Born July 17, 1979 in Abington, PA, the young actor grew up in the town of Warminster, PA. In his early adulthood, Vogel spent a year commuting back and forth to New York City for acting and modeling auditions. By the end of that year, he had booked a recurring role on the hit Fox (then WB) series, "Grounded For Life" (2001-05), appearing in 14 episodes altogether, which lead him to move to Los Angeles. Not long after the move, the young actor was cast as Heath in MTV's musical version of "Wuthering Heights" (2003), alongside Erika Christensen and future "Grey's Anatomy" star, Katherine Heigl. Not only did the multi-talent star in the lead role, he also performed in musical numbers.
2003 was a good year for an actor just getting his feet wet. In addition to "Wuthering Heights," Vogel also appeared in "Grind," a film about four aspiring skateboarders and as Andy in the critically panned but high profile horror remake, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," co-starring Jessica Biel and Erica Leerhsen.
Vogel spent a good amount of 2004 shooting several films, all released in 2005 and all raising his industry profile bit by bit: As Eric in the hit teenybopper chic flick, "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants;" as Blake Burroughs in the misbegotten Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy, "Rumor Has It;" and as Trip Carlyle, one half of a motorcross team of two brothers in "Supercross."
In 2006, In addition, Vogel played a scruffy, British slacker in the edgy independent comedy "Caffeine." However, the film most likely to catapult the 5'10" hunk to the next level was the summer disaster epic, "Poseidon," a remake of the campy disaster flick, "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972). As Christian, Emmy Rossum's love interest, Vogel not only got to work with a first rate cast, including Kurt Russell and Richard Dreyfuss, but also be a part of his first large-scale summer blockbuster, full of special effects, stunts and hours logged in water tanks.