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Josh Holloway as James 'Sawyer' Ford
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| Josh
Holloway: |
Josh
Holloway (born July 20, 1969) is an American actor.
Holloway was born in San Jose, California but moved to the Blue Ridge
Mountains of Georgia at the age of 2. He is the second oldest of four
boys. He developed an interest for movies at a very young age. He
studied at the University of Georgia but quit after only one year to
become a successful model, which took him all over Europe and North
America.
Josh's ambition for acting took him to Los Angeles, where he got a
role in the comedy Doctor Benny. He followed that up with lead roles
in the movies Mi Amigo, Moving August, and Cold Heart. After those
roles, he gained notice for his lead role in the Sci-Fi Channel movie
Sabretooth with David Keith and John Rhys-Davies. Holloway was also a
guest star on CSI and NCIS. He struggled for eight years before his
big break on the hit tv show "Lost".
Currently, he has a leading role in the Emmy award-winning ABC show
Lost, where he plays the role of James "Sawyer" Ford, which
has given him a Hollywood heart-throb status.
Josh's hobbies include boating, sailing, snowboarding, martial arts,
motorcross, and playing guitar.
On the morning of October 12, 2005, he and his wife Yessica were
robbed at gunpoint in their home. The couple was asleep when the
gunman awoke them and took cash and credit cards before driving off in
Holloway's Mercedes-Benz, which was found abandoned a short time
later. There was no evidence that the criminals knew whom they were
robbing, or had targeted them because Holloway was a celebrity.
In January of 2006, In Touch Weekly named Holloway the "hottest
hunk" on television. In the same month, Holloway was voted the
17th sexiest guy worldwide by British readers of OK! magazine. |
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| James 'Sawyer' Ford: |
Prior to
Oceanic Flight 815
A native of Tennessee, Sawyer, whose real name is James Ford, is a con
artist who has taken on the alias of the con man known as
"Sawyer", who was responsible for the destruction of his
family.
The original Sawyer had an affair with the young James Ford's mother
in order to con his family out of their life savings, prompting James'
father to murder his mother and then commit suicide out of grief.
Vowing revenge, in an ironic twist Ford finds himself in financial
trouble and is sucked into the world of con artistry himself, adopting
Sawyer's profession and even his specific modus operandi to survive,
using his looks to seduce women and divide families. He also takes the
original Sawyer's name as an alias and, perhaps, as a symbol of his
own self-loathing.
One of Sawyer's cons is a divorced woman named Cassidy, who tells him
that she did not get a significant settlement in the divorce
proceedings. While getting dressed, Sawyer accidentally opens a
briefcase filled with fake cash bundles, which is one of his favorite
cons (meant to give off the impression that he is rich, so he can more
easily con his victim into giving him money meant for an investment).
Cassidy, however, sees through the con immediately, but is also
intrigued, asking Sawyer to teach her how to con someone. The two
scheme a jewelry con by overpricing fake goods, and con two men at a
gas station. Cassidy later asks if he can teach her how to pull off a
"long con", and reveals that she got $600,000 from her
ex-husband. Sawyer is later at a diner having lunch with Gordy, his
partner, who tells him to keep doing his con on Cassidy despite
Sawyer's feelings for her. Sawyer returns to the house and tells
Cassidy to run because Sawyer's partner Gordy is going to kill them,
and points to a car waiting outside. He reveals that the "long
con" is Cassidy herself, and that he knew about her money from
the beginning. He then sends her off with a bag which he appears to
have stuffed with the money. However, this was all part of the con:
the car was empty and the real money was hidden in another bag, ready
for Sawyer to take once Cassidy left.
Before the crash, James is told that the man who ruined his childhood,
the same man from whom he took his alias Sawyer, was in Australia.
James goes there and kills him, only to find out he has been set up
and the man he has killed was not Sawyer. Before making his final
decision to kill the man who he thought was "Sawyer", Sawyer
meets a man in a bar who, after the crash, he realizes was Christian
Shephard, Jack's father. Sawyer does not reveal this encounter to Jack
until Exodus: Part 1.
