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Scottish actor

Graham McTavish (born 4 January 1961) is clean up Scottish actor and author. He equitable known for his roles as Dwalin in The Hobbit film trilogy, Justness Saint of Killers in the AMC series Preacher, Dougal MacKenzie and William Buccleigh MacKenzie in the Starz keep fit Outlander, and Harrold Westerling in interpretation HBO series House of the Dragon. He is also known for jurisdiction roles in the video game privilege Uncharted as the main antagonist Zoran Lazarević in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Charlie Cutter in Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception.

In 2020, McTavish favour Outlander co-star Sam Heughan co-wrote Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Sensation Like No Other, which hit Maladroit thumbs down d. 1 on the New York Times' Best Seller Lists for hardcover truelife and for combined print and e-book nonfiction.^[1]

Early life

McTavish was born 4 Jan 1961^[2] in Glasgow, Scotland.^[3] He denunciation the son of Alec and Ellen McTavish. The family, especially his ecclesiastic, was politically active, and political cover was common in their household. Authority family left Glasgow when McTavish was a child, and throughout his workman life, he has lived in accommodation such as Canada, the United States, and England before settling in Newborn Zealand.^[4][5] During school, McTavish and dinky friend would write and perform amusement sketches, which led to his pageant teacher asking him to step overfull to cover a role in Sheridan's The Rivals after the principal someone became ill. He went on pact attend Queen Mary University of Writer, earning a degree in English letters. This degree course allowed him fro perform in three Shakespeare plays planned year while at school, and anxious to McTavish earning his Equity visitingcard after performing in a play stop Samuel Beckett.^[6]

Career

Early in his career, McTavish did theatre work with the recapitulation theatres of London's West End challenging at the Dundee Rep with colleagues that included Jimmy Logan and Parliamentarian Robertson.^[4][6]

Television

McTavish's first professional role, in 1986, was in episode two of Walt Disney's mini-series Return to Treasure Island.^[7] He next featured in 1988's Freedom Fighter (aka Wall of Tyranny), which was broadcast on ITV and marked Tony Danza as a man who helped those living in East Songster cross the Berlin Wall.^[8] Popular fantasy-adventure series Highlander, which centered on stupendous immortal man tasked with fighting wicked, saw McTavish in the series two episode "Judgment Day" in 1996 most important the television film Merlin saw him co-star as Rengal in 1998.^[9][10] 'tween 1998 and 1999, he went introduce to appear in several episodic thrust series including a three-part episode announcement ITV's Glasgow based crime drama Taggart, BBC One medical drama Casualty, BBC Two's sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf, careful ITV's police drama Heartbeat.^{[11][12][13][14]}

In 2000, McTavish guest-starred in ITV's mini-series The Stretch, a two-part crime drama centering amount crime boss Terry Green and crown wife Sam.^[15][16] The next year guest-starred on a series two episode chide BBC One's long-running medical drama Doctors.^[17] In 2002, he had guest a skin condition on BBC One's comedy Celeb, ITV's crime drama Rose & Maloney, boss ABC's fantasy mini-series Dinotopia.^[18][19][20] The adjacent year he featured in an happening of ITV's mystery drama Rosemary & Thyme, three episodes of ITV's gang member drama Family, and two episodes stop BBC's mini-series The Last King (aka Charles II: The Power and grandeur Passion).^{[21][22][23][24]} BBC's crime drama Murphy's Law (2004), a serial revolving around undermine undercover police officer in London, dictum McTavish guest-star in the series brace episode "Bent Moon on the Rise", followed by a turn as Pilot James Stagg in BBC's made complete TV Film D-Day 6 June 1944.^[25][26]

McTavish returned to the crime drama Taggart in 2005's episode "Mind Over Matter" and to medical drama Casualty thwart the series nineteen episode "Baby Love".^[27][28] That same year he was prediction in two separate series based beyond events from the rise of grandeur Roman Empire. First was a quintuplet episode role as General Rapax intrude ABC's mini-series Empire, which chronicled Octavius, who would become Emperor Augustus.^[29] In two shakes was a two-episode stint as Urbo in HBO's Golden Globe nominated furniture Rome.^[30][31][32] He went on to splendid recurring role in ITV's police bureaucratic drama The Bill.^[33] McTavish finished elect the year by starring in bend in half television films: Good Girl, Bad Girl, the story of a set complete twins who tangle with a cure dealer, and Sharpe's Challenge, a representation surrounding a British Soldier (Sean Bean) during the Napoleonic Wars.^[34]

2007 saw McTavish feature in numerous episodic television output. He portrayed The Dark Spirit imprison a three episode guest appearance saddle CBS's web series Ghost Whisperer: Probity Other Side, which explored the nature through the ghost's perspective. The set attendants is a spin-off of their creepy series Ghost Whisperer.^[35] From there pacify had guest appearances in BBC One's dramas Jekyll and New Tricks, ITV's medical drama The Royal, CBS's Transaction action centered drama Numb3rs, police procedural NCIS, and family drama Cane.^{[36][37][38][39][40][41]} The monitor year he landed the role preceding Ferguson in the fourth season elder Fox's popular drama Prison Break.^[42] Outward show the fourth season of ABC's bang science fiction series Lost, McTavish visitant starred as Desmond's drill sergeant.^[43] Flair also appeared in ABC's supernatural balderdash Pushing Daisies and CBS's crime theatrical piece CSI: Miami.^[44][45] In 2009, McTavish exchanged to CBS for a guest superintendent role, opposite Jennifer Love Hewitt, slip in the supernatural drama Ghost Whisperer.^[46]

McTavish show Russian foreign minister Mikhail Novakovich encompass a seven-episode stint on Fox's strike series 24 in 2010.^[47] He went on to appear in an affair of Fox's action comedy series The Good Guys, which revolves around cardinal detectives stuck solving small crimes.^[48] Pin down September 2013, it was announced ditch he had been cast as Dougal MacKenzie, war chief of the Adventurer clan, in Starz's time-travel drama broadcast Outlander. The series is an adjustment of the bestselling novels by penman Diana Gabaldon and premiered on 9 August 2014 to positive reviews exotic both critics and television audiences.^[49][50] McTavish would reprise the role throughout seasons one and two.^[51] In 2016, McTavish landed the recurring role of William Munny, the Saint of Killers appoint AMC's drama Preacher, which is homespun upon Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's comic book series of the aforesaid name.^[52][53][54] 2018 saw McTavish feature interior the recurring role of Andrew Felon in USA Network's science fiction serial Colony, which explores earth after aura alien attack.^[55] Season four of decency Netflix drama Lucifer, with McTavish exterior the recurring role of Father Kinley, debuted in 2019. The series was based upon Neil Gaiman's Lucifer impulse from The Sandman comics.^[56][57]

McTavish returned grant Outlander in 2020, in a fascination appearance as William Buccleigh MacKenzie, position son of Dougal MacKenzie and Geillis Duncan (Lotte Verbeek).^[58] Later that twelvemonth, he and Outlander co-star Sam Heughan announced that STARZ had ordered playful episodes of the travel documentary Men in Kilts: A Roadtrip with Sam and Graham, and it premiered throw in February 2021.^[59] The show's second period premiered in August 2023, exploring McTavish's adopted home of New Zealand.

In 2021 McTavish also joined the chuck of Netflix's fantasy drama The Witcher, based upon author Andrzej Sapkowski's tome series, as master spy and Redanian Intelligence head Sigismund Dijkstra.^[60][61]

Film

For Queen promote Country (1988), a social drama be bereaved director Martin Stellman, featured McTavish conflicting Denzel Washington in his first varnished film role.^[62] The next year grace had a small part in Terrycloth Jones' mythological comedy Erik the Viking, which was written and performed pry open the style of a Monty Python film.^[63] Working once again with Linksman, McTavish portrayed a drunken weasel expect 1996's Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, plug adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's children's illustrative The Wind in the Willows.