Colton Haynes

Haynes has struggled with anxiety all his life owing to speculations of his sexual orientation. However, he came out of the closet in an interview with ‘Entertainment Weekly’ in 2016 and revealed that he is gay.

Haynes and Jeff Leatham, a celebrity florist, were in a long-term relationship before Haynes publically announced his engagement to the latter on 11th March, 2017.

Colton Lee Haynes was born in Andale, Kansas on 13th July, 1988 to Dana Denise Mitchell and William Clayton Haynes. He grew up in a farm alongside his five siblings.

His parents lived like hippies and thus Colton kept relocating. He studied in three high schools ‘Navarre High School’ in Florida, ‘Andale High School’ in Kansas and eventually graduated from ‘Samuel Clemens High School’ in Texas.

All through his school years he was fond of singing and sports. During his junior year he won the ‘Gatorade Player of the Year’ in Tennis and was nominated for Prom King in his senior year.

During his school years, Colton worked as the ‘Red Robin bird Mascot’ at a restaurant during his summer break. He later turned towards modelling and worked for brands like ‘Fitch’ and ‘Abercrombie’.

One of his earliest photo shoots was for Abercrombie & Fitch. He began modelling in his mid teens and within a few years he worked in campaigns for J.C. Penney, Kira Plastinina and for the multi-billion dollar fashion brand Ralph Lauren.

He has appeared in some of the biggest magazine editorials such as ‘Teen Vogue’ and ‘Arena’, and has worked in a campaign for America’s largest wireless communications service provider.

He landed his first uncredited performance in the sci-fi action film ‘Transformers’ as the cafe kid in 2007. The same year he also made a small appearance in the TV series ‘CSI: Miami’ as Brandon Fox in the episode ‘Bang Bang Your Debt’.

In 2007, he even appeared in the music video of ‘I Don’t Love You’ by ‘My Chemical Romance’. He also auditioned for the role of Edward Cullen in the supernatural romance ‘Twilight’ that was later bagged by Robert Pattison.

He played a guest role in the TV series ‘Privileged’ as Alexander in the ‘All About Friends and Family’ episode and as Ares Kostopolous in the episode ‘Frescorts‘ in ‘Pushing Daisies’.

In 2010, he landed a main role on the ABC television show ‘The Gates’ as Brett Crezski. He worked alongside Frank Grillo, Janina Gavankar and James Preston in the show for eleven episodes.

The show got cancelled, but Colton quickly found himself playing the main role of Carl Mccormick in the short film ‘Yearbook’ in 2011. He also starred in another short film titled ‘Charlie Brown: Blockhead’s Revenge’ as Linus van Pelt.

By 2011, he had bagged another main role in the MTV series ‘Teen Wolf’ as Jackson Whittemore which spanned 24 episodes. The same year he also guest starred in ‘The Nine Lives of Chloe King’ as Kai in the episode ‘Dogs of War.

In 2013, he signed the recurring role of Roy Harper, a street thug in the crime-action television series ‘Arrow’. In the second and third season of the show, he returned as a main character playing Arsenal, a protégé of Arrow.

He has also starred in several music videos. Some of which were Leona Lewis’s ‘Trouble’ and in Victoria Justice’s ‘Gold’ as well as Andy Grammer’s music video ‘Honey, I’m Good’.