• Born David Anders Holt, he adopted the professional surname Anders because another actor was already using David Holt.
• Before his television breakthrough, he worked at Gap and taught tennis.
• He secured the role of Julian Sark on Alias only after four auditions involving four different accents.
• Sark went without a first name for roughly two years before the Alias writers finally named him Julian.
• Anders initially resisted guest-starring on Charmed but reconsidered when told he could wear a mustache and work with Billy Zane.
• He starred with original Rent cast member Rodney Hicks in the New York world premiere of the rock musical Beautiful.
• As a vocalist with the actors’ charity group Band From TV, he planned to sing Al Green’s Let’s Stay Together at a performance.
• He and Chris Wylde shared the 2009 New York City Horror Film Festival’s Best Actor award for The Revenant.