A Beautiful Mind

Criminal Minds’ Daniel Henney shares his thoughts with Watch!

- Brantley Bardin

“I WAS CONSTANTLY PUT up on a table and asked to sing Bob Seger’s ‘Old Time Rock and Roll,’ ” laughs Criminal Minds star Daniel Henney about entertaining his family in Carson City, Michigan. Even from a young age, the high school basketball champ of South Korean and Irish heritage knew performance was his destiny.

In 2001, a radio ad seeking models caught his attention, and in a flash, the 6´2 Henney was in front of the cameras. In 2005, his acting career blasted off in South Korea, where he became—and remains— a household name and heartthrob on TV and in film; he flies to the country monthly to oversee his own production company there. And the entire world knows him now, thanks to his starring roles in the international smash hit X-Men Origins: Wolverine and the Oscar-winning Big Hero 6.

Henney, 39, is currently well into his second season of Criminal Minds as FBI Special Agent Matt Simmons after having portrayed the ultra buff behavioral analyst for two years previously on Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders. What has Simmons taught him?