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Hursley was born in Austin, Texas. His father, Greg Hursley, is an architectural photographer and his mother Kelle is a nurse
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His great-grandfather is Frank M. Hursley, co-creator of General Hospital, the longest running television soap opera. Hursley began his entertainment career after participating in the Schick "Groove n" Smooth" national talent search in 1999. He became well known in Austin nightlife scene as Karaoke Joe, going on to perform over five-hundred shows the next few years.
His task was to play an obnoxious "friend" for 48 hours, while contestants had to prove their friendship in front of real friends and loved ones for a prize of $15,000.
Hursley was increasingly sinister as the series progressed. After the show, Hursley joined Kutcher on Punk"d, where he pranked various celebrities.
He then appeared in major films including Accepted, Resident Evil: Extinction and Fast and Furious, which led him to his first starring feature role with cult director Penelope Spheeris in Balls to the Wall (2011). Hursley appeared in the 2013 action/fantasy/horror short "Sequence", which was internationally recognized at festivals worldwide, which included a nod for Best Actor (Short Shorts Film Festival Japan 2014), and winning overall Best Short at the Los Angeles Shorts Fest (2013).
In The Origins of Wit and Humor he played Les Candalero, a Woody Allen-esque outsider.
In the upcoming indie feature "Foreign All Eyes Always", he plays Thomas Devlin, a Central Intelligence Agency operative starring in a government sanctioned reality television show for the American public. by the Indians was featured in the 2012 film Rites of Passage, and the television shows Top Gear, and Music Television"s Catfish.
