Ian Harding Biography (Age, Height, Weight, Girlfriend, Family, Career & Hallmark Movies)

Ian Harding is an American actor and producer best known for playing Ezra Fitz in the TV series Pretty Little Liars. He has won eight awards for this role. Ian has also appeared in many films, TV movies, and TV shows. He loves acting and is very talented.

He started his Hallmark journey in 2022 with the film Ghosts of Christmas Always, directed by Rich Newey. In this movie, he played the lead character of Peter Baron alongside actress Kim Matula.

Personal Details

Physical Appearance

Personal Life (Family, Friends, Girlfriends, Children)

Early life, Family, and Relationship

Ian Harding was born on September 16, 1986, to an American family in Heidelberg, Germany. His father, Stephen Harding, is a military affairs writer and novelist who has had two New York Times bestsellers, ‘The Last Battle’ and ‘Last to Die.’ Mary Harding, his mother, worked as a cardiology nurse at Walter Reed. Sarah is his older sister.

Ian’s family relocated to Virginia when he was a child. To help his mother, who has had lupus for almost 20 years, he collaborated with the Lupus Foundation of America to raise cash and awareness for lupus research and education.

Education

He began attending Georgetown Preparatory School in North Bethesda, Maryland. He became interested in acting and joined his school’s drama club, and he was chosen by his class to deliver the graduating speech.

Ian Harding enjoyed performing and performed on stage throughout high school. He auditioned for numerous acting conservatories as a student in high school. However, he was hesitant to pursue it as a job and commit to it for the rest of his life. Later, he enrolled in Carnegie Mellon University’s Acting/Music Theatre Department.

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Girlfriend, Wife and Marriage

In 2010, he began dating Sophie Hart. The pair married in October 2019. The pair will have their first child together in September 2022.

Career, Struggle, Turning Point, and Success

Ian Harding’s first major break came in 2009 when he was cast in the romantic comedy-drama Adventureland, written and directed by Greg Mottola. In the same year, he portrayed Ryan in the film Deadtime Stories 2.

In 2010, Ian began playing Ezra Fitz, an English teacher turned popular novelist, on ABC Family Television’s Pretty Little Liars, which lasted seven seasons. So far, he has received eight Teen Choice Awards for his portrayal of Ezra Fitz.

In 2010, he also appeared in the romantic comedy-drama film Love & Other Drugs, written and directed by Edward Zwick.

In the same year, he appeared in NCIS: Los Angeles, an action television series that blended aspects of military drama and police procedural. At the same time, he appeared in a six-episode online series called Hollywood is Like High School with Money, in which he portrayed Jamie Hunter.

In 2012, he appeared in the films Punk’d and I’m Not a DJ. I’m Not a DJ was a television movie, but Punk’d was a hidden camera-practical joke reality television series. In 2015 and 2016, he appeared in two TV series, Dynamite: A Cautionary Tale and SuperNovas.

He appeared in the 2017 films People You May Know and Office Uprising, a zombie comedy thriller directed by Lin Oeding and written by Peter Gamble Robinson and Ian Shorr. Following the conclusion of his seven-season run as Ezra Fitz, Ian was cast as a series regular in the Fox comedy pilot ‘Thin Ice’ in February 2017.

In May 2017, Ian’s first book, Odd Birds, a collection of personal writings on life, acting, and birdwatching was launched. He spends a lot of his free time observing birds.

He opted to create this book because he felt creatively dissatisfied and wanted to try his hand at something new. So he chose to write about his boyhood interest in birdwatching. His admirers adored the novel.

Ian Harding Hallmark Movies

• Ian Harding works as Rory in the Hallmark Movie The Magic of Lemon Drops: The story tells that when Lolly’s Aunt Gert gives her three special lemon drops, Lolly gets to see what her life could have been like if she had made different decisions and followed dreams she didn’t pursue.

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Unknown Facts:

• Born in Germany, his family relocated to Virginia when he was a baby.
• I used to play soccer and basketball as a child.
• In high school, I joined the theatre club since it was the only co-ed activity offered at the all-boys school.
• He gave the speech during his high school graduation.
• When it comes to music, he like Taylor Swift.
• He adopted two Labradoodles from a shelter, Mochi and Bailey. In an interview, he said that if he hadn’t become an actor, he would have studied psychology.
• He has been an avid bird watcher since he was a child.

Ian Harding Biography (Age, Height, Weight, Girlfriend, Family, Career & More)