Bryan Dechart is an American film and television actor. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and raised outside Detroit, Michigan. He graduated with honors from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Acting. He studied at the Sanford Meisner Extension, the Experimental Theater Wing, the Viewpoints Studio, and Stonestreet Studios for Film and Television, and trained in Commedia dell'arte in Florence, Italy.[1]He is best known for his role as Eli Chandler on ABC Family's Jane