Van Hansis Bios
About Van Hansis
Evan Vanfossen Hansis was born on September 25, 1981 in North Adams, Massachusetts to proud parents Roma and Randall. His middle name, Vanfossen, was his mother's maiden name. He moved to Greenfield in the third grade when his mother became a principal in the Gill-Montague Regional School District. He attended Four Corners School and later the Greenfield Center School. Hansis began acting in theater camp as a child. He attended high school at a boarding school called Walnut Hill, in Natick, because, he says, he knew by then he wanted to be an actor "and it was a good school for that." He was able to flex his early acting muscles performing at the Shea Theater.
Hansis graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2004, receiving a BFA in Acting from the School of Drama (he studied in Moscow during his time at CMU). He starred in a number of productions at CMU and later in Williamstown and New York including "The Laramie Project," "On The Razzle" and "Twelfth Night." In 2005, he joined the cast of the CBS-TV daytime drama AS THE WORLD TURNS as gay teen Luke Snyder. He has received two consecutive Daytime Emmy nominations for his role on the show. Van has also appeared in the student film The Time Machine as well as the upcoming The Ladykiller and recently completed a successful Off-Broadway run in the smash hit "Die Mommie Die!" with Charles Busch.
In September 2007, Hansis spoke to Soap Opera Digest about the positive reaction to the Luke and Noah storyline on ATWT: "My personal belief is that the hugely positive reaction says a lot about what we stand for as a country. We need to accept each other and embrace differences of all kinds."
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