Biography
Facts
Name: Dylan NealBorn: October 8, 1969, in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada, but relocated to Oakville six months later.
Height: 6' 2" - 1.88 m
Family: Married since 1996, two children
School: Went to Appleby College, an all-boys private school with no theater program. His mother was a teacher there. The last two years of schooling he went to Blakelock high school in Oakville. At Blakelock, he took drama and fell in love with acting.
Sports: As a teenager, he considered becoming a professional squash player but acting won
Favorite Childhood Hangout: The toy department at K-Mart
Quote: “If anything scares me, I have to do it (1995)”
Quote: One of his high schools believed in corporal punishment. “We called on of the paddles 'The Big Mac.' You couldn't sit down after getting whacked (1995)”
Trivia
Appeared in several productions in high school, and his drama teacher inspired him to try for an acting career.Worked in Toronto for five years while still living in Oakville, doing both U.S. and Canadian projects. Arrived in Hollywood in February 1992 - with no agent, no money and no place to live.
Came close to landing the role of Billy on Melrose Place.
Enjoys watching hockey. Once owned a motorcycle.
One of his hobbies is woodworking, and he's quite an accomplished carpenter.
He once supplied furniture to a store in Beverly Hills.
He likes creating - and at one point considered a career as an illustrator in advertising.
When he got the role on "The Bold and the Beautiful" he could afford to buy furniture - he'd been sleeping on a blow-up air mattress until then.
Had a cat as a kid and two as a grown-up
Was afraid of roller coasters as a kid.
Together with Maitlaned Ward, his "The Bold and the Beautiful" co-star, he was a judge on STAR SEARCH in Orlando, Florida.