He has also been twice nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor, winning in 1983 for his performance in A Night in Heaven. RecognitionĪtkins was nominated for a Golden Globe Awards for New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture – Male for The Blue Lagoon as well as Best Young Actor for the Young Artist Awards. He owns an outdoor sports company and has patented a fishing lure. Personal lifeĪtkins married Lynne Barron Weber, of Sydney, Australia on the couple had two children, a son, Grant Bomann (born 10 December 1985) and a daughter, Brittney Bomann (born ). In 2009, he appeared on VH1's Confessions of a Teen Idol, a reality show in featuring former teen idols. In 2007, he starred in the direct-to-DVD sci-fi movie 100 Million BC. Comic roles include Mortuary Academy (1988), Shoot (1992) and he reunited with Shields on her series Suddenly Susan as a fellow journalist who is uninterested in her. Other projects includef Caved In, Spiritual Warriors, 13th Child, The Employee of the Month, Tequila Express, Quigley and True Legends of the West. In the 1990s and 2000s, he appeared in the made-for-network and cable movies Fatal Charms, Project Shadowchaser III and Angel Flight Dawn. For one season (1983–1984), Atkins had a recurring role as camp counselor Peter Richards on the CBS prime time soap opera Dallas in which his character has an affair with Sue Ellen Ewing.Ītkins has been the cover boy of many teen magazines and has appeared in several television commercials representing Coke and Adidas. In A Night in Heaven (1983), also starring Lesley Ann Warren, Atkins played Rick Monroe, an outspoken and overconfident student working his way through college as a male stripper. From that movie, he sang "How Can I Live Without Her" which peaked at #71 on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 1982. He went on to star with Kristy McNichol in The Pirate Movie (1982), an update of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta The Pirates of Penzance. The film grossed over $58 million with a production cost of $4.5 million. In the film, he and co-star Brooke Shields played two teenage cousins who have lived alone together since they were marooned as children in a tropical paradise, eventually falling in love. He had no previous interest or experience in acting, but an agent he knew persuaded him to audition for The Blue Lagoon, a role he won over 2,000 other actors. ![]() In high school, he was a lifeguard and sailing instructor, where he was discovered for The Blue Lagoon. Atkins was born in Rye, New York, to German Americans Donald Bomann and Bitsy Nebauer.
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