Cameron Mathison

Cameron Arthur Mathison (born August 25, 1969)[1] is a Canadian-American actor and television host. From 1997 to 2011, he played the role of Ryan Lavery on All My Children.

Cameron Mathison
Mathison in 2008
Born	August 25, 1969 Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
Alma mater	McGill University
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1997–present
Spouse(s)	Vanessa Mathison ​ (m. 2002)​
Children	2

Early life and personal life

Born on August 25, 1969, in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada,[1] the second of two sons of parents Bill and Loretta.[2] Mathison attended Thornlea Secondary School in Thornhill, Ontario and McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. He graduated in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering.[3]

On July 27, 2002, he married model Vanessa Marie Arevalo, having proposed in Vail, Colorado.[4] They have a son, Lucas (b. April 20, 2003), and a daughter, Leila (b. July 7, 2006).[2]

On September 9, 2019, he announced that he had been diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma and would be taking several weeks off to receive treatment.[5]

Career

After graduating from McGill, he began working as a model and started acting in commercials in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. This led to taking acting classes and the beginning of his acting career in Toronto.

Mathison made his feature film debut in 54. He followed up this appearance with a leading role in the Canadian independent movie Washed Up. About this time, December 1997, he was hired to play the role of Ryan Lavery on All My Children filming his first scenes on December 15. Mathison first appeared on-screen in the January 12, 1998 episode.

Mathison won the Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Male Newcomer in 1999[6] and earned Daytime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in 2002[7] and 2005.[8] In 2000, Mathison was named by People magazine as one of "America's 100 Most Eligible Bachelors".[9]

In 2007, Cameron was on season five of Dancing with the Stars where he placed 5th with pro Edyta Śliwińska.[10][11]

After working freelance with Good Morning America for several years, Mathison signed with GMA in January 2009 as a regular correspondent. Mathison worked on many events for GMA: The Oscars, Grammys, Golden Globes, American Music Awards, MTV Movie Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, and the Country Music Awards. Mathison continued to work as a host and correspondent for GMA, the Emmy-nominated series Ultimate Proposal,[12] and the renovation reality show Game of Homes.[13][14][15]

Mathison also continues to act in both comedic and dramatic roles. He has appeared on Castle, Desperate Housewives, Hot in Cleveland, Drop Dead Diva, the EXes, and numerous independent and television movies. In 2014, Mathison joined the Hallmark/Crown Media family. Mathison signed on to appear in 9 movies based on the Murder She Baked novels starring opposite Alison Sweeney.[16][17]

In April 2015, Mathison signed with CBS's Entertainment Tonight. He is currently serving as a full-time correspondent and weekend co-anchor for the entertainment newsmagazine.[18] On July 26, 2018, Mathison was named the new co-host of Home and Family, alongside Debbie Matenopoulos; he assumed his position in September with the launch of the seventh season.[19]

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	54	Atlanta	Miramax
2000	Washed Up	Conman	Independent

