Biography

Hank Cheyne aka Hank Cheyne Garcia (born August 13 in Santa Maria, Ca.) is an American actor best known for playing Ricardo Torres in the, Aaron Spelling daytime drama Sunset Beach (1997) (1997-2000). He also played the role of Scott LaSalle/Love on the NBC Soap operaAnother World (1964)(1986-1988) and Anton Vargas on (2007 TV series)Saints & Sinners (2016).

Born Henry Edward Garcia, in Santa Maria, CA. he is the youngest of three children and is of German /Dutch descent on his mother's side, and Native American/Spanish and Mexican descent on his father's side. He was raised Roman Catholic attending parochial middle school and high school before graduating from the Jesuit Santa Clara University in 1980 with a BSC in Business, where he also played varsity baseball. After graduating from the University of Santa Clara, he attended UCLA Law School receiving his Juris Doctor degree. His paternal grandfather was a cattle rancher on the central coast of California in the early 1900s whose roots were traced to full-blooded Yaqui Indian while his paternal grandmother's roots went back to Spain and Mexico; his father ( one of 14 brothers and sisters ) was a professional Bull Rider. His mother's family was of German /Dutch origin from Wyoming and Pennsylvania. He took Cheyne as his acting name from the town of Cheyenne, Wyoming, where his parents met, after discovering that there was already someone with his birth name in the Screen Actors Guild.

Career

During Law School, he was approached by artist, filmmaker, and photographer Steven Arnold to be photographed by him. Arnold was a venerated tableau photographer and protégé of Salvador Dalí working out of his Los Angeles photography studio and West Coast salon, Zanzibar, and at the time was designing and shooting tableau-vivants for a book. For Hank, it was a wildly propitious introduction to the early 1980s avant-garde creative scene in Los Angeles countering the more regimented curriculum of Law School.

Through a friend, he was introduced to an acting coach, Vincent Chase, who suggested that he go to an open casting for a feature editorial for GQ magazine that was being photographed by renowned fashion photographer Bruce Weber. Weber cast him and then continued to use him several more times in high-profile publications British Vogue, Italian Vogue in an editorial on Las Vegas featuring him with Christie Brinkley, and the Gianni Versace fashion campaign.

he went on to shoot with acclaimed photographers Herb Ritts, Mathew Rolston, and Fabrizio Gianni among others.

For the next two years, he juggled Law School with modeling/commercial work before graduating and passing the California Bar Exam. He received a full-time offer from the Beverly Hills law firm Ball, Hunt, Hart, Brown, and Baerwitz, of which the former Governor of California Edmund Brown was a name partner. Before committing and needing a break from seven straight years of college and grad school, he asked for and received a deferment with an open offer to return to practice law. Following commercial and print work he moved to Europe, traveling extensively, eventually living in Italy and then later Tokyo, Japan, before returning to the U.S. where he committed to pursuing a career as an actor

In 1986 he was cast to play Scott Love/Lasalle on the NBC daytime drama Another World (1964) in New York, opposite John Considine and Denise Alexander. After his two-year contract ended he chose not to renew and instead returned to California. He continued working doing lower-budget films, appearing in television guest spots and several national commercials including the Marlboro Campaign with Tony Scott directing.

1996 he co-founded a theater company on Hollywood Theater Row and starred in the world premiere of Steve Monroe's 'A Kind Man and A Good Lover' in the role of Frank Mackie, for which he received a Los Angeles Ovation Award Nomination.

In 1996 he was cast by Aaron Spelling as Detective Ricardo Torres in Sunset Beach (1997) daytime drama for NBC. The series ran for three years enjoying cult-like status in the UK and airing in over 40 countries. currently in Russia, Poland, and Bulgaria.

After Sunset Beach (1997), in the early 2000's he switched gears and renewed a passion and proclivity for painting which he had been developing since returning to California. Submersing himself in the art world with a studio space in mid-Los Angeles, and Gallery representation on Melrose Avenue he participated in solo and group shows.

in 2006 Cheyne was cast as series regular, drug lord Anton Vargas in the Twentieth Century Fox My Network TV series Saints & Sinners (2016). The series was canceled in 2007 after 62 episodes.

in 2009/2010 he had a recurring role as Austin Buttercup in the HBO series Big Love (2006)

He followed this with guest starring roles in the FX series Sons of Anarchy (2008) and CBS Criminal Minds (2005)

in 2014 he was cast in a recurring role as character Sam Poteet in the Netflix crime drama Longmire (2012). And the Apple TV series The Morning Show (2019)

Personal Life

Cheyne is married to actress Missy Hughes. They met in New York while both were cast members on NBC's Another World (1964). Hughes is a reality television executive for Renegade 83

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Alana Garcia