Kevin Andrew Ketcham was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota , he is of Scandinavian (Swedish, Norwegian) decent. Shortly after birth his family moved Memphis, TN where he was raised and started acting at age 14 while attending the fine arts high school Germantown. He trained and studied fro 4 years under the watchful eyes of Frank Bluestein (USA Today top 40 teacher, and Mcdonalds teacher of the year), as well as Russian Award winning producer/director Leonid Mazor .