| Birth Day | December 8, 1978 |
| Birth Place | Covington, LA |
| Ian Somerhalder age | 45 YEARS OLD |
| Birth Sign | Sagittarius |
He became known to television drama audiences for playing the heartthrob Damon Salvatore in the The Vampire Diaries and Boone Carlyle in Lost.
He began a modeling career at age ten, spending most of his summers in New York.
He won a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2006 for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for Lost, and launched the Ian Somerhalder Foundation on his 32nd birthday.
He married Actress Nikki Reed in April 2015. He and Nikki welcomed a daughter named Bodhi in 2017. He previously dated his Vampire Diaries co-star Nina Dobrev. His mother, Edna, worked as a massage therapist, and his father, Robert, worked as a building contractor.
He starred in the TV drama series Vampire Diaries with Nina Dobrev.
