Actor Daniel Lissing, who starred on Hallmark Channel’s When Calls the Heart, as Jack Thornton, for the show’s first five seasons. The Australian actor was a huge fan favorite and, in this new interview taken at Christmas Con 2025, shares what that means to him.
Key Takeaways
- Lissing starred as Jack Thornton on When Calls the Heart.
- Lissing has starred in multi-episode arcs on S.W.A.T. and The Rookie.
- Married Nadia Lissing in 2020 and the pair love to travel.
Acting Up
While Lissing is best known for When Calls The Heart, he has starred in a number of projects with some of your favorite soap alums. In 2015, he joined the cast of Eye Candy on MTV, as Detective Ben Miller, alongside Days of Our Lives alum Casey Deidrick (Chad), One Life To Live alum Ryan Cooper (Bruce), and As The World Turns’ Eric Sheffer Stevens (Reid).
From 2019 to 2021, he logged in four episodes of The Rookie as Sterling Freeman alongside Days’ alum Eric Winter (Rex) and OLTL alum Nathan Fillion (Joey). Lissing played Ty on 5 episodes of S.W.A.T. between 2018 and 2019, alongside The Young and the Restless alum Shemar Moore (Malcolm). Daniel was also a series regular on the ABC series Last Resort, starring as a Navy SEAL James King.
Lissing has also starred in multiple Hallmark films, including Single on the 25th, Santa Tell Me, and Christmas In Love. For the Great American Family Channel, he starred in Catering Christmas, Christmas Keepsake, and A Christmas Star.
The actor is married to Nadia Lissing, whom he met on vacation in 2018, and they got married in 2020. The pair loves to travel and are the parents to Oscar, a King Charles Cavalier.
