The magic of Hallmark Channel motion pictures is not simply fabricated from holidays or decorations or a wonderfully timed kiss simply as snowflakes start to fall.
A key ingredient to the community’s secret sauce is its roster of exceptionally sort and extremely handsome actors. From Tyler Hynes’ self-deprecating appeal to Jonathan Bennett’s humor and coronary heart, they’re undoubtedly a part of creating the enjoyment that retains followers coming again time and time once more.
So, with the community’s fifteenth annual Countdown to Christmas kicking off proper in the midst of PEOPLE’s personal countdown to Sexiest Man Alive, we could not miss out on the excuse to rejoice these high quality fellows.
Robert Buckley
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The One Tree Hill and Lipstick Jungle alum kicks off the season with ‘Twas the Date Earlier than Christmas, additionally starring Amy Groening, premiering Oct. 18 on Hallmark Channel. He has a level in economics from the College of California at San Diego.
Benjamin Ayres
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The daddy of two seems in three Christmas motion pictures this 12 months: Santa Inform Me with Erin Krakow and Daniel Lissing (Nov. 9 on Hallmark Channel), The Santa Class with Kimberley Sustad (Nov. 14 on Hallmark Channel), and Joyful Holidays from Cherry Lane with Catherine Bell, James Denton, Erica Durance, Julie Gonzalo and Ryan Rottman (Dec. 12 on Hallmark+). He is additionally the chancellor of Romance University, which sells fan-centric swag with partial proceeds from each buy going to ladies’s and kids’s charities.
Victor Webster
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The Days of Our Lives alum joined Alison Sweeney for the newest in her Hannah Swensen thriller sequence, A Sprinkle of Deceit, on Oct. 4. He’s additionally a passionate photographer and his work might be discovered on his dedicated Instagram page.
Dennis Haysbert
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The 24 alum’s breakout position was as Pedro Cerrano, a voodoo practising baseball participant in 1989’s Main League. Now he is starring within the new Hallmark+ sequence Holidazed, launching Nov. 14.
Niall Matter
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Matter joins Alison Sweeney on This Time Every Yr premiering Oct. 24 on Hallmark Thriller. The actor almost died in an oil rig accident when he was 25 that left him needing to relearn easy methods to stroll — and reevaluating his profession. He is since starred in additional than 25 motion pictures for the community.
Brendan Penny
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The Chesapeake Shores alum earned a Bachelor’s diploma in accounting earlier than learning performing. He subsequent stars alongside Julie Gonzalo in A Novel Noel, premiering Nov. 21 on Hallmark Thriller.
Andrew Walker
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The Curious Caterer star has two Christmas motion pictures arising: Jingle Bell Run with Ashley Williams, premiering Nov. 16, and Three Wiser Males and a Boy — the sequel to 2022’s Three Clever Males and a Child — additionally starring Tyler Hynes, Paul Campbell and Margaret Colin, debuting on Nov. 23. The Canadian actor and father of two just lately launched a skincare line known as Skin Mason.
Wes Brown
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The True Blood alum stars in Deck the Partitions alongside Ashley Greene and Danny Pellegrino, premiering Nov. 29 on Hallmark Channel, and hosts the brand new docuseries Prepared, Set, Glow!, which is able to showcase spectacular vacation lights shows from across the nation. He additionally launched a vacation album, My Kind of Christmas, final 12 months.
Tyler Hynes
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The Canadian actor has a whopping 5 motion pictures popping out within the fourth quarter of 2024: The Groomsmen trilogy with Jonathan Bennett and B.J. Britt (Oct. 17, 24 and 31 on Hallmark+), Three Wiser Males and a Boy with Andrew Walker and Paul Campbell (Nov. 23 on Hallmark Channel), and Vacation Landing: A Chiefs Love Story (Nov. 30 on Hallmark Channel) with Hunter King and an entire slew of sitcom stars and cameos (together with Donna Kelce). When he is not working around the globe making motion pictures, he is skateboarding and spending high quality time together with his canine, Rusty James.
Kevin McGarry
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The actor joins Taylor Cole for A Cause for the Season, Nov. 14 on Hallmark Thriller. He just lately married his When Calls the Coronary heart costar Kayla Wallace.
Ben Hollingsworth
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Take into account Ben in his busy season. On Nov. 14, he’ll star with Anuja Joshi in Christmas with the Singhs on Hallmark Channel. Then, on Dec. 19, the brand new season of his Netflix sequence, Virgin River, drops on the identical day as his Hallmark+ film Deck the Halls on Cherry Lane, which additionally stars John Brotherton, Erin Cahill, Brooke D’Orsay, Chelsea Hobbs, Sam Web page and Matt Nightfall. The daddy of three is an enormous hockey fan (and might truly skate!).
Dan Jeannotte
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The Canadian actor joins Mallory Jansen in All I Want for Christmas, premiering Dec. 12 on Hallmark Thriller. Along with breakout roles on The Good Witch, Reign, and The Daring Sort, he has finished a bunch of voice work for the Murderer’s Creed video video games.
Jonathan Bennett
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The Imply Ladies alum who seems to be attractive together with his hair pushed again is co-creator and host of Discovering Mr. Christmas, which debuts Oct. 31 on Hallmark+. The community’s first actuality competitors sequence sees 10 males competing to be the star of a Hallmark Christmas film. Bennett additionally has 4 motion pictures this quarter: The Groomsmen trilogy (Oct. 17, 24 and 31 on Hallmark+) and the sequel to his Christmas film from final 12 months, Season’s Greetings from Cherry Lane, additionally starring Annabelle Borke, Corey Cott, Sarah Dugdale, Shannon Kook and Vincent Rodriguez III (Dec. 5 on Hallmark+). He and his husband, Jaymes Vaughn, share an adorable dog named Brad.
Jordan Fisher
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The actor and singer — who additionally received season 25 of Dancing with the Stars — joins Katie Findlay in The 5-Yr Christmas Celebration, airing Oct. 27 on Hallmark Channel. He just lately executive-produced an off-Broadway present, Fairly Good Lives, about an influencer couple, and is at the moment starring in Hadestown on Broadway.
Will Kemp
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The dapper Brit stars in My Candy Austrian Vacation with Brittany Bristow, debuting Oct. 31 on Hallmark Thriller. The daddy of two skilled on the Royal Ballet Faculty in England.
John Brotherton
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The Fuller Home alum stars in Following Yonder Star with Brooke D’Orsay on Dec. 15 on Hallmark Channel in addition to Deck the Halls on Cherry Lane with Erin Cahill, D’Orsay, Chelsea Hobbs, Benjamin Hollingsworth, Sam Web page and Matt Nightfall. He is a “#girldad” to 2 daughters.
Marco Grazzini
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The Virgin River actor stars in Christmas Beneath the Lights with Heather Hemmens, premiering Nov. 27 on Hallmark Thriller. He and his spouse, fellow Hallmark actress Alvina August, welcomed their first little one, a woman, in September 2023.
B.J. Britt
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The Being Mary Jane alum stars within the Groomsmen trilogy alongside Jonathan Bennett and Tyler Hynes (Oct. 17, 24 and 31). The actor performed the Bachelor-like lead on UnREAL in 2016.
James Denton
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Denton reunites together with his The Good Witch costar Catherine Bell in Joyful Holidays from Cherry Lane — alongside Benjamin Ayres, Erica Durance, Julie Gonzalo and Ryan Rottman — on Dec. 12 on Hallmark+ after which they’re going to meet up once more Dec. 13-15 at Christmas Con in New Jersey.
Paul Campbell
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The Battlestar Galactica alum rejoins his Three Clever Males and a Child costars, Andrew Walker and Tyler Hynes, for the sequel, Three Wiser Males and a Boy, on Nov. 23 on Hallmark Channel, which he additionally co-wrote.
Kristoffer Polaha
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The Marvel Girl actor stars alongside Lacey Chabert in The Christmas Quest, airing Dec. 1 on Hallmark Channel. The daddy of three is the co-author of a sequence of romance novels with Anna Gomez.
Ser’Darius Blain
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The Charmed actor seems in each Holidazed — the brand new sequence on Hallmark+ additionally that includes Dennis Haysbert, Erin Cahill, Holland Roden, Ian Harding, John C. McGinley, Lindy Sales space, Loretta Devine, Lucille Soong, Nazneen Contractor, Noemi Gonzalez, Osric Chau, Rachelle Lefevre and Virginia Madsen and premiering Nov. 14 — and Christmas on Name, a brand new rom-com costarring Sara Canning and that includes an look from Donna Kelce on Nov. 22 on Hallmark Channel.
Ian Harding
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The Fairly Little Liars alum joins Dennis Haysbert, Erin Cahill, Holland Roden, John C. McGinley, Lindy Sales space, Loretta Devine, Lucille Soong, Nazneen Contractor, Noemi Gonzalez, Osric Chau, Rachelle Lefevre, Ser’Darius Blain and Virginia Madsen within the new sequence Holidazed, which premieres on Hallmark+ Nov. 14. He’ll additionally seem alongside Lindsay Lohan in her Netflix vacation film, Our Little Secret.
Vincent Rodriguez III
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The Loopy Ex-Girlfriend alum reprises his position from final 12 months’s Cherry Lane film, becoming a member of Jonathan Bennett, Annabelle Borke, Corey Cott, Sarah Dugdale and Shannon Kook in Season’s Greetings from Cherry Lane on Dec. 5 on Hallmark+. He’s at the moment touring a solo cabaret performance.
Sam Web page
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On Dec. 19 on Hallmark+, Web page seems in Deck the Halls on Cherry Lane with John Brotherton, Erin Cahill, Brooke D’Orsay, Chelsea Hobbs, Benjamin Hollingsworth and Matt Nightfall. The Wisconsin native performed “Stone Chilly Fox Boy” on season 1 of Fashionable in 1999.
