Tanner Novlan plays John Finn Finnegan in B&B (Image via Instagram/tannernovlan)

Canadian actor Tanner Novlan plays Dr. John Finnegan, popularly known as Finn, on The Bold and the Beautiful, the CBS soap opera. He joined the soap in 2020 and has held center stage many times since. The actor, a father of two, is married to a former soap actor, Kayla Ewell.

Regular viewers of The Bold and the Beautiful know Tanner Novlan’s Finn has been characterized as a morally straight person and a loyal husband, father, and son. Finn’s “good son” repute extended to his biological mother, Sheila, who had shot him and tried to harm his wife.

However, his current crisis caused him to seek advice from his adoptive mother, Li, rather than Sheila. The current plot dynamics revolve around Hope kissing him while his wife, Steffy, is held hostage by Luna, the secret criminal. Finn has more action in store in the upcoming episodes of The Bold and the Beautiful as he tries to rescue his wife from the clutches of a murderess.

Hockey player and four other snippets about Tanner Novlan of The Bold and the Beautiful

1) Tanner Novlan grew up on a Canadian farm

Tanner Novlan hails from Canada (Image via Instagram/tannernovlan)

Tanner Novlan, who plays Doctor Finn on The Bold and the Beautiful, was born in April 1986 in Alberta, Canada, and raised in the village of Paradise Hill in Saskatchewan.

Tanner’s father, Doug Novlan, had a farm in Canada, where he grew up, while his mother lived in California. As the eldest of three siblings, the 38-year-old was close to his grandfather when young.

2) Tanner is a hockey and basketball enthusiast and player

Tanner has been a hockey player for years (Image via Instagram/tannernovlan)
Being raised on a farm, Tanner has always enjoyed an athletic build. He was known to be already driving the family’s heavy combine harvester at the age of 12. The actor was an active hockey player before he left Canada. He continues to play hockey for “Bad Boys Skate,” an informal group of hockey enthusiasts in Los Angeles.

He is also proficient in water skiing and basketball. He also plays golf. After arriving in the United States to start his acting career, Tanner started working for a construction company to support his acting classes.

3) Tanner rehearses his The Bold and the Beautiful lines in his car

Tanner claims to rehearse in his car (Image via Instagram/tannernovlan)

In an interesting interview with The Mirror in April 2024, Tanner revealed that he practices dialogues inside his car parked in his driveway. He believes that this way, he has fewer distractions from the kids in the house. Moreover, his practice would not affect the household. Also, he can use his voice to its full potential in his car.

However, the actor’s hilarious take on his habit is that his neighbors think he has been thrown out of the house, and he is contemplating divorce.

4) Tanner has seven movies, a music video, and commercials under his belt

The commercial that made Tanner famous (Image via Instagram/tannernovlan)
While The Bold and the Beautiful fans may know him as Finn, the actor has been part of many other series, which include Bones, Mohawk Girls, Modern Family, and Roswell, New Mexico. He was part of the 2010 music video for the Australian band Sick Puppies, titled Maybe. His most famous role has been for a Liberty Mutual commercial where he portrayed a “bad actor.”

Tanner has been part of seven movies extending across genres, from science fiction and comedy to sports and horror. His performance in the comedy-drama Flatbush Luck earned him two Best Actor nominations. The last film he was seen in was a 2022 Hallmark Channel movie for television titled Christmas Class Reunion.

5) Married to former The Bold and the Beautiful actor, Tanner is a father of two kids

Tanner has a wife and two kids in his family (Image via Instagram/tannernovlan)
Tanner met his wife Kayla Ewell at the shoot for the music video, Maybe. The duo married in 2015 and had their first child, daughter Poppy Marie, in July 2019. In June 2022, they had Jones, their second child.

His wife, Kayla, was part of The Bold and the Beautiful long before Tanner joined the cast of the daily soap. Kayla played Caitlin Ramirez, an intern at Forrester Creations, between 2004 and 2005. She was paired with both Thomas and Rick and was shown to work with her mother, Samantha. Later, she exited the soap as the story arc took Caitlin and Samantha away from LA.