Brian Van Holt has captured attention and acclaim in a diverse slate of big screen projects. In Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down, he starred opposite Josh Hartnett and Tom Sizemore as Task Force Ranger Strueker, who tries to save a squadron of ambushed Marines in Scott's vivid recreation of the 1993 assault in Mogadishu, Somalia. Working alongside Nicolas Cage and Christian Slater, Van Holt starred in yet another fact-based wartime story about Native Americans whose language was used as a code for the Allied forces during World War II in John Woo's Windtalkers. He also co-starred opposite John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson as one of two survivors of a Special Forces jungle training mission gone awry in John McTiernan's military thriller Basic, for Columbia Pictures, and then switched gears to portray a conman alongside Edward Burns, Rachel Weisz, Paul Giamatti and Dustin Hoffman in James Foley's Confidence. He reunited with Samuel L. Jackson as a member of an elite Los Angeles police squad in Columbia Pictures' summer hit actioner S.W.A.T. And later appeared with Paris Hilton and Elisha Cuthbert in House of Wax.

A native of suburban Chicago, Van Holt grew up in California, where he began his acting career as a teenager, performing in several stage productions at the Zephyr Theater in Los Angeles. After graduating from UCLA with a degree in sociology, he concentrated on his acting career, landing commercial roles before debuting on TV as a blue-collar building superintendent in the CBS sitcom Love and Money and the motion picture screen as a playboy opposite Amanda Peet in the romantic comedy Whipped.

Van Holt has logged a number of memorable guest spots on such popular television series as HBO's perennial Emmy nominee Sex in the City, Late Night with Al Franken, NBC's police drama Homicide: Life on the Streets and ABC'S hit sitcom Spin City. Other television credits include Steel Chariots and a guest stint on Beverly Hills, 90210. In 2005, Van Holt appeared as Cavennaugh in CBS's Threshold.