Personal details
Born:
- Birthday: 1987-01-18
- Born Place: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Also Known As:
Zane B. Holtz, Zane-Ray Brodie Holtz, Zane-Ray Holtz
Zane Holtz
Zane-Ray Brodie Holtz (born January 18, 1987) is a Canadian actor and former model who gained prominence for his roles in film and television, with a career beginning as a child model in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he was born. He relocated to California in 1999 at the age of 12 with his mother and three younger brothers to pursue greater access to the U.S. entertainment industry. Holtz made his feature film debut as Louis "Barfbag" in the Disney adaptation Holes (2003) and later gained wider recognition for his work in the film The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) as Chris Kelmeckis, for which he won a San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Ensemble Performance. On television, he is best known for portraying Richie Gecko in the El Rey Network series From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series (2014–2016) and as Ko Kelly in the CW series Katy Keene (2020). Other notable credits include the action thriller Hunter Killer (2018) and the war veteran drama Battle Scars (2015). He has also appeared in the long-running procedural NCIS as NCIS Special Agent Dale Sawyer and is slated to appear in the 2025 Western film Frontier Crucible. Holtz is married to Chelsea Thea Pagnini and they have four children together, and he currently resides in Austin, Texas.
