Tyler Hoechlin, who plays the brooding, blue-eyed quasi-villain of MTV’s smash hit Teen Wolf turned 25 yesterday.

Here are ten things you might not know about this howlin’ hottie:

1. He beat out 2000 other actors to get the role of Tom Hanks’s son in Road to Perdition.
2. Tyler played baseball from the time he was 7 until he was in college. Bet he looks great in those uniforms.
3. Tyler started acting at age 9 so that he and his brother could earn money to buy Sega Genesis games.
4. In an interview with Seventeen Magazine, he said his favorite chick flick is The Notebook.
5. Tyler was such a committed baseball player that he passed up the role of Edward Cullen so that he’d be available for a championship game.
6. Every time it’s time for him to wolf out, he spends two and a half hours in the make-up chair. While they were in the learning stages, it was closer to five hours.
7. Tyler has gotten quite a following in the slash and fanfic community. The favorite pairing? Derek and Stiles, referred to by many as “Sterek.”
8.  In 2004, Tyler was nominated for the Teen Choice Award for Breakout Male Star for his role on Seventh Heaven.
9. Before being cast in the MTV series, he had never seen the original Michael J. Fox Teen Wolf.
10. Tyler and the rest of the cast of Teen Wolf go bowling once a week.

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