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Any Mother's Son	Rich Eastman	TV Movie
1997	F/X: The Series	Masked Man	Episode: "House of Horrors"
1998	The Defenders: Choice of Evils	Mike Murphy	TV Movie
1998–2011	All My Children	Ryan Lavery	ABC-TV
2002	The Job	Brad	Episode: "Telescope"
2002	The Drew Carey Show	Kirk	Episode: "Kate's Wedding"
2003	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Danny Pasqualle	Episode: "Recipe for Murder"
2003	JAG	Lt. Stanley Mitchell	Episode: "Empty Quiver"
2003	What I Like About You	Noah	Episode: "The Fix Up"
2003	See Jane Date	Gary Babcock	TV Movie
2004	Hope & Faith	Dillon Smith	3 episodes
2004–2007	I Wanna Be a Soap Star	Host	Soapnet
2006	Daytime Emmy Awards	Host	ABC-TV
2006–2008	Instant Beauty Pageant	Host	Style Network[20]
2008	Your Place or Mine	Host	TLC
2008	Daytime Emmy Awards	Host	ABC-TV[21][22][23]
2009–2015	Good Morning America	Correspondent & Host	ABC-TV
2011	Castle	Vince Powers	Episode: "One Life to Lose"
2012	Desperate Housewives	Greg	Episode: "What's the Good of Being Good"
2012	Drop Dead Diva	Jonah Pierce	Episode: "Pick's and Pakes"
2012	The Wife He Met Online	Bryant Meyers	Lifetime TV Movie[24][25]
2013	The Surrogate	Jacob Kelly	Independent[26][27]
2013	The Carpenter's Miracle	Josh Camden	TV Movie[28]
2013	The Christmas Ornament	Tim Pierce	Hallmark Channel TV Movie
2013	Window Wonderland	Kenneth	Hallmark Channel TV Movie
2013	Holidaze	Carter	TV Movie[29]
2013	Hot in Cleveland	Bill	Episode: "The Anger Games"
2013	Belle's	PR Rep	Episode: "One Big Happy Family"
2014	Game of Homes	Host	W Network
2014	The Exes	Rob Lutz	Episode: "Oh Brother Here Art Thou"
2014	Along Came a Nanny	Mike Logan	Hallmark Movies & Mysteries TV Movie[30][31][32]
2014	My Gal Sunday	Henry Parker	Hallmark Movies & Mysteries TV Movie[33]
2015–2017	Murder, She Baked series	Mike Kingston	Hallmark Movies & Mysteries TV Movie series; 5 movies [34]
2016	A Christmas To Remember	John Blake	Hallmark Movies & Mysteries TV Movie[35]
2017	At Home in Mitford	Tim Kavanaugh	Hallmark Channel TV Movie [36]
2018	Very, Very Valentine	Henry	Hallmark Channel TV Movie
2018	A Summer to Remember	Will	Hallmark Channel TV Movie [37]
2018–	Home and Family	Co-host	Hallmark Channel
2018	Love, Of Course	Noah Ferris	Hallmark Channel TV Movie [38]
2019	The Christmas Club	Edward Taylor	Hallmark Channel TV Movie

Web

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2011–2012	Ultimate Proposal[39]	Host	Fishbowl Media
2012	Dallas Behind the Scenes	Host	TNT
2012–2013	Backstage Pass to the Oscars[40]	Host

