Porter Davin was forced in front of a camera. Born on the fourteenth day of March in 1983, Porter was always the spotlight of his mother's eye; his mother's eye that only saw things in terms of dollars and cents, and refused to believe that she, herself, was a washed up actress with a bank account that could no longer afford a lavish Hollywood lifestyle.
The year was 1990, and Porter's mother had just divorced her second husband since his father. On a short notice and without a babysitter, Porter found himself at his first real audition, something that wasn't another commercial his mom put him up to. Originally intended for his mother, Porter ended up stealing the spotlight while she ran over her lines beside him. With his gameboy in hand, he didn't look up, nor did he flinch every time he told his mom that she "wasn't doing it right." Out of spite she handed him the script and told him to go in an audition and do it better, so he did. For the role that his mother was reading, the wife and mother of three, Jill Taylor. The directors asked him to read for a different part, and although he wasn't familiar with those lines, or the character, he managed to read the script with prowess that most could not give on their first try. Out of the two of them, Porter was the one with a call back, and another audition plus screen test, he was shooting a pilot for a show called Home Improvement, playing the youngest son, Mark Taylor.

The show ran for 8 years. 8 years that Porter grew up in front of a camera, and 8 years that his mother could afford to live as a queen. Shortly after his 15th birthday, knowing that the show was on it's way to its last season, Porter told his mom that he was going to go back to school once the show wrapped, wanting to be a real high school student instead of now playing one on television. Not surprisingly, his mother said no and told him that he'd stay in a home studies program so he could go on and audition for other parts. So he agreed. He gave up the chance to go and interact with real people, and go to prom and live like any teenager just to make movies. His first feature film was a small role as Simon Boggs in She's All That, a movie that he now cites as a mistake. Although he was a student in real life, he no longer wanted to portray one but, his mother thought otherwise. Counting down the days until he turned 18, he filmed the lead role in Final Destination, released in the fall of 2000. He kept his eyes open on other roles, and now that he was old enough to get to auditions by himself, his mom stopped babying him and driving him all over Los Angeles, which gave Porter the freedom to pick and choose what he wanted to audition for, if he even wanted to in the first place.

Instead of going to auditions or call backs for roles he thought were wastes of time, Porter spent his days working on his studies. Meeting with his teacher at any free moment she had, and putting in more than the required amount of time per week just to make sure that he would be finished before June. By the time his birthday came around, he was on the last stretch, only needing to take his final exams. As far as gifts and a party went, Porter thought they were anti-climatic. He already received a car at 16, being an Acura Integra. He knew that he would be paying for it, so he asked for a BMW and watched his mother buy it for herself. 18 was the call of freedom he was looking for. His trust account was down to only half a million of the estimated 5 it should have been. With a smile on his face, he moved out and into an apartment until he finished school, saying goodbye to a live that he never asked for, nor did he want. The only ties he had to his mom were the fact that she gave birth to him, and his father was almost non-existent. Even his mother's new husbands, he never called any of them dad, and never will.

Porter finally received his diploma in early May of 2001, and didn't bother with a party or waiting until June to walk in the class ceremony. It wasn't important to him. He already missed out on the entire high school life, and that would be just another reminder. Just as he was about to bid farewell to Los Angeles, and move across the country for college, wanting a real school experience, his agent asked him to take a look at one more script before he left. He gave in and read it over, and then gave in again by accepting the role. Filmed over a summer in North Carolina in 2001, A Walk To Remember was released in 2002, with Porter playing the lead male, Landon Carter. After filming he relocated to New York City and enrolled at Columbia, majoring in writing. If there was one thing he knew from spending years and years working in the industry, he knew what was good and what wasn't, and no matter where he was or what he was doing, he usually had a notebook and a pen within arms reach. In 2002, he was back in California, not just for promotion for A Walk To Remember, but also pre-production on a new film called, Orange County. Porter had promised himself that he wouldn't return to high school roles, but after reading the script he couldn't stop himself from laughing at his character's misfortune. During filming he returned back to New York for semester finals, then resumed filming, and was back home at the end of the summer.
His next project was, The Rules of Attraction in 2003 and released in 2004. It was such a different film, and Porter was only drawn to it because it was a Bret Easton Elis novel. Though it was nothing compared to American Psycho, he did enjoy that it was a part two of sorts, and to be affiliated with Bret Easton Elis was good enough for him. Shortly after filming began, after two years, Porter had dropped out of Columbia, finding it difficult to juggle filming while taking a full semester of classes. There was only so much that his professors could do, and only so much that Porter could do to handle both. Though he wishes to go back and finish, he doesn't regret his choice.

