Rider Strong's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Boy Meets World Shawn Hunter Kim Possible Brick Flagg Pepper Dennis Chick Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Pvt. Carl J… Going Places David Julie Adam

Main Movie Roles 2009 - Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever 2009 - H2O Extreme 2008 - Spy School 2007 - Borderland 2007 - Tooth & Nail 2002 - Cabin Fever 1998 - My Giant 1993 - Benefit of the Doubt

BIOGRAPHY:

Rider King Strong was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Lin (née Warner), a teacher and nutritionist, and King Strong, a firefighter. He graduated from high school in Sebastopol, California in 1997. His brother is Shiloh Strong, an actor and still photographer.
Strong began his acting career at the young age of nine, when he starred as Gavroche in the San Francisco production of Les Misérables. After the stage production, he appeared in small screen roles on television. In 1992, he received his first regular television series role as Julie Andrews's son on Julie. When the series was canceled, Strong made his debut on film as Amy Irving's son in Benefit of the Doubt. It was not until he was chosen for the role of Shawn Hunter in the ABC series Boy Meets World that he received widespread recognition.
During the seven year run he was nominated twice for the Young Artist Award and nominated for a Hollywood Reporter YoungStar Award. When the series ended, Strong returned to the big screen to star as Paul in the indie horror film Cabin Fever, directed by Eli Roth. In 2006, he returned to television for a regular series role in Pepper Dennis on the WB. The show was short-lived and was not chosen as one of the transferring shows to The CW Television Network. He has a brief cameo appearance in Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever, the sequel to Cabin Fever. It was released in 2009.
Along with his brother, Shiloh Strong, he wrote and directed the short film, Irish Twins, which premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival. It went on to win both the Jury Award and Audience Award at the Woods Hole Film Festival, a Special Jury Prize in the Action/Cut Short Film Competition and Best First-Time Director at DC Shorts. Speaking to Pure Movies in 2010 he expressed that he wanted to expand his writing and directing career: 'Acting is always there and I enjoy it but it’s kind of got a little unfulfilling lately. You know, I’m in the low budget horror world… I have a whole lot of other stuff I want to do.’
In April 2008, Strong co-created (with his brother and his girlfriend, actress Alexandra Barreto) a 30-second television ad in support of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, titled "It Could Happen to You." The ad, submitted to MoveOn.org, became one of 15 finalists from a pool of over 1,100 submitted ads, and was chosen as the funniest ad in May 2008. In August, MoveOn raised $200,000 to air the ad on MTV and Comedy Central; it was the first political commercial to ever appear on Comedy Central. In early 2009, Strong performed the audiobook of The Obama Revolution by Alan Kennedy-Shaffer. Strong stars 2010 in the Science Fiction-Thriller Film "The Darkening Sky" alongside Ezra Buzzington, Charley Rossman, Sally Berman, Daniel Kirschner and LaShan Anderson under the direction from Victor Bornia


TRIVIA:

• Along with 'Ben Savage (I)' (qv), he is one of the only two actors to appear in all 158 episodes of _"Boy Meets World" (1993)_ (qv).
• Has two cats named Memphis and December.
• Younger brother of actor 'Shiloh Strong' (qv)
• Dated actress 'Rachael Leigh Cook' (qv)
• His favorite actor is 'Ethan Hawke' (qv).
• Donated money to support a wolf cub and the integration of wolves back into Yellowstone National Park.
• Parents: Lin and King Strong
• Is a vegetarian.