---
name: "Zach Roerig"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/zach-roerig"
fi1m_id: "zach-roerig"
imdb_id: "nm1813534"
tmdb_id: 221841
wikidata_id: "Q139385"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "22 February 1985"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T10:55:38.766026+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Zach Roerig

## Identity

Zach Roerig

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/zach-roerig
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** zach-roerig
- **IMDb ID:** nm1813534
- **TMDB ID:** 221841
- **Wikidata ID:** Q139385
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach_Roerig, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139385, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1813534/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/221841

Actor. Born 22 February 1985 in Montpelier, Ohio, United States.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 22 February 1985, Montpelier, Ohio, United States
- **Also known as:** Zachary Roerig, Zachary George Roerig
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach_Roerig, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139385, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1813534/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/221841

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Vampire Diaries*](https://film.one/tv/the-vampire-diaries.md) (71)

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## Biography

Zach Roerig is an American actor. He was born in Montpelier, Ohio, and attended the Barbizon Modeling and Acting School in Cleveland before moving to New York City to pursue acting after high school.

Roerig began his career with roles on daytime soaps, playing Casey Hughes on *As the World Turns* (2005–2007) and Hunter Atwood on *One Life to Live* (2007). He later appeared as Cash on *Friday Night Lights* (2008–2009).

He is best known for portraying Matt Donovan on *The Vampire Diaries* (2009–2017), reprising the role in spin-offs *The Originals* (2016) and *Legacies* (2018). Other credits include *Rings* (2017) and *The Last Full Measure* (2019).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Vampire Diaries* (2009), Fi1m 71, as Matt Donovan — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-vampire-diaries.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Bad Men Must Bleed* (2026), Actor
- *Boots* (2025), series, as Sgt. Knox
- *The Waterfront* (2025), series, as Troy
- *Day of Reckoning* (2025), as John Dorsey
- *Savage* (2025), series, Actor
- *Love in the Great Smoky Mountains: A National Park Romance* (2023), as Rob
- *A Christmas to Savour* (2021), as James Guidry
- *Dare Me* (2019), series, as Will Mosley
- *The Last Full Measure* (2019), as Young Ray Mott
- *Legacies* (2018), series, as Matt Donovan
- *God Friended Me* (2018), series, as Aiden
- *The Outer Wild* (2018), as Laird
- *The Year of Spectacular Men* (2018), as Mikey
- *The Gifted* (2017), series, as Pulse
- *Rings* (2017), as Carter
- *Field of Lost Shoes* (2015), as Jack Stanard
- *The Originals* (2013), series, as Matt Donovan
- *The Vampire Diaries* (2009), series, as Matt Donovan — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-vampire-diaries.md)
- *Official Selection* (2008), as The American Soldier
- *Dear Me* (2008), as Adam
- *Assassination of a High School President* (2008), as Matt Mullen
- *Tie a Yellow Ribbon* (2007), as Teenage Joe Mason
- *Friday Night Lights* (2006), series, as Cash — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/friday-night-lights.md)
- *Reba* (2001), series, as Man at wedding
- *Law & Order* (1990), series, as Rollerblade Messenger — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)
- *Undertow*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Zach Roerig](https://film.one/media/person/1298548/gallery-4dc572db01a3.jpg) Zach Roerig — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Zach_Roerig_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Zach_Roerig_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![David Anders & Zach Roerig (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/1298548/gallery-339eb58fc94a.jpg) David Anders & Zach Roerig (2011) — vagueonthehow from Tadcaster, York, England, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/David_Anders_%26_Zach_Roerig_%285809462013%29.jpg/1280px-David_Anders_%26_Zach_Roerig_%285809462013%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![David Anders & Zach Roerig (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/1298548/gallery-bd5cbcd2487c.jpg) David Anders & Zach Roerig (2011) — vagueonthehow from Tadcaster, York, England, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/David_Anders_%26_Zach_Roerig_%285809463881%29.jpg/1280px-David_Anders_%26_Zach_Roerig_%285809463881%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![David Anders & Zach Roerig (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/1298548/gallery-85e05d04ee9b.jpg) David Anders & Zach Roerig (2011) — vagueonthehow from Tadcaster, York, England, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/David_Anders_%26_Zach_Roerig_%285809465455%29.jpg/1280px-David_Anders_%26_Zach_Roerig_%285809465455%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Zach Roerig](https://film.one/media/person/1298548/gallery-a89318ce6ad4.jpg) Zach Roerig — Image via TMDB
- ![Zach Roerig](https://film.one/media/person/1298548/gallery-b47f89990083.jpg) Zach Roerig — Image via TMDB
- ![Zach Roerig](https://film.one/media/person/1298548/gallery-ed64c20a68f3.jpg) Zach Roerig — Image via TMDB
- ![David Anders & Zach Roerig (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/1298548/gallery-9396fc2495a7.jpg) David Anders & Zach Roerig (2011) — vagueonthehow from Tadcaster, York, England, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/David_Anders_%26_Zach_Roerig_%285809470351%29.jpg/1280px-David_Anders_%26_Zach_Roerig_%285809470351%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![David Anders & Zach Roerig (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/1298548/gallery-5bf5635afc6e.jpg) David Anders & Zach Roerig (2011) — vagueonthehow from Tadcaster, York, England, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/David_Anders_%26_Zach_Roerig_%285809471195%29.jpg/1280px-David_Anders_%26_Zach_Roerig_%285809471195%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Zach Roerig](https://film.one/media/person/1298548/gallery-5efde470ab4f.jpg) Zach Roerig — Image via TMDB
- ![Zach Roerig](https://film.one/media/person/1298548/gallery-f12a56a546b8.jpg) Zach Roerig — Image via TMDB
- ![Zach Roerig](https://film.one/media/person/1298548/gallery-37bc922c159d.jpg) Zach Roerig — Image via TMDB

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