Australia

 James Riley Dawson, more commonly known as Riley Dawson, is an Australian actor. He is best known for his recurring role as Richard Irwin in soap-opera Away and Home. In February 2011, he was transferred to Meraviglie productions.

Early Life
Dawson was born in Sydney, New South Wales. He is the older brother of {Wy}.

He spent most of his early years with a carefree mindset. From a young age, he played sports and learnt to swim and surf in the ocean. His father is the owner of a small zoo on the outskirts of Sydney, listed as a koala sanctuary, and hence, having grown up around them, Riley himself has always been incredibly fond of animals. His mother is of British birth, and the younger sister of the mother of British musician Arthur Kirkland, making he and Dawson maternal cousins. His family would visit his aunt in London every other year before the birth of his younger sister.

Riley was noted for being a very disruptive and unruly child in school, however, he seemed to calm down when his mother, at a loss for how to control his behavior, enrolled him into acting school at age seven.

Career
As an actor, Dawson is well known in Australia, New Zealand and the UK as Richard Irwin in the Australian soap-opera Away and Home, a role he played for roughly a decade, from 2001 until the end of the soap in New Years 2011. Before then, the only other work he had was a few fleeting extras in certain movies. When Away and Home came to an end, Kookaburra, the company he was aligned with, were at a loss for what to do with his career. Luckily, Meraviglie came into contact with Kookaburra asking for an actor to suit a role in upcoming crime drama series CSI: LA. Riley was hence transferred to Los Angeles to begin filming.

Personal Life
Dawson first came to LA after the transfer in February 2011. He lives alone in temporary accomodation provided by Meraviglie, rumoured to be the currently empty manor that houses the contestants of America's Next Top Model. This is likely due to how quickly the transfer happened. Since then, he has been busy filming, and so little is actually known about his life in the USA, so far.

Filmography
Films TV

Trivia

 * Riley is apparently very artistically talented.
 * It's rumoured that he's received quite a few speeding tickets since beginning his life in the USA.
 * He has stated that if he hadn't become an actor, he'd have likely been a sports player instead.
 * He also once mentioned that his cousin, Arthur Kirkland, wrote a song about him. Said song was called 'Tosspot' and has never been recorded or released.