In Boone's flashback in "Hearts and Minds", an uncooperative
Sawyer is dragged into a police station by two police officers. This
is later revealed to be because of Sawyer's participation in a bar
fight. A policeman informs Sawyer that the man he has head-butted in
the bar was the Australian Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and
Forestry. He is deported from Australia and banned from ever
returning, thus ending up on the fateful flight. The Australian
authorities, who are aware of Sawyer's real identity, deport him under
his real name and it is listed as such on the flight manifest. It has
not been explained why Hurley, who had the passenger manifest list,
continues to refer to him as "Sawyer". Hurley later shares
the manifest with Locke, however, and Locke eventually reveals to
Sawyer in "The Hunting Party" that he was aware of Sawyer's
real name.
On the Island
Sawyer is known for collecting and hoarding items from the plane crash
and for being the resident smart-talking rebel on the island. Along
with Shannon, he is one of the island's most prolific sources of
colorful, often insulting nicknames for other castaways and island
locations. These mannerisms make him easily hated and despised by most
of the islanders, although it eventually transpires that he purposely
incites others into hostility against him; Kate eventually uncovers
his tragic past and forces him to admit his inferiority complex, and
Michael, noting that the otherwise entirely self-centered Sawyer seems
eager to volunteer for dangerous tasks, theorizes he may be suicidal.
Initially Sawyer is Kate's most aggressive suitor, making various
crude advances toward her, at one instance extorting a kiss from her,
but as time passes on, the two seem to develop a genuine friendship,
both sharing a background as criminals and fugitives tormented by
guilt. He kills time on the island by reading books (such as Watership
Down, which is "about bunnies" and A Wrinkle in Time)
salvaged from the plane; this has caused Sawyer to develop hyperopia,
forcing him to wear reading glasses made by Sayid. His voice also
seems to entertain and comfort Claire's baby.
While on the raft, he is heard singing Bob Marley's "Redemption
Song", in a bit of metaphorical happenstance. When Sawyer, Jin,
Michael, and Walt encounter another boat at sea whose passengers
demand that Walt come with them, Sawyer pulls a gun, given to him by
Jack before they left, to protect Walt. He gets shot by "The
Others" and goes overboard. After the boat leaves, he climbs onto
the wreckage of the raft with Michael and pulls the bullet out with
his fingers from his shoulder. Due to infection and a loss of blood,
Sawyer becomes ill and passes out in Abandoned. Michael, Jin, and Mr.
Eko make a stretcher for him and proceed to carry him back to their
camp. Back at camp, he is taken to the hatch, where Jack declares him
septic. In "What Kate Did", he is in a fevered state, and
says to Jack "I love her". Several minutes later, he attacks
Kate and asks her why she "killed" him. She takes this to be
a sign that her deceased stepfather Wayne, whom she killed, is seeking
her from beyond the grave, and flees the hatch. She later returns and
explains herself to Wayne in the form of Sawyer; he awakens from the
fever, having no idea what she is talking about. Kate escorts him
through the hatch, and out to the jungle; Kate is visited by the black
horse she has been seeing, which Sawyer also witnesses.
After unlocking Locke and Jack out of the gun cache, they go out on a
trek to find Michael. John asks Sawyer why he doesn't use his real
name, James Ford, and where he got the name Sawyer. When the Others
confront the hunting party, Sawyer is shot again, but only grazed in
the face by a bullet. The leader of the Others, whom Sawyer nicknames
"Zeke," threatens Kate; Sawyer is obviously shaken and
angered at the possibility of losing her, and hugs her when she is
finally released. When they get back to camp Sawyer comforts Kate in
saying that he would have done the same thing that she did.
In "The Long Con" Jack raids Sawyer's tent and tells him
that he stole medicine from the hatch. Kate and Sawyer hear Sun
screaming and run to her. They find her unconscious and bring her back
to camp. They later go back out to where she was attacked and Sawyer
says that the bag used to cover Sun's head was not the same as the one
used by The Others on Kate, making Sawyer suspect that someone from
camp did it. Sawyer goes to the hatch to tell Locke that Jack and
other survivors are coming for the guns. That night, Sawyer tells
everyone that if they want a gun, they need to get it from him. Kate
confronts him later in the night, and asks him why he has to make
everyone hate him. He replies that at least she still likes him. Even
later that night Sawyer meets up with Charlie. Sawyer had employed
Charlie to hurt Sun and that he had planned the entire thing. He later
tells Charlie that he has never done a good thing in his life. |
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Information
and image taken from:
ABC's Lost Site and Wikipedia.org |
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