Bryan Rasmussen was born in Tucson, Arizona and raised one of six children in Colorado Springs, Colorado, He migrated to California where he broke onto the L.A. theatre scene with his critically-accaimed portrayal of the troubled Alan Strang in “Equus” at the CAST Theater, garnering Drama-Logue and LA Weekly awards. After receiving his B.A. in Theatre from Cal State Long Beach, he attended both the American Coservatory Theatre in San Francisco and South Coast Repertory on scholarship and was a company member when SCR won the Tony Award in 1985. At SCR, he appeared in “Henry IV Pt.1”, “The Play’s the Thing”, “ Romeo and Juliet”, “The Fitness Game”, and played Young Scrooge in their acclaimed “A Christmas Carol”. Other theatre credits include the world premiere of “A Voyage to Arcturus” as a member of the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, the American premiere of the 8-hour saga “Merlin” at First Stage, and the West Coast premiere of “Burkie” at the International City Theatre.

Mr. Rasmussen has also received international acclaim for his solo play based on the life of Vincent van Gogh; “Sincerly Yours, Vincent” playing sold-out shows at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu and at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. He also starred as Dr. Stockmann in “Enemy of the People”, which won him another Drama-Logue award, as well as in “Rimers of Eldritch”, and “He Who Gets Slapped” with the acclaimed Singular Ensemble in Culver City.
In addition to acting, he’s also an accomplished director, producer, and teacher.

Founder of the Itchey Foot Cabaret, he produced over 50 projects there, including 20 world premieres. He also created the Mask Training Program for the Opera Conservatory at the Los Angeles Music Center and also has taught at the Adam Hill Studio, South Coast Repertory. Baron/Brown Studio, Macker Entertainment, The City of Gardena, with his present residence being at the Piero Dusa Acting Conservatory in Santa Monica.

Bryan has completed extensive study with some of the theatre world’s most prominent talents including the late Jose’ Quintero, Jagienka Zych of the Polish National Theatre, William Chow of the Peking Opera, Libby Appel of Ashland Shakespeare, Ada Brown Mather of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Yuri Belov of the Moscow Art Theatre, and Christopher Swaja of the Berliner Ensemble.

Film credits include, “Hunter’s Blood” with Billy Bob Thornton, Sam Raimi’s cult classic “Army of Darkness”, “Liberty and Bash”, and independent films “One Slim Dime”,”Making Contact”, and “Sex and a Girl” which he also asst. produced . On T.V., Bryan guest-starred (re-curring) on “The Court”,“ER”, ”Alias” as well as “The X-Files”, “JAG”,”Strong Medicine, “Beverly Hills 90210”, “Walker;Texas Ranger”, with his most recent appearance being on ”Presidio Med” as well as currently recurring as CTU Agent Ed Miller on the hit series “24”with Kiefer Sutherland. His voice-over work includes , “City Slickers 2” and Disney’s “A Goofy Movie”. He also recently re-teamed with Billy Bob Thornton, starring in his music video “Starlight Lounge”.