Coming from very humble beginnings in the city of Kelowna in British Columbia is the actor Taylor Kitsch. While he loved ice hockey and played in the junior league for Langley Hornets, he had to quit the sport owing to a knee injury. That subsequently led him to the world of media and move to New York.

Kitsch had to live in the subways for a substantial time before he got on to more significant modeling projects in Los Angeles. His breakthrough was in an NBC TV series called “Friday Night Lights,” while he’s also played Gambit in the MCU film “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.”