Sean Kanan

Actor, writer, author, comedian, and Emmy® award-winning producer Sean Kanan’s first role in Hollywood was bad-boy “Mike Barnes” in the blockbuster franchise film Karate Kid III.  In 2022 Kanan reprised his iconic role, receiving critical acclaim in the pop-culture hit series’ fifth and sixth seasons of Cobra Kai, now streaming on Netflix.

Kanan simultaneously appears once again as a bad boy with a heart of gold, ‘Deacon Sharpe’, on the world’s most-watched daytime drama, CBS’s The Bold and the Beautiful, and has portrayed the same role on its sister show, The Young and the Restless. Kanan previously played ‘AJ Quartermaine’ on ABC’s General Hospital. His other recent credits include two 2021 films with Bruce Willis, Survive the Game and The Fortress, and Lifetime’s Sinister Society.

In 2021, Kanan won the Daytime Emmy® award for Outstanding Limited Series as the Executive Producer and Creator of Studio City (Amazon Prime), for which he was also Emmy® nominated in the categories of Outstanding Lead Actor and Outstanding Writing Team.  Kanan previously won the Indie Series Award for Outstanding Lead Actor for portraying Studio City protagonist ‘Sam Stephens’.

Kanan has previously authored four books.  His first book, The Modern Gentleman: Cooking and Entertaining with Sean Kanan, received rave reviews. His second, Success Factor X, became an Amazon New Release Best Seller after less than one week and was named one of the twenty most inspirational books in the last two decades by Book Authority.

Kanan’s third and fourth books are part of a series which include Way of the Cobra (WOTC) with the theme of “Transform yourself, and you can transform the world” and Welcome to the Kumite which draws on intimate, personal stories to illustrate his strategies and philosophy for achieving success.  Currently being added to this literary series is Way of the Cobra Couples, co-written by his wife, Michele Kanan. This book focuses on relationships and communication.