A. J. Buckley Canadian Actor Born 1977 in Dublin

Early life

Alan John Buckley, known professionally as A. J. Buckley, was born on 9 February 1977 in Dublin, Ireland. His family emigrated to Canada when he was six, settling in White Rock, British Columbia. He attended St. Thomas More Collegiate in Burnaby, near Vancouver. He started acting as a teenager, first in the television series The Odyssey and then in guest roles on The X-Files and Millennium.

Career

Buckley's first film credit on record is the 1998 thriller Disturbing Behavior. He followed it with Convergence (1999) and several films in the early 2000s, among them The In Crowd (2000), Motocrossed (2001, as Jimmy Bottles), XCU: Extreme Close Up (2001), Extreme Days (2001), Blue Car, Wishcraft, 100 Women and Nightstalker (all 2002), Silent Warnings and Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision (both 2003) and In Enemy Hands (2004). Extreme Days, a comedy-drama-romance from 2001, was an independent film in which he had a leading role.

His television career is tied to the CSI franchise. In 2004 he appeared as a different character in an episode of the original CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. He was then offered the part of the crime lab technician Adam Ross on CSI: NY. It was meant as a recurring role, but near the end of the show's third season, in 2007, he was offered a five-year contract, and he stayed with the series until 2013. In 2006 an episode of the show in which he featured drew considerable online attention, and he was invited to join a virtual premiere event for the film Jimmy and Judy as a guest host and panellist.

During those years he took other parts. He appeared in Supernatural between 2006 and 2014, and in 2007 he played Danny Schamus in the film The Box. He played Ace Brunell in The Mentalist, which began in 2008. In 2010 he appeared in the film Skateland and in Hawaii Five-0, and in 2011 he was in the film Doomsday Prophecy. In 2015 he took the role of Kevin Brady in the Netflix series Narcos and appeared in the film Home Sweet Hell, and he voiced the character Nash in Pixar's The Good Dinosaur.

In 2017 he began a long run as the Navy SEAL Sonny Quinn on SEAL Team. The series ran for four seasons on CBS and then moved to Paramount+ for its fifth and sixth seasons, and his role on it ran until 2024. Also in 2017 he appeared in the series Pure and in the film Sergio and Sergei, the most recent title among his listed credits. His credits on record number 26, 19 of them films and seven of them television series, covering the years from 1998 to 2017. In 2019 he played on the "Away" team in the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game, held at the Bojangles' Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Personal life

Buckley has three children.