Since his final bow from television, Porter told himself that he'd never return to tv. Perhaps it was because he was a child, but he hated the rush of filming a new show in a week, and being constantly on the go for 9 months. As he got older, he realized that movies weren't much different. This show in particular was something different, and he thought it had a great concept behind it. He didn't like the fact that he was playing a high school student again, but he did enjoy that on the same aspect, he could play an adult. Reunion began airing as part of the 2005-06 season, though it never made it past 2005 and 9 aired episodes. The show was praised all around by the media and the press, but it couldn't secure enough ratings to continue on. Taking that as his cue, he gave up on the acting for a while, though he had another project coming out in the spring of 2006, though it became an independent, straight to dvd release. Wanting to get back into the swing of things, Porter looked at his options and picked a script at random from the pile that his agent sent him. Across The Universe.
Porter wasn't sure of his musical abilities. The top of the script said, please be prepared to sing a Beatles song upon your audition. He spent the weeks leading up to the audition listening to only The Beatles, trying to refresh himself with their music. He read for the character of Max, and sang, "Happiness is a Warm Gun," his favorite song of all time, and a song that he later found out would be one that his character would have to perform. Out of what seemed like a million people, Porter was lucky enough to get the role, though he originally wanted to play Jude. He knew he couldn't pull off an accent, and even if he was simply cast as an extra, to be affiliated with such a project was an honor.

His latest project is the recently released, Lord Of War, where he plays the slightly troubled, yet voice of reason, Vitaly Orlov. Another project that was a bit different, but it was a story that needed to be told. He worked with a tutor and learned a bit of Russian for the few lines that he would need to know, and even went to a shooting range to prepare. The film took him all over the world, and to places he wouldn't see on his own. Although it didn't open up at the box office in the way everyone thought it would, it's still a project that Porter is extremely proud of.
Porter's next film, to begin shooting after the first of the year is, Tristan & Isolde, with Porter playing the title role of Tristan. A role that many didn't think he could pull off to begin with because of his lack of a British accent, and now moreso because he was just recently outed as being gay. After growing up in the spotlight, Porter tried his best to keep his private life exactly that. Private. He believed that it's no one's business, and it shouldn't affect people's views of him and the roles he receives. Filming is still engaged to happen, with Porter still in the lead role.


- Hasn't spoken with his mother since he turned 18 and moved out, though he does send cards for holidays, and purposely leaves them without a return address, and post marked for a different state. Still has no idea whom his father is, and doesn't care to know.
- Has any number of step siblings from his mother's previous marriages, and possibly a few half siblings as well even though his mother never stayed with anyone long enough to have children.
- Treats his closest friends as if they were family because they have always stuck by him and don't care about what he does as a living. They keep him grounded, and for all he knows, they truly are his blood.
- Growing up in front of a camera made Porter not want to be an actor anymore, but it was something that he couldn't say no to. Aside from writing, it was one of the only things that he knew how to do and could do on without flinching.
- He tries to keep his name out of the rags, and his private life, private. Living in New York has it's advantage that most of the time he can walk around relatively unnoticed, and not be subjected to a flashing camera all the time. For the times that it does happen, he's come to realize that it's just a part of life and has given up trying to ignore it.
- Is a bit of a homebody of sorts, and not to keep prying eyes out of his home. When he's not filming, he's usually at home trying to find other ways to be productive, mostly writing, though he can never say no to grabbing a drink with a friend at the bar.
- Porter has known he was gay since his years on Home Improvement but never bothered to come out and make a big scene about it. If people asked, he'd tell them, but he wasn't one to pour himself out there for the world to see. He would always show up dateless to premieres, and if he was out with friends, he was usually with both men and women as it is a group of friends hanging out. His dates with other men were never publicized because he was more of a 'order in and watch tv' kind of guy. He never said no to an out on the town date, and luckily, if the media caught wind, they always looked at it as two friends getting dinner and nothing else.
- He's always been "out of the closet" but Porter's big proverbial coming out party was when rumors were spread and reports were made that he and a fellow co-star were wed in California. At the time, they were simply co-workers. They never cared for each other and never spoke after filming. It was a chance meeting that they met, and a poor choice in judgment that they chose to get eloped, but every day, Porter reminds himself that he's taking responsibility and not everything can be solved with an annulment or a divorce.
- Is a relatively friendly and all around nice guy, but Porter can at times, have a very vindictive side and isn't one to let go of things very easily. The estrangement between he and his mother is because he refuses to acknowledge her and the fact that she threw him into a life that he never wanted, though these days, he isn't doing much complaining.
- Listens to a wide variety of music, though these days he's mostly into older artists, believing that the groups coming out now all sound the same.
- Is usually the guy who wears jeans and t-shirts to premieres, and in fact, has. If he's putting forth the effort to wear a suit, he'll dress up, but he's usually wearing Chuck Taylor's as well like he does every other day out of the year. He refuses to get a new pair until his current ones are falling apart, and even then, he'll continue to wear them, raggedy holes and all.