Knight Rider Shirtless Justin Bruening

An American actor and former fashion model, often cited as one of television’s most beautiful people. Justin Bruening was born on September 24, 1979 in Chadron, Nebraska. Raised in the small town of St. Helena, Nebraska (a then-population of 85), he graduated from high school with only nine classmates.Following graduation, Bruening moved to San Diego, California. It was there that he was discovered by Sue Nessel, a talent scout for Scott Copeland International, at McDonald’s in Escondido just north of San Diego.Soon there after, Copeland got him his first modeling job for Abercrombie & Fitch.

On November 2, 2007, it was announced that he would be starring in a new spin of the original Knight Rider series, portraying the original Knight Rider’s son, Mike Traceur, for a two-hour special on NBC. The original having been portrayed by actor David Hasselhoff, newspaper The Hollywood Reporter immediately took notice to the similarities between the two castings:


Gorgeous!








