Sebastian Stan (born August 13, 1983) is a Romanian actor best known for playing Prince Jack Benjamin on the television drama Kings and Carter Baizen on the book-based television series Gossip Girl.
Stan was born in the Romanian city of Constanţa. At age 8, he and his mother moved to Vienna, Austria where she was employed as a pianist. Four years later (age 12), his mother moved with him to Rockland County, New York after she married the headmast...
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Sebastian Stan (born August 13, 1983) is a Romanian actor best known for playing Prince Jack Benjamin on the television drama Kings and Carter Baizen on the book-based television series Gossip Girl.
Stan was born in the Romanian city of Constanţa. At age 8, he and his mother moved to Vienna, Austria where she was employed as a pianist. Four years later (age 12), his mother moved with him to Rockland County, New York after she married the headmaster of an American private school.
During his years at the Rockland Country Day School, he starred in productions like Harvey, Cyrano de Bergerac, Little Shop of Horrors, Over Here, and West Side Story. He also attended the Stagedoor Manor summer camp where he was introduced to acting and was cast in many camp productions. It was then that he decided to take acting seriously and began to apply for acting programs at several universities.
He was accepted to and attended Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts. This gave him the...
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