Travis Van Winkle

About

Travis Scott Van Winkle (born November 4, 1982) is an American actor, best known for starring in the feature film Accepted (2006), the 2021 third season of the Netflix streaming television series You, portraying Trent DeMarco in Transformers (2007), and Friday the 13th (2009), Lieutenant Danny Green in The Last Ship (2014–2018), and CIA operative Aldon Reese in the Netflix action comedy series FUBAR (2023–2025).

Van Winkle was born in Victorville, California, the middle of three children of Sally (née Fitzgerald) and Charles Van Winkle. When he was two years old, his family moved to Oscoda, Michigan. When he was eight, his family moved again to Peachtree City, Georgia, where he graduated from McIntosh High School and attended the University of West Georgia but did not graduate, leaving at age 20 to pursue his acting endeavors in Hollywood. He is a member of the Baháʼí Faith.

Van Winkle made his television debut in a December 2004 episode of the Fox sitcom Quintuplets, and has since appeared in shows such as That’s So Raven, Malcolm in the Middle, The O.C., and 7th Heaven. His film credits include one of the leads in Fox’s Meet the Spartans, David R. Ellis…