Josiah Jack Kalian
- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Josiah Jack "The Poet" Kalian was born in Pasadena, California and raised in Texas and Kentuckiana.
The 2nd born of 11 home-schooled children, he became a search & rescue diver before serving in the US Army as an air assault combat medic. During his 5 years he earned staff sergeant and a bronze star medal, with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. He then moved to Hollywood using his GI bill for film school obtaining his SAG card working background on The Big Bang Theory.
When most kids would be at school, 9 yr old Kalian was building houses full time to help his family keep food on the table. At 17 he snuck into a movie theater and felt a destiny.
His first performance was in a production of White Christmas at the Amelia Earhart Playhouse in Wiesbaden, Germany.
The 2nd born of 11 home-schooled children, he became a search & rescue diver before serving in the US Army as an air assault combat medic. During his 5 years he earned staff sergeant and a bronze star medal, with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. He then moved to Hollywood using his GI bill for film school obtaining his SAG card working background on The Big Bang Theory.
When most kids would be at school, 9 yr old Kalian was building houses full time to help his family keep food on the table. At 17 he snuck into a movie theater and felt a destiny.
His first performance was in a production of White Christmas at the Amelia Earhart Playhouse in Wiesbaden, Germany.