Biography

Stan was born in the Romanian city of Constan?a. At age 8, he and his mother moved to Vienna, Austria where she was employed as a pianist. Four years later (age 12), his mother moved with him to Rockland County, New York after she married the headmaster of an American private school.

During his years at the Rockland Country Day School, he starred in productions like Harvey, Cyrano de Bergerac, Little Shop of Horrors, Over Here, and West Side Story. He also attended the Stagedoor Manor summer camp where he was introduced to acting and was cast in many camp productions. It was then that he decided to take acting seriously and began to apply for acting programs at several universities.

He was accepted to and attended Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts. This gave him the opportunity to spend a year abroad studying acting at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, England.

After returning from England, Stan continued to attend Rutgers and was cast in small roles in independent films like Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding and Red Doors. He was also cast in a guest starring role on Law & Order as “Justin Capshaw”, a boy who was accused of murder and had been kidnapped and emotionally abused by his captor.

Immediately after graduating from Rutgers in 2005, Stan was cast in The Architect. He portrayed Chase Collins in The Covenant that same year.

He was cast in Eric Bogosian’s play Talk Radio as “Kent” in 2007 where he had a chance to work with veteran Broadway actor, Liev Schreiber.

In 2007 Stan appeared in an episode of Gossip Girl, “Bad News Blair” and “Hi, Society”, as Carter Baizen. In 2009 Stan reprised Gossip Girl role in two episodes, “The Age of Dissonance” and “The Grandfather”. He also returned in a surprise appearance for the season finale, “The Goodbye Gossip Girl”. Stan will reprise his role as Carter in season 3.

Sebastian’s latest film, The Education of Charlie Banks, directed by Fred Durst, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April and won an award for “Best New York Narrative.” He starred in Kings on NBC, where he portrayed Prince Jack Benjamin, the closeted gay eldest son of King Silas Benjamin and an analogue to the biblical Jonathan.

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