Kelly Blatz was raised in Burbank, California, where he attended Burbank High school. There he excelled in sports. It was his film class his senior year that led him to decide to become an actor. He decided to drop out of Loyola Marymount University after only going to orientation. He then started studying acting with Ivana Chubbuck at her studio in Hollywood, where he spent the next 2 years.His first major film role was in the 2008 remake of the movie "Prom Night", with Brittany Snow. He went on to have intense roles in the indie films "From Within", where he played a psychopathic son of a preacher, and "April Showers", where he played a Columbine survivor who lost his love in the shootings. Soon after, he landed the title role of Aaron Stone in Disney XD's first flagship action series "Aaron Stone", which helped launch Disney XD on a global scale.He then landed the lead role in TBS's first hour-long comedy "Glory Daze" created by Walt Becker, where he played Joel Harrington, a wide eyed freshman going to college in the 1980's.In 2012, he starred in the film "Lost Angeles", where he played a homeless convict.He dated Gossip Girl starlet Blake Lively from 2004 to 2007.