins (noted for her starring role on "Chicago Hope") on 1/05/1998 in Pacific Palisades, CA; it is the first marriage for both of them. Their daughter Deborah Grimes was born on 8/22/2001, Henderson, NV. The couple live in the Las Vegas area.

Sorbo's health took a turn for the worse when, on 9/05/1997, he was hospitalized for an aneurysm in his left shoulder; he did not undergo surgery. The aneurysm did force Sorbo to abandon his role in the film, "Black Dog" to heal from the injury before going back to his TV show, "Hercules: Legendary Journeys," where he often spends 12 to 16 hours a day on the set, a lot of those hours doing stunts.