References

1. "Cameron Mathison Biography". TVGuide.com. [Cameron Arthur Mathison Archived] Check |archiveurl= value (help) from the original on December 11, 2011.
2. "Cameron Mathison". Soap Opera Digest. Archived from the original on May 2, 2019. Retrieved September 10, 2019.
3. "Five Things You Didn't Know About Cameron Mathison". TVOvermind. 13 September 2017.
4. Mathison, Cameron (July 27, 2017). "#tbt to July 27 2002". Cameron Mathison verified Instagram account. this photo was taken moments after we said 'I do'.
5. "Hallmark Channel host Cameron Mathison reveals he is battling renal cancer". WGN-TV. 2019-09-11. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
6. "Soap Opera Digest 1999". Soap Opera Digest. 14 April 2003.
7. "Here are the Daytime Emmy nominations". EntertainmentWeekly. 18 March 2002.
8. "Daytime Emmy Nominees Are..." CBS News. 2 March 2005.
9. "America's Most Wanted". People Magazine. 10 July 2000.
10. "Cameron Mathison eliminated from 'Dancing with the Stars'". NewsChannel10. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
11. "Cameron Mathison eliminated from 'Dancing With the Stars'". The Orange County Register. 13 November 2007.
12. "Yahoo's 'Ultimate Proposal' Starts Strong with 1.75M Views". Tubefilter. 2011-10-10.
13. "W NETWORK'S BIG COMPETITION SERIES GAME OF HOMES ANNOUNCES CAMERON MATHISON AS HOST". Corusent. 22 September 2014.
14. "We're Watching Cameron Mathison In Game Of Homes. You Should Be, Too". WDish. Archived from the original on 11 January 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
15. "Soap star sells off sprawling Harlem brownstone". New York Post. 25 November 2015.
16. "'Murder She Baked' Is a New Culinary Murder-Mystery From the Hallmark Channel". Eater. 19 February 2015.
17. "FIRST LOOK: Alison Sweeney And Cameron Mathison In 'Murder, She Baked: A Chocolate Chip Cookie Mystery'". Soap Opera Network. 7 April 2015.
18. Wagmeister, Elizabeth. "'Entertainment Tonight' Names Cameron Mathison Weekend Co-Anchor & Correspondent". Variety. Retrieved 2016-03-18.
19. "Cameron Mathison to Co-Host Hallmark's Home & Family". Soap Opera Digest. United States. July 26, 2018. Retrieved July 26, 2018.
20. "Mathison Signs On For "Instant Beauty Pageant". Soaps.sheknows.com. 1 February 2007.
21. "'Stars' Contestant Cameron Mathison to Host Daytime Emmys With 'The View's' Sherri Shepherd". Fox News. 27 May 2008.
22. "THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES ANNOUNCES 35th ANNUAL DAYTIME ENTERTAINMENT EMMY® AWARD NOMINATIONS". Emmyonline.com. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
23. "Hollywood prepares for Daytime Emmys". Today. 20 June 2008.
24. "Wife Strife". New York Post. 21 April 2012.
25. "Saturday's Highlights: 'The Wife He Met Online' on Lifetime". LATimes. 18 May 2012.
26. "Lifetime Movie The Surrogate Is Juno Meets Misery Meets The Craziest Thing You've Ever Watched On TV". Alloy. 3 March 2013. Archived from the original on 11 January 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
27. "Psycho with a Baby Bump". TheMovieScene.co.uk. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
28. "Interview with Cameron Mathison: 'The Carpenter's Miracle'". Digital Journal. 26 March 2013.
29. "BWW Interviews: Cameron Mathison Chats ABC Family Original Movie HOLIDAZE". BroadwayWorld. 22 November 2013.
30. "Cameron Mathison to Star in Hallmark Channel Movie ALONG CAME A NANNY". Broadway World. 15 August 2014.
31. "'AMC's' Cameron Mathison Stars In 'Along Came A Nanny;' World Premiere Happens This Sunday!". Soap Opera Network. 9 October 2014.
32. "Sarah Lancaster comes along as a 'Nanny' for Hallmark". BryanTimes. 11 October 2014.
33. "Jack Wagner, Rachel Blanchard and Cameron Mathison to Star in Hallmark's MY GAL SUNDAY Pilot". Broadway World. 22 July 2013.
34. "Murder, She Baked: A Peach Cobbler Mystery Hallmark Movies and Mysteries". Hallmark Movies and Mysteries. Retrieved 2016-03-18.
35. "ALL MY CHILDREN's Cameron Mathison Stars With Mira Sorvino in 'A Christmas to Remember'!". ABC.soapsindepth.com. 25 October 2016.
36. "'At Home in Mitford' Star Andie MacDowell Says Small-Town Life Is About Love and Community". Country Living. 7 August 2017.
37. "ABOUT A SUMMER TO REMEMBER". Hallmark Channel. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
38. "Hallmark's 'Love, Of Course': Cast, Discussion, Time & Photos". Heavy.com. 20 October 2018.
39. "Cameron Mathison's Ultimate Proposal a Huge Hit For Yahoo". Daytime Confidential. 11 October 2011.
40. "Sherri Shepherd, Cameron Mathison, Jake Whetter and Shira Lazar to Host Oscars' 'Backstage Pass' (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. 15 February 2012.

External links

• Cameron Mathison at IMDb