{{Short description|British actor}} {{Use British English|date=September 2023}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Kristian Ayre | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living people supply only the year with {{Birth year and age|YYYY}} unless the exact date is already widely published, as per WP:DOB. For people who have died, use {{Birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}}. --> | birth_place = England | alma_mater = Simon Fraser University | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1992–present }} '''Kristian Ayre''' is a British actor, best known for his portrayal of the character Radu from the Nickelodeon children's science fiction show ''Space Cases''.<ref name=CBG1663>{{cite news|author=David, Peter|title=Wiki wha?|newspaper=Comics Buyer's Guide|issue=1663|date=March 2010|page=82|publisher=Krause Publications}}</ref>
==Early life== Kristian Ayre was born in England, and moved to Canada at a young age. He began acting in the early 1990s, and appeared in the 1994 movie ''Andre'' with Keith Carradine. After a couple of appearances in TV Movies, including ''Bye Bye Birdie'' (1995),<ref name="Marill"/> he was cast (thanks in part to co-creator Peter David<ref name=CBG1663/>) in the Nickelodeon TV series ''Space Cases'' as Radu 386.
He attended Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, graduating in 2004 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre.<ref name="KA">{{cite web|url=http://www.kristianayre.com/|title=Kristian Ayre webpage|publisher=Kristianayre.com|date=|accessdate=January 30, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713171245/http://www.kristianayre.com/|archive-date=July 13, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="KA resume">[http://web.mac.com/kristianayre/iWeb/Kristian%20Ayre/Resume.html Kristian Ayre's resume] at KristianAyre.ca {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071217030403/http://web.mac.com/kristianayre/iWeb/Kristian%20Ayre/Resume.html |date=December 17, 2007 }}</ref> He is trained in acrobatics and gymnastics.<ref name="KA resume"/>
==Career== Ayre appeared in every episode of the David/Bill Mumy-created two-season ''Space Cases'' (1996–97), alongside co-stars Walter Emanuel Jones, Rahi Azizi, Paige Christina, Anik Matern, Cary Lawrence and Paul Boretski, which also featured early appearances from future-''Firefly'' and ''Stargate: Atlantis'' actress Jewel Staite. Staite, as quoted by Peter David, described Ayre as: {{cquote|one of the most memorable actors I've ever worked with, [whose] attention to detail in the process of fleshing out a character is inspiring. He is one of those actors who sincerely loves what he does, and it shows.<ref name=CBG1663/>}}
Ayre starred in the 1997 CBS TV series ''The New Ghostwriter Mysteries'', and in a regular role on the 1999–2000 TV series ''Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy'' alongside future-''Scrubs'' star Sarah Chalke.<ref name="KA resume"/><ref name="Can TV"/> In the 1999 movie ''Running Home'', Ayre co-starred with ''Babylon 5'' actress Claudia Christian, who is quoted as describing him as "a very good actor and very easy to work with."<ref name=CBG1663/> Ayre also has appeared in odd episodes of such notable science fiction shows as ''The Outer Limits'', ''Stargate SG-1'' and ''The Dead Zone'', among other TV appearances.<ref name="KA resume"/> Appearing as 'Loran' in "The Light" (''Stargate SG-1'' Season 4, episode 18), Ayre was required to cry, but eschewed the usual tricks of the trade, since he can "cry on cue."<ref>Storm, Jo, ''Approaching the Possible - The World of Stargate SG-1'' (ECW Press, 2005) {{ISBN|1-55022-705-X}}, p. 295</ref>
Ayre has also lent his voice to a number of dubbed versions of Japanese anime series, including ''Elemental Gelade'', as the main character of Coud Van Giruet and Shinichiro Isumi in ''Hikaru no Go'', as well as Yuji Sakai in the first season of ''Shakugan no Shana''.<ref name="KA resume"/> His vocal talents have also been featured in the 1993 video release of ''Kishin Corps: Alien Defender Geo-Armor'' (orig. title: ''Kishin Heidan'') and in the English-language version of the 2004 fourth InuYasha movie ''InuYasha the Movie: Fire on the Mystic Island'' (orig. title: ''Inuyasha - Guren no houraijima'').<ref name="KA resume"/>
In addition to credits on both the big and small screen, Ayre has also appeared in stage productions, including MovEnt's "Dances for a Small Stage" XII in January 2006,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.movent.ca/dfasshalloffame/dfasshalloffame.htm |title="Dances for a Small Stage" ''Hall of Fame Gallery'' photographs by Chris Randle |publisher=Movent.ca |accessdate=January 30, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100428011122/http://www.movent.ca/dfasshalloffame/dfasshalloffame.htm |archivedate=April 28, 2010 }}</ref> and with the Genus Theatre in Vancouver. Also in 2006, he performed in "''War Lover'' for the Vancouver International Folk Festival," which he also produced through his "work with the Leaky Heaven Circus."<ref>[http://web.mac.com/kristianayre/iWeb/Kristian%20Ayre/Blog/C5E3CCB1-6D2B-4A0B-99FE-C505F0C6DFDD.html "Photos for Friday"]{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. July 25, 2006 Blog entry at KristianAyre.ca</ref>
A Lieutenant Kristian Ayre appeared as a bridge officer on the Enterprise-E in Peter David's 1997 ''Star Trek: New Frontier'' debut novel, ''House of Cards''.<ref>David, Peter. ''Star Trek: New Frontier: House of Cards''. Pocket Books. 1997. {{ISBN|0-7434-5577-0}}. page 101</ref>
In 1998, Ayre appeared as Tommy McPherson in the mock-documentary ''Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County'', which depicted a rural family as they were besieged by bizarre unexplained occurrences, before being abducted by extraterrestrials.<ref name="roscoe">Roscoe, Jane and Hight, Craig, "Degree 2: critique and hoax" in ''Faking it - Mock-documentary and the subversion of factuality'' (Manchester University Press, 2001) {{ISBN|0-7190-5640-3}}, pp. 151–155</ref> The program caused a level of confusion and controversy upon its initial broadcast that echoed earlier reality-muddying incidents such as Orson Welles' ''War of the Worlds'' radio broadcast. Debate over the hoax nature of the program occurred on Internet chat rooms and bulletin boards, where the program's status as fiction was established by virtue of the fact that Tommy McPherson was played by Ayre, an actor.<ref name="roscoe"/>
==Personal life== Kristian Ayre is married.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CT4vsm3As0-/|title=Untitled|author=Ayre, Kristian|publisher=Instagram|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=September 16, 2001|access-date=March 20, 2023|archive-date=March 19, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230319163206/https://www.instagram.com/p/CT4vsm3As0-/}}</ref>
== Partial filmography == {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Movies/Television Shows ! Role/s ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- | 1994 | ''Andre'' | Gerald<ref>Willis, John and Monush, Barry (ed.s), ''SCREEN WORLD'' - Volume 46 [AKA '1995 Film Annual'] (Hal Leonard Corporation, 2000) {{ISBN|1-55783-233-1}}, p. 501</ref> | |- | 1994 | ''Kishin Corps: Alien Defender Geo-Armor'' | Taishi Takamura | Anime, English dub |- | 1995 | ''Eye Level'' | Zack | Telefilm |- | 1995 | ''Bye Bye Birdie'' | Harvey Johnson<ref name="Marill">Marill, Alvin H., ''More Theatre: Stage to Screen to Television, 1993–2001'' (Scarecrow Press, 2003), {{ISBN|0810845369}}, p. 86</ref> | Telefilm |- | 1996–1997 | ''Space Cases'' | Radu<ref>Gerhards, Winfried, ''Handbuch der Phantastischen Fernsehserien'' (BoD – Books on Demand, 2001), {{ISBN|3-8311-2019-6}}, p. 328</ref> | TV series |- | 1997 | data-sort-value="New Ghostwriter Mysteries, The" | ''The New Ghostwriter Mysteries''<ref>Tate, Marsha Ann, ''Canadian Television Programming made for the United States market: a History with Production and Broadcast Data'' (McFarland, 2007), {{ISBN|0-7864-2745-0}}, p. 256</ref> | Henry 'Strick' Strickland<ref>Terrace, Vincent, ''Encyclopedia of Television Subjects, Themes and Settings'' (McFarland & Co., 2007), {{ISBN|0-7864-2498-2}}, p. 69</ref> | TV series |- | 1998 | ''Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County'' | Tommy McPherson | Mockumentary |- | 1999 | ''Running Home'' | Matt 'Spider' Strilecki | |- | 1999–2000 | ''Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy'' | Tommy Aitkens<ref name="Can TV">Kenter, Peter and Levin, Martin, ''TV North: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Canadian Television'' (Whitecap, 2001), {{ISBN|1-55285-146-X}}, p. 123</ref> | TV series |- | 2000 | ''Bear With Me''<ref>Described as "a sequel of sorts to ''Ms. Bear''" by Pratley, Gerald, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema: Gerald Pratley's Feature Film Guide, 1900 to the Present'' (Lynx Images, 2003), {{ISBN|1-894073-21-5}}, p. 22</ref> | Daniel | |- | 2001 | ''Voyage of the Unicorn'' | Sebastian |Hallmark Entertainment Productions<ref>[http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm-138763/casting/ "Le Voyage de la Licorne"]. Allocine. Retrieved May 8, 2014.</ref> |- | 2001 | ''Stargate SG-1'' | Loran | TV series, ''Season 04 Ep. 18 "The Light'' |- | 2002 | ''Bang Bang You're Dead''<ref>Roberts, Jerry, "William Mastrosimone" in ''The Great American Playwrights on the Screen'' (Hal Leonard Corporation, 2003), {{ISBN|1-55783-512-8}}, p. 366</ref> | Kurt | Telefilm |- | 2003 | ''Elf'' | Foom Foom<ref>Willis, John and Monush, Barry (ed.s), ''SCREEN WORLD'' - Volume 55 [AKA '2004 Film Annual'] (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books/Hal Leonard Corporation, 2005) {{ISBN|1-55783-638-8}}, p. 148</ref> | |- |2004–2005 |''Shakugan no Shana'' |Yūji Sakai |Anime, English dub, season 1 |- | 2004 | ''Inuyasha the Movie: Fire on the Mystic Island'' | Ryūra | Anime, English dub |- | 2005 | ''Elemental Gelade'' | Coud 'Cou' Van Giruet | Anime, English dub |- | 2008 | ''Of Golf and God'' | Daniel | |}
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