Calahan Skogman

Calahan Wade Skogman (born May 12, 1993) is an American actor and former collegiate basketball and football player. He played Matthias Helvar in the Netflix series Shadow and Bone (2021–2023).

Life and career
Skogman was born in Green Bay to parents Wade and Stefani, and moved to Seymour, Wisconsin as a child. He is of Swedish, English, and German descent on his father's side and Italian and Hungarian on his mother's. He has a younger brother, Clayton. His great uncle is the Budapest-born artist Steven Kemenyffy.

Having played basketball "since I could walk", Skogman earned four titles in basketball and football at Seymour Community High School and was recruited to the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association All-State team as a junior and senior. He had ambitions to join the NBA. In his final year of high school, Skogman was accepted early to the University of Minnesota Duluth. He studied history and played NCAA Division II basketball and football, earning a letter in both sports.

After freshman year, Skogman transferred to the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse where he earned an All-WIAC First Team Honor. He began his studies in Broadcasting and hosted a sports radio show CWSports: The Handle on the campus station RAQ Radio. However, he landed the main role in a production of The Metal Heart, took up acting, and eventually decided to switch his major to Theatre Performance, graduating in 2015.

He moved to Los Angeles and went on to obtain a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from the USC School of Dramatic Arts in 2019.

In December 2019, it was announced that Skogman would play Matthias Helvar in the 2021 Netflix series Shadow and Bone, an adaptation of the fantasy book series The Grisha Trilogy and the Six of Crows duology by Leigh Bardugo. A recurring character in season 1, Skogman was promoted to series regular for season 2. The series was cancelled by Netflix after its second season, with a petition having reached more than 200,000 signatures asking Netflix to save it.