TAYLOR KITSCH
AGE 26

BROKE OUT IN... NBC's Friday Night Lights, as the team's brooding fullback.

WHY HIM Adding unexpected depth to his FNL role, Kitsch proves that he can take a role and run with it.

WHAT'S NEXT He incarnates the card-slinging Gambit in the hotly anticipated X-Men Origins: Wolverine (May 2009).