Ashton Holmes (born February 17, 1978) is an American actor, best known for the role of Jack Stall in A History of Violence (2005), Private Sidney Phillips in the HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), Thom on the CW action-thriller series Nikita (2010–2011), and as Tyler Barrol on the ABC drama series Revenge (2011–2012).

During his senior year of high school, he attended the intern program of the New York State Theater Institute.

[2] During this time, Holmes befriended Nyack, New York band Coheed and Cambria, and began shopping around their demos to local indie labels.

[3] Holmes made his debut on television with a recurring role in the daytime soap opera One Life to Live.

[7] From 2002 to 2005, Holmes was also part of the Collins Tour company for Jonathan Larson's musical, Rent, in which he played one of the lead characters, Mark Cohen.