10 Things You Didn’t Know About Vikings' Travis Fimmel

9. He Prefers To Be Known For His Acting Rather Than His Modelling

In 2008 when he was asked to be a judge on Australia€™s Make Me A Supermodel, Travis turned it down to focus on his acting career instead, and who could blame him? If he didn't make that move he'd probably still be judging models, and the world would have been deprived of his turn on Vikings. Since then, he€™s starred in the A&E series The Beast alongside Patrick Swayze, NBC€™s Case, The WB€™s Tarzan, the Fox movie Southern Comfort, Surfer Dude with Matthew McConaughey, Warner Brothers€™ Pure Country 2: The Gift, The Baytown Outlaws, The Big Valley with American Horror Story star Jessica Lange, The Experiment with Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker and many more before finally landing his role in Vikings in 2013.