Acting at a signing in Santa Barbara (2004) Kane landed his first acting role in 1997 as one of the leads in
MGM's television series
Fame L.A. playing a country singer who moved to Los Angeles from Kansas. His television roles have included a recurring role in
Joss Whedon’s
Angel as the lawyer
Lindsey MacDonald, the
Jerry Bruckheimer-produced series
Close to Home on
CBS, the
TNT television film
Crossfire Trail in which he appeared alongside
Tom Selleck, and the role of Abe Wheeler in the
Steven Spielberg-produced 2005 miniseries
Into the West. He starred as Billy Ryan in the
MTV movie
Love Song in 2000, alongside
R&B artist
Monica. Kane’s appearances on the big screen include the
20th Century Fox film
Just Married and
New Line Cinema's
Secondhand Lions (as the younger version of
Robert Duvall's Hub McCann, he has a scar on his upper lip from an injury he received while filming the movie). He also appeared in
Taxi,
Life or Something Like It, the Peter Berg-directed
Friday Night Lights, and the Warner Bros. baseball film
Summer Catch. In 2007, Kane was featured in the
Carrie Underwood music video "So Small", playing the role of one of the three converging stories. In 2009, he appeared in the psychological thriller,
Hide, in which he played the lead role of Billy, and
The Donner Party which is based on the true story of the
Donner Party. In 2010, he starred in the romantic drama,
Not Since You. From 2008 to 2012, Kane appeared on the TNT television series
Leverage as
Eliot Spencer, a retrieval specialist and black ops soldier who teams up with four other specialists to undo the injustices perpetrated upon the helpless. Kane performed all his own fight scenes and also choreographed fights for the series. Kane plays the same character in
Leverage:Redemption, which premiered in July 2021, streaming on
IMDb TV. The show takes up the team's adventures 8 years after the last episode. In 2013, Kane appeared as JT Maxwell, brother to
Rebecca Romijn's female lead Michelle Maxwell on TNT's
King & Maxwell. He appeared again with Romijn co-starring in the 2014 to 2018 TNT television series
The Librarians, based on
The Librarian film series. In 2020, Kane starred as Alex Walker on the drama series,
Almost Paradise. The second season was released in July 2023. In an interview with
Tell-Tale TV, Kane described that character as being several of his previous roles on other series rolled into one.
Music The band consists of Kane (
lead vocals,
guitar), Carlson (
rhythm guitar,
backing vocals), Jason Southard (
lead guitar), Will Amend (
bass guitar), and Ryan Baker (
drums) and is signed to independent record label
Bigger Picture Music Group. Their label debut,
The House Rules, was released on December 7, 2010. It debuted at no. 1 on the
Billboard Heatseekers album chart and no. 25 on the Country Albums chart. The album was produced by
Bob Ezrin and
Jimmie Lee Sloas. The first single from the album, also titled "The House Rules", debuted at no. 54 on the
Billboard Country Songs chart and was the seventh-most added song on
Mediabase Country stations on its official impact date. The second single, "Let Me Go", was released on July 11, 2011. The video for the single, directed by
Roman White, premiered on
CMT August 8, 2011 and reached no. 1 on their Today's Top Videos chart .
Trace Adkins released a song written by Kane called "Happy Man" on his 2010 album, ''
Cowboy's Back in Town''. Kane's co-writing efforts include songs written with Blair Daly,
Brett James,
David Lee Murphy,
Casey Beathard, and
Jerrod Niemann. "Thinking of You", a song he co-wrote with Blair Daly, was featured in
Leverage Season 3 episode, "The Studio Job." ==Filmography==