Josh Holloway had acted before "Lost" — he'd been on one-off episodes of shows like "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" and "Walker, Texas Ranger" — but it was his role as James "Sawyer" Ford on the instant-smash plane-crash drama that made him a star. Sawyer was a bad boy you loved to root for, a long-haired, sweaty con man with a Southern drawl worth swooning over. Over six seasons on ABC, after Sawyer survived the crash of Oceanic Flight 815 that stranded him on a mysterious island, fans watched Sawyer find love and lose it, try to escape on a raft, get blown up, shot at, stabbed, slapped, and more.

"They've thrown everything at me," Holloway reflected to Vanity Fair as the series drew to a close. "As an actor, to be able to experiment and grow and be pushed, it's been phenomenal for me

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