- Adrian Bond, known for both his emotional range as well as his sinister and horrific characters, was born in East Tennessee; the older of two children of an accountant and small business owner. Performing from a young age, he began his life on stage at the age of 6. He was always drawn to creative endeavors rather than athletic outlets including painting, sketching and eventually creating his own comic book series. After teaching himself guitar, piano and drums in his teen years, he discovered his love for performing and gained the confidence and experience which led him to pursue larger stages and audiences. He made it onto the radio regionally and recorded a full-length solo album while continuing his theatrical career through his formative years in the form of creating, writing, directing and acting in his own horror shorts before moving to Chicago where he began performing with schools such as Tribeca/Flashpoint, Columbia and Chicago Filmmakers. From there he worked his way up the ladder via independent projects, student films, and eventually found his way onto some larger productions which caught the eye of his first agent. He has since transitioned to a life on screen where he has consistently landed roles on shows and films specializing in playing villains and bad boy love interests. An avid travel enthusiast, he is tattooed for the cities he says he has loved and the cities which have loved him back. He resides in Los Angeles and is a proud and active member of SAG-AFTRA.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Mini Biography
- Before being cast as John Wilkes Booth in Sleepy Hollow he auditioned for the role of Souvenir Seller, which went to Daryn Kahn. 6 days later he was asked to read for Booth. He received his offer 2 days later.
- One of Adrian's biggest influences as a villain, Peter Stormare, played the devil in the film Constantine. Adrian would later go on to play the devil in a movie with Stormare in which Stormare's character's name was Constantine.
- He was the shortest kid in his class through elementary school.
- A lot of productions bring me on to play the baddie, but I'm constantly aware that my job is to do justice to the story as a whole. If the story needs something sinister, I'm here to bring that. I can detach from the protagonist in scenes, but ultimately I have to remember I am there to tell their story. I am the bad thing that happened to them. And that's how I view my work. I can go to the dark places because I'm serving the story.
- It's not enough to be scary, or to be explosive, or to be dark. It's not enough to lack any empathy for the people you're hurting. For me, the most sinister part of a villain isn't that he's evil, it's that he enjoys it. Show me someone doing the unthinkable *and* finding satisfaction or joy or even ecstasy in it, now that's a villain I can be afraid of. And that's what I try to bring to my characters. Watch my shows, you'll see me screaming, and you'll see me exploding. But you'll also see me smiling.
- I like the anticipation. Think of a lion. To me if I'm seeing a lion with his claws out and teeth in the air coming down on me I already know I'm dead. It's when the lion is down low to the ground behind the grass, or when I don't even know that there's really a lion hidden in there and things are quiet...that's what gets my heart racing.
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