Trivia

→ Wanted to be a professional pool player before deciding to act instead. He played pool 12 hours a day, for 5 years.
→ Avid sports fan.
→ Plays hockey as often as he can. This attribute has also been given to his "Alias" (2001) character Michael Vaughn, who plays pickup hockey occasionally with his co-worker characters.
→ When the studio resisted casting an "unknown", Drew Barrymore pushed to get him cast in Never Been Kissed (1999).
→ Speaks French and English fluently.
→ Turned down a role in Scream 3 (2000) because he wanted to take his career in a different direction.
→ Nephew of Sylvie Vartan.
→ Cousin of French singer David Hallyday.
→ Was engaged to Shannon Gleason (1988-98).
→ Also paints and plays guitar.
→ Although born in France, he comes from a complex ethnic background - his Bulgarian-born father Eddie Vartan is half Armenian and half Hungarian, while his Polish Jewish mother Doris Vartan was born in Poland but later in life became an American citizen.
→ His favourite NHL Hockey team is the Los Angeles Kings. His favourite NFL team is the Dallas Cowboys. His favourite MLB team is the New York Mets.
→ Appeared in a television ad for the 2004 NHL Stanley Cup playoffs. He stated that he hadn't been nervous while acting in 3 years, yet he was very nervous about appearing with the Stanley Cup.
→ Dated "Alias" (2001) co-star Jennifer Garner. (2003-2004)
→ Former nephew by marriage of Johnny Hallyday.
→ Is a huge fan of Star Wars (1977). He said in an interview that as a child he once watched it every day for a summer and ended up memorizing the lines from the movie.
→ Stepson of writer Ian La Frenais.

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