Eric Johnson began his acting career at nine when his parents enrolled him in Stage Polaris, an Edmonton theatrical company.
In Legends of the Fall, Johnson played the younger version of Brad Pitt’s character. Johnson starred in the award-winning film Scorn in Canada. The following year, in 2001, he made his breakthrough as a football jock and Clark Kent nemesis Whitney Fordman in Smallville.
Johnson starred in a new Flash Gordon TV series that premiered on Sci-Fi in August 2007. In April 2008, the show was terminated after one season. On November 27, 2010, he played Jake Finley in Debbie Macomber’s Call Me Mrs. Miracle, a Hallmark movie.
In 2013, Johnson was cast in Cinemax’s original medical drama The Knick as a racist but talented young medic who is Clive Owen’s pupil; the series is being executive produced by Steven Soderbergh.
Johnson was cast as Jack Hyde in Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed on February 12, 2016.
