The first time I laid eyes on Paul Anthony Kelly, I could've sworn I'd seen him before. (Not just in my dreams.) The Love Story actor has that familiar type of Americana charm only replicated by the likes of Cary Grant and Kelly's breakout role, John F. Kennedy Jr. Turns out, fashion insiders are familiar with his face: While Kelly's new to the screen, he actually has almost two decades of modeling under his belt.
Getty Images only started crediting him as "Paul Anthony Kelly" and not "a model" last summer on the set of FX's Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and JFK Jr. biopic series. That's not to say he's completely absent from the photo agency's records—I just had to look a little harder. Kelly was "scouted" by two talent agents while working at an American Apparel on Queen Street East in Toronto. A contract with Ford Models—who represented Cindy Crawford and Brooke Shields in the '90s—secured him a spot on Vivienne Westwood's Spring 2014 Menswear runway. "I wore eyeliner and I was wearing the tightest jeans and pointy shoes I could find, and it was quite a look," Kelly told GQ this week. "And they saw past it.”
