Tyler Jordon Blackburn born October 12, 1986 is an American actor, singer and model. He is best known for playing Caleb Rivers on the hit Freeform series Pretty Little Liars and its spin-off, Ravenswood. He currently stars as Alex Manes in The CW series Roswell, New Mexico (2019–present).
Early life
Blackburn was born in Burbank, California. He has three brothers. His ancestry is English, Welsh, Czech, and Swedish. On a September 30, 2020 interview to the Pretty Little Wine Mom’s Podcast, he stated that a 23andMe DNA test showed him to have no Native American ancestry.
Blackburn has a 4 inch long scar on his left shoulder. This was caused due to the removal of a benign bone tumor at the age of 10.
Career
Acting
Blackburn began performing in 2004 and appeared on the series Unfabulous on Nickelodeon. In the following year he was a teacher in the short film The Doers of Coming Deeds. In 2008, he made a cameo in the film Next of Kin. In 2007, Blackburn appeared in Cold Case and Rockville CA, a webseries launched by Josh Schwartz. In 2010, he appeared on Days of Our Lives, Gigantic, and was also in the independent film Peach Plum Pear.
In October 2010, Blackburn was cast in a recurring role as Caleb Rivers in the television series Pretty Little Liars. He was upgraded to series regular for the third season starting in the summer of 2012. In March 2011, he joined the cast of the NBC comedy pilot Brave New World, which was not picked up to series.
Blackburn also starred as Pete in the six-episode web series Wendy, a project developed by Alloy Entertainment and Macy’s that was based on Peter Pan which premiered on September 15, 2011. In 2012, he starred in drama Hiding alongside Ana Villafañe, Jeremy Sumpter, Dean Armstrong and Dan Payne.
In May 2013, it was announced that Blackburn would star in the 2013 Pretty Little Liars‘ spin-off Ravenswood.
In March 2018, Blackburn joined the cast of The CW series Roswell, New Mexico.
Music
For his role in Alloy Entertainment web series Wendy, Blackburn recorded Golden State’s “Save Me” to be used as the show’s theme song, which was released on August 15, 2011. He recorded “Find a Way” in 2012 for the ABC Family television show, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, and the song played while he was starring on Pretty Little Liars. He has recorded several songs with Novi, including “Can’t Love Me” which played in the twelfth episode of Roswell, New Mexico.
Personal life
Blackburn publicly came out as bisexual on April 19, 2019 through an interview with The Advocate.