Eric Winter

Eric Barrett Winter (born July 17, 1976) is an American actor and former fashion model. He is known for his television roles as Rex Brady on the NBC daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives and Dash Gardiner on the Lifetime fantasy-drama series Witches of East End.

Career

Before his acting roles, Winter was a male model and had some high-profile campaigns, such as one print campaign for Tommy Hilfiger. He appeared in a television commercial with Britney Spears for her fragrance, Curious.

Winter is played the role of Rex Brady on the daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives from July 8, 2002 until July 26, 2005. After leaving Days of our Lives, he had many small roles in television shows, such as CSI, Love, Inc., Charmed, and Just Legal. He guest-starred on ABC Family's Wildfire for five episodes. His character, R.J. Blake, a bull-rider who dated the character of Dani Davis (played by Nicole Tubiola), was killed in the episode "Heartless" which aired originally on February 28, 2007. Winter also appeared on The Parkers in the episode "The Boomerang Effect". Winter appeared in an episode of the CBS series The Ex-List, and a recurring role of Jason McCallister, the brother of Senator Robert McCallister (Rob Lowe) and love interest of Kevin Walker (Matthew Rhys) on the ABC drama Brothers & Sisters. He was a regular on the short-lived CBS series Viva Laughlin and Moonlight. Winter appears in the feature films Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) and The Ugly Truth (2009).

Eric Winter (illustrator)

Eric Winter (May 15, 1905 – 1981) was a children's illustrator, most notable for his contributions to Ladybird books. Before his work for Ladybird Books, he worked on commission, producing work for Eagle, Swift and Girl magazines.

Eric Winter was born in Edmonton, North London on May 15, 1905 and is perhaps best known for his contribution to some of the more popular Ladybird books, including such titles as Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel and The Princess and the Pea.

He had an older brother called Francis John and a younger sister called Irene. Francis and Eric were educated at Latymer Public School and this is where Eric first became interested in art.

He later studied at Hornsey Art School where he specialized in commercial and fine art and charcoal. He painted in both water colors and oils, but preferred the use of water colors.

Eric Winter

In order to provide for his family Eric had to take up commercial art and in the 1950s he was commissioned by Abbey National Building Society to design their logo, which became their famous trademark of two people sheltering under the roof of a house.