Artin John
Biography
In school, Artin John Tsambazis could not decide whether to pursue acting, aviation, or law. Now he acts, and the latter two he maintains an interest in. Artin stars as Joseph Reid in the CBS season 5 finale of SWAT. He appears in Ron Howard directed Thirteen Lives (MGM) in a minor supporting role opposite Viggo Mortensen and Colin Farrell, and can be seen in a major supporting role in romantic comedy feature Love in Bloom. He is Monty Holden in Watch Dogs Legion (Ubisoft), and Leander in Assassins Creed Odyssey (Ubisoft). Artin plays Ian - a 1970's British Rockstar in DC's Legends of Tomorrow, and can be seen in Warner Brothers Television's Supergirl, as a nefarious member of the "Children of Liberty". He took on the role of Italian mobster Anthony Skomal, in Death Note (Netflix), directed by Adam Wingard. His credits include The X Files and Lucifer (FOX), A&E's The Returned, & CW shows iZombie, The Tomorrow People, Supernatural, Arrow and Emily Owens M.D. Artin comes from a theatrical background, and has since made the transition to film & television. At age 17 he was awarded a scholarship to a prestigious US film and acting School, but deferred in order to make things happen for himself in the real world. Artin performed in, as well as produced the multi-award winning science fiction film 2BR02B: To Be Or Naught To Be (starring Melissa Roxburgh), based on the story by Kurt Vonnegut, with his producing partner Derek Pedersson. Artin and Derek are producing the feature film Druuna: Morbus Gravis (based on the Heavy Metal Magazine comics by Italian creator Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri). Artin's theater roles include A Steady Rain, by Keith Huff, where he reprised the Hugh Jackman Broadway role.
Known For & Full Filmography14 Titles
Drama Series - 2005, 16 episodes • as Demon Technician
When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.
Drama Series - 2017, 16 episodes • as Joseph
A Los Angeles S.W.A.T. sergeant is assigned to lead a highly skilled unit in the community where he grew up. Torn between loyalty to the streets, where the cops are sometimes the enemy, and allegiance to his brothers in blue, he strategically straddles the two worlds.
Drama Series - 2012, 16 episodes • as Waiter
Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.
Drama Series - 2016, 16 episodes • as UNI Cop
Bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, Lucifer Morningstar abandoned his throne and retired to Los Angeles, where he has teamed up with LAPD detective Chloe Decker to take down criminals. But the longer he's away from the underworld, the greater the threat that the worst of humanity could escape.
Drama Series - 1993, 16 episodes • as Shiraz
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes • as Col
Twenty-four-year-old Kara Zor-El, who was taken in by the Danvers family when she was 13 after being sent away from Krypton, must learn to embrace her powers after previously hiding them. The Danvers teach her to be careful with her powers, until she has to reveal them during an unexpected disaster, setting her on her journey of heroism.
Drama Series - 2016, 16 episodes • as Ian
When heroes alone are not enough ... the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat — one in which not only is the planet at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known?
Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes • as Car Seller / Patrick Edward
A medical student who becomes a zombie joins a Coroner's Office in order to gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat so that she can maintain her humanity. But every brain she eats, she also inherits their memories and must now solve their deaths with help from the Medical examiner and a police detective.
Drama Series - 2013, 16 episodes • as Control Subject
The story of several young people from around the world who represent the next stage in human evolution, possessing special powers, including the ability to teleport and communicate with each other telepathically. Together they work to defeat the forces of evil.
Movie - 2022, 2h 15m • as Reporter #2
Based on the true nail-biting mission that captivated the world. Twelve boys and the coach of a Thai soccer team explore the Tham Luang cave when an unexpected rainstorm traps them in a chamber inside the mountain. Entombed behind a maze of flooded cave tunnels, they face impossible odds. A team of world-class divers navigate through miles of dangerous cave networks to discover that finding the boys is only the beginning.
Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • as Anthony Skomal
Light Turner finds a supernatural notebook and uses it to mete out death, attracting the attention of a detective, a demon and a girl in his class.
Drama Series - 2012, 16 episodes • as Intern Matson
At long last, Emily Owens feels like she is an actual grown-up. She's graduated from medical school and is now a first-year intern at Denver Memorial Hospital. So why does everyone keep warning her that the hospital is just like high school?
Movie - 2022, 2h 15m • as Peter
When Chicago florist Amelia Hart travels to a small town in Australia to help plan her sister’s wedding, she finds new meaning in the town’s beautiful gardens, and love where she least expected.
Movie - 2025, 2h 15m • as Padre Giovanni
In 2015, Roman Catholic priest Rob Galea joined the Australian version of The X Factor but, due to his holy duties, had to withdraw. But this didn't stop him from becoming a widely beloved contemporary Christian singer-songwriter.