Channon Roe

Acting

Channon Roe

Born 1969-10-27 · Pasadena, California, USA

James Channon Roe (born October 27, 1969) is an American former actor. He began his film and television career in the mid-1990s. He first appeared on TV series My So-Called Life as Logan in 1994. Roe began his acting career in independent films, including The Low Life and Junked. Roe was born in Pasadena, California, but raised in Corona del Mar before training as an actor at the Joanne Baron / D.W. Brown Acting Studio and then at the British Academy of Dramatic Arts. Roe began his film and television career in the mid-1990s. He first appeared on TV series My So-Called Life as Billy in 1994 and his acting career in independent films including "The Low Life" and "Junked". In 1996, Roe starred as the lead character "Cash", leader of the Gangrel Clan of vampires, in the cult television series Kindred: The Embraced. Bio-Dome and Soldier Boys soon followed in Person's Unknown, alongside Naomi Watts, Kelly Lynch, Joe Mantegna and directed by George Hickenlooper, and Academy Award-nominated Boogie Nights. Channon Roe has appeared in over 35 television series to date, including recurring performances such as Dirt starring Courteney Cox as Jeff Stagliano, the Indie Director who impregnates a very disturbed Shannyn Sossamon, and Windfall as Jeremy. Roe has also appeared on The OC, 24, Prison Break, Bones, CSI: Miami, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, Going to California, Without a Trace, NYPD Blue, Diagnosis Murder, Touched by an Angel, The Pretender, Fugitive, Spawn and HeadCase. In 2008, Roe completed filming on two new projects, a pilot for A&E Television alongside Henry Thomas and Behind Enemy Lines: Columbia. Roe appeared as Riley Maker on the TNT crime drama series Murder in the First in 2015, then Roe retired from his acting career.

Acting credits

Boogie Nights poster
7.6

In 1977, an idealistic porn producer and his promising protege try to catch up with the end of an era before their never-ending party collides with cold, hard reality.

Boogie Nights

1997

Bio-Dome poster
4.6

Moronic best friends get themselves locked inside the Bio-Dome, a science experiment, along with a group of environmental scientists for one year.

Bio-Dome

1996

Can't Hardly Wait poster
6.3

It's graduation day at Huntington Hills High, and you know what that means - time to party. And not just any party, either. This one will be a night to remember, as the nerds become studs, the jocks are humiliated, and freshman crushes blossom into grown-up romance.

Can't Hardly Wait

1998

Chasing Mavericks poster
7.0

Surfer Jay Moriarity sets out to ride the Northern California break known as Mavericks.

Chasing Mavericks

2012

Girl poster
5.0

A sheltered, straight-A high school senior, Andrea Marr, becomes infatuated with a local rock singer, Todd Sparrow, and dives into the underground music scene, neglecting her friends and academic life in the process.

Girl

1998

Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia poster
5.6

Navy SEALS mount an attack on Colombian special forces to clear their names and rescue a hostage.

Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia

2009

Persons Unknown poster
5.5

When former cop and current security expert Jim Holland has a one night stand with Amanda after getting in her way roller-blading. That introduction turns out to be a well thought out plan by Amanda and her sister Molly, to obtain security codes. The girls and their cohorts rob his client and stash the loot. All the while, detective Jim has been following them and he grabs the money for himself. Then his conscience gets the best of him and he falls in love with Molly. His client turns out to be drug dealers and he's forced to risk his life to protect Molly and Amanda.

Persons Unknown

1996

Marshal Law poster
4.0

A former cop in Texas comes into action when a gang threatens his family.

Marshal Law

1996

The Courtyard poster
4.7

Architect Jonathan moves into an LA courtyard apartment complex; then one of his neighbors is murdered ... by mistake ... Jonathan was the intended victim!

The Courtyard

1995

Psycho Beach Party poster
5.7

Chicklet is a sixteen-year old tomboy who's desperate to be part of the in-crowd of Malibu beach surfers. She's the typical American girl - except for one little problem: her personality is split into more slices than a pepperoni pizza.

Psycho Beach Party

2000

Angels Don't Sleep Here poster
2.8

A man is accused of murder and manipulated into a web of deceit as his thought-to-be dead twin brother plots revenge on those who tried to kill him.

Angels Don't Sleep Here

2002

Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders poster
5.6

Kenneth Bianchi, one of the two serial rapists and killers who terrorized the Los Angeles area in the late 1970s, is giving police station interviews to psychiatrist Samantha Stone, who has disquieting lifestyle issues of her own. It falls to her to delve into the details of the case to determine the veracity of Bianchi's claims of multiple personality disorder, but in so doing, she is forced to relive the horrific crimes, one of which occurs at her very doorstep.

Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders

2006

Full Blast poster
4.0

Maceo is the manager of Motown's most popular club, the Motorfly. Business is going well, but Maceo has huge game debts that entrap him in the loops of the Detroit Mafia net.

Full Blast

2000

Soldier Boyz poster
4.8

A group of prisoners are going to Vietnam to rescue the daughter of a V-I.P. The Ones who survive get their freedom back...but hell awaits them.

Soldier Boyz

1995

Beautiful Dreamer poster
5.5

Claire Kelly was sure her world had been torn apart forever when the love of her life, a B-24 pilot, is shot down over Europe during World War II and declared dead. When she learns her husband survived the crash, Claire is determined to find Joe and bring him home.

Beautiful Dreamer

2006

Sketch Artist II: Hands That See poster
6.0

Police sketch artist Jack Whitfield helps blind rape victim Emmy describe her attacker – a serial rapist and murderer who is now out to get her.

Sketch Artist II: Hands That See

1995

Kiss & Tell poster
3.4

A performance artist turns up dead with a carrot up her butt by LAX. Three detectives interview her friends to find out who killed her and why.

Kiss & Tell

1997

Junked poster
3.3

A bisexual hustler tries to survive on the streets with the help of his prostitute sister and a drug-dealing friend.

Junked

1999

No artwork available
NR

An eloquent cowboy, four criminals, and a delicious bag of tortilla chips.

The Liars Chair

2014

Dante's View poster
5.3

Sam, a young blonde from the wrong side of the tracks robs a sports memorabilia store with a friend who gets shot. She flees with the loot, some very rare cards related to baseball. When her car breaks down in a remote corner of California, she meets June, a young woman who dreams of change.

Dante's View

1998

Stir poster
4.6

A woman searches for clues that led to the murder of her scientist husband whom was experimenting with a possible AIDS vaccine.

Stir

1997

Buried Secrets poster
6.1

A young woman moves with her mother to her mother's hometown and is haunted by the ghost of a dead teenager.

Buried Secrets

1996

The Low Life poster
5.4

Yale graduate John has come to Hollywood to catch his big break. It hasn't happened yet.

The Low Life

1995

Mi Amigo poster
6.0

Thirty years after separating when their friendship is harmed by a mutual love of the same woman, two friends, Bobby Ray and Pal, return to their hometown to settle old debts.

Mi Amigo

2002