He is best known for his high-profile Calvin Klein campaign and for co-starring with Patrick Swayze in TV series The Beast shortly before Swayze’s death. He was named one of the world’s sexiest bachelors by America’s People magazine in 2002 and at the time was regarded as “the most in-demand male model in the world”. He also made a cameo appearance in the bar scene of a video clip for Janet Jackson’s “Someone to Call My Lover” and played a hunk loading hay onto the back of a pick-up truck in Jennifer Lopez’s “I’m Real” (not to be confused with her song of the same name featuring rapper Ja Rule). Preferring to be known for his acting rather than his modelling, Fimmel turned down an offer from Australia’s Seven Network to be a guest judge on the TV series Make Me A Supermodel. Fimmel’s TV profile received a boost when he starred opposite Patrick Swayze in cable network A&E’s 2009 series, The Beast (screened in Australia on ABC2).