Dylan Neal Biography, Age, Net Worth, Family, Wife, Movies, Interview

Dylan Neal Biography

Dylan Neal (Dylan Jeremy Neal) is an American actor, writter and producer. He holds dual citizenship in the United States and Canada. He is famously known for his role in the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, Doug Witter on Dawson’s Creek. Also known as Detective Mike Celluci in the supernatural series Blood Ties.

He played Aaron Jacobs on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. In 2007, He gained popularity among the sci-fi/fantasy genre fan base. This was after taking on the role of Detective Mike Celluci in Lifetime’s Canadian vampire fantasy show Blood Ties. He starred alongside Christina Cox and Kyle Schmid.

In the television series Cedar Cove, he played the male lead alongsuide Andie MacDowell. Neal plays Jack Griffith, a Philadelphia reporter. He played Bob Adams, stepfather to the main character Anastasia Steele, in the highly anticipated film adaptation Fifty Shades of Grey (2015).

Dylan Neal Education

Two years to completing his studies, Neal transferred to T. A. Blakelock High School in Oakville. It is while in T. A. Blakelock High School that his interest in acting begun. He started taking active roles in the schools drama club. In light of his newfound passion and upon the advice of his Drama teacher, Neal decided he wanted to make a career of acting.

Before he could however make it to the industry he did some odd jobs. He worked as a caterer and delivered lunch baskets to private businesses in industrial areas around Toronto. Additionally, he delivered pizzas. All his life, he was passionate about furniture making. A passion that has now been outdone by acting.

Dylan Neal As A Writer And Producer

In 2014, he sold a TV movie franchise to the newly rebranded Hallmark Movies and Mystery Channel. That same year, he began writing, executive producing. He also starred as Henry Ross in Hallmark’s original mystery series Gourmet Detective. From 2018 to date Dylan continues to write, produce and star in a variety of movies for Hallmark.

Neal and his wife, Becky Southwell, write and produce their own projects through Southwell Neal Entertainment. They are the creative force behind the Gourmet Detective original films for Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.

Dylan Neal Age

Dylan was born in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. He was born on 8th October 1969. His current age is 49 years old as of 2018.

Dylan Neal Net Worth

Dylan has achieved so much from his career. It is obviously from the time he begun his acting career, he has made a huge fortune. He has a net worth of approximately more than $2 million as of 2019. That is good money. He has made the amount from his sheer hard work as an actor. He could also be engaged in some other stuff outside acting.

Dylan Neal Family

Dylan Neal was born in Richmond Hill, Ontario, in 1969. Four months after his birth, his family moved to Oakville, Ontario. He attended Appleby College in Oakville. Initially, he wanted to become a professional squash player. Details about his family and especially parents are not well known. We also have no details about his siblings.

Dylan Neal Wife

Neal is a married man. He got married to his long time girlfriend Becky Southwell on 21st September 1996. Becky is a TV writer. Noel and Becky have co-written some of the Gourmet Detective films with him. They have two children together.

Dylan Neal Movies And TV Shows

Dylan Neal Movies

• 1992 I’ll Never Get to Heaven
• 1997 Taylor’s Return
• 2001 XCU: Extreme Close Up
• 2002 40 Days and 40 Nights
  -Landspeed
• 2005 Locusts
  -Mute
  -Extreme Dating
• 2010 Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
  -The Traveler
  -My Family’s Secret
• 2015 Fifty Shades of Grey
• 2017 Fifty Shades Darker
• 2018 Fifty Shades Freed
  -BOULEVARD

Dylan Neal Tv Shows

• 1988 Learning the Ropes
• 1989 War of the Worlds
• 1990 E.N.G.
• 1991 Top Cops
• 1992 Catwalk
• 1993 Sweating Bullets
• 1996 Golden Will: The Silken Laumann Story
• 2007–2008 Blood Ties
• 2008 Psych
• 2009 The L Word
• 2009 & 2017 Murdoch Mysteries
• 2012 90210
• 2013–2015 Cedar Cove
• 2013 Bones
• 2013–2014 Arrow
• 2014 A Wife’s Nightmare
• 2015-2017 The Gourmet Detective film series
• 2016 Looks Like Christmas
• 2018 Truly, Madly, Sweetly

Dylan Neal Interview

Q: Well, now you get to hear what I sound like.

Dylan Neal: Yes, we’ve been aware of each other for a couple years now, and you’ve been such a loyal follower of everything Hallmark does.

Q: I try to follow everything Hallmark does. And then people like you, I try to follow everything you do. But you don’t tweet as much as some people do.

Dylan Neal: No I don’t. To be honest, I really don’t like social media that much. I’m not really interested in trying to increase my followers. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with doing that and playing that game–especially with someone like you who I imagine is trying to increase your writing career, so having online followers in that case makes perfect sense and makes you more employable. My belief–and I’m very much against the grain here–you’ll probably find that in almost every category as we go on with this–I think social media works when you’re let’s say a musician or if you’re a traditional bricks and mortar retail operation, then of course, you’ll want to be across all social media ’cause you’re selling a very specific item or brand.

Q: Yeah, it sure does. I’m usually interviewing actors who are younger than me, and I’m not much younger than you are. I’ve seen some of what you’re talking about. And I’ve also dealt with cyberbullying.

Dylan Neal: Oh yeah, that’s ugly. Cyberbullying is horrendous and seeing what’s been going on with Twitter and Lesley Jones with racism – it’s just a really horrendous side of our culture. Those are serious topics, much more important than what I’m referring to. An actor’s ego run amuck and posting under the guise of “Isn’t this cute?” or “Isn’t this funny?” but what they’re really after are fans saying how great they are or how beautiful they are – I mean this endless posting of selfies as bait for compliments is really sad. All of this reminds me of that movie Soap Dish with Sally Field – remember that?

Q: I’ve had these conversations with different fans because people come to me all the time and ask, “Why didn’t so-and-so respond?” And I honestly make a science of studying the way various actors respond, and I’m just sensitive to that. I already knew your outlook on social media.

Dylan Neal: Yes, I’ve seen you watching and how you watch. Isn’t it interesting how you can get a sense of someone’s personality from social media? If you’re on there, you do get a sense. And what I’ve always said is, I won’t ever be fake. I don’t want to play a role where I’m lying to people. I don’t like to lie which is why I don’t like to do press ’cause press is all about lying in many ways. I know people who respond on social media in a way that is completely false because they are either (A) trying to be nice—and that’s lovely and there’s obviously nothing wrong with trying to be nice–or (B) they’re cultivating followers. And privately they’ll say the complete opposite of what they just said on social media and/or look down on fans or belittle them.

Q: So let’s talk a little about Cedar Cove. How did you originally view the characters Olivia and Jack?

Dylan Neal: In the pilot, Jack and Olivia were two intelligent people. He’s an award-winning journalist. I think he’s a Rhodes Scholar. Olivia is a Yale grad, and she is a smart judge. These are two intelligent people. And the spark between them was always that they saw each other and went, “Hey, what are you doing here in this funny little town?” It was two intellectuals sparring with each other, who made each other laugh because they had different personalities, but they were two smart grown-ups who found it funny that they found each other in this kind of crazy little town.

Q: You know, you guys always did do your best, like you said. Even in the third season, in spite of any difficulties, I knew that you guys always did give your best.

Dylan Neal: We all always cared about it. No one was skating through that show. Andie worked incredibly hard. And coming to television was a big shift for Andie. You know, it’s a very different animal working in television than it is in film. You have so much more time in studio movies to work the material, to rehearse, to ask questions than you do in television. And she discovered that right away, and believe me, she rose to the challenge. She worked very, very hard. Andie always had more lines than anyone else, usually had longer days than everyone else and she was always so professional and prepared. Towards the end, my main struggle was sometimes seeing my character not always behaving in the way I had always viewed him.

Q: Thank you, Dylan. It took a lot of time, but just like the everyone involved with the show, I was doing what I could to hopefully save it and bring it back for another season. Sadly, it didn’t happen. {pause} So, why did you become an actor?

Dylan Neal: I think I’d always been curious about acting. I was a very shy kid, and when I was at a prep school called Appleby College where I went to school from the fourth grade until the eleventh grade, they didn’t have a drama program, but they did a school play once a year, maybe twice a year. But that was way too much of a leap for me to audition for the play–it was way too terrifying for me. So when I went to a regular high school for my last two years–at that time in the 80’s in Ontario, high school went to thirteenth grade.

Q: Since you’re one of the people I pay attention to closely, I love seeing when you’ve given someone advice. Or one of the coolest things you do, I think, is you regularly acknowledge those you work with when they have an upcoming project or wishing them well when they get an award. I think that ‘s great when you do that because I don’t see enough people in the business doing things like that.

Dylan Neal: You know, I purposely do that because the people I’m doing that for I like and I genuinely want them to do well. But I’m also very cognizant of a very common trait within our industry. I think there’s a quote from Oscar Wilde that says, “Every time a friend of mine succeeds, a little piece of me dies.” And that is something that is almost unavoidable in our industry because it is so crushingly competitive. And we’re all just trying to survive financially unless you have a major breakthrough. We’re all trying to keep our foot out of bankruptcy at different times in our life. N

Q: Fans also would like to know if you have kept in contact with any of the cast from Dawson’s Creek.

Dylan Neal: No, I haven’t. I was never terribly close to any of them because of the age difference. I was probably ten years older than all of them. And at that time, they were kids. And I was about twenty-eight, I think. I remember driving Katie Holmes to a dinner like about the fourth episode of the first season.

Q: Now I know you’re also into woodworking. So is woodworking something you’ve done your whole life?

Dylan Neal: All of my adult life, yeah. Since I was about twenty. I’m a curious person by nature, and I’m a hands-on creative person. What makes me happiest in life is just creating. So whether it’s portraiture–you know, I worked briefly doing animal portraits during my lean years. Writing, acting, painting, you know woodwork was just a natural hobby for me to take up. I love furniture. I love design. I love the challenge of good proportion and authenticity to different periods. The first thing I did wasn’t that simple. I made a bed, and I had no idea what I was doing. I had almost no tools.

Q: With your kids, would you ever encourage and/or support their getting involved with acting as a career?

Dylan Neal: I think like with any actor, we’d all be very fearful. I’d be fearful if my kids went into the business because it’s so hard. But of course, if one was really dead set on it, of course I would support them and I’d give them a hundred percent of myself in any way I could to help them. And then they’d be far luckier than myself. I would be able to guide them in a knowledgeable way from the very beginning.

Q: So if you could spend the day with someone famous, who would you pick and why?

Dylan Neal: Oh man. Someone I admire greatly is George Clooney. I think because he comes from television. He comes from some very schlocky television, and he was able to pull himself out of it. And he is a very good actor, but he’s also a writer, he’s a producer, he’s a director. I also admire that he’s a good person.

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