Randy Wayne

Randy Wayne Frederick (born August 7, 1981) is an American actor. Born Randy Wayne Frederick, Randy Wayne was born and raised in Moore, Oklahoma. He attended Moore High School and Campbellsville University.

Career

He appeared on the 2002 season of the British reality show Shipwrecked, which led to guest appearances on the television shows The Closer, Huff, NCIS, Jack & Bobby, and Numb3rs as well as a series regular role as the not-so-bright teenager Jeff Fenton on the 2006 ABC sitcom Sons & Daughters. In 2006, Wayne starred as Robbie Zirpollo in the movie The Surfer King.

He is most famous for his portrayal of Luke Duke in the movie The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning. Since then he has starred in numerous independent features including the gay-themed drama Dream Boy, Grizzly Park, and Foreign Exchange. He also portrayed Michael in The Haunting of Molly Hartley, The Last Hurrah, and Ghost Town (a 2009 Syfy Channel horror film, not to be confused with the 2008 Ricky Gervais film of the same name). He starred in the lead role of Jake Taylor in To Save a Life, which was released to theaters on January 22, 2010. Wayne also starred as Duffy in the movie Frat Party.

Randy Wayne (biologist)

Randy O. Wayne is a plant cell biologist at Cornell University notable for his work on plant development. In particular, along with his colleague P. K. Hepler, Wayne established the powerful role of calcium in regulating plant growth; accordingly, his 1985 article Calcium and plant development was cited by at least 405 subsequent articles to earn the coveted "Citation Classic" award from Current Contents magazine and has been cited by hundreds more since 1993. He is an acknowledged authority on how plant cells sense gravity through pressure, on the water permeability of plant membranes,light microscopy, as well as the effects of calcium on plant development. He wrote two textbooks including Plant Cell Biology: From Astronomy to Zoology and Light and Video Microscopy. In 2010, he proposed a theory of light which contradicts relativity.

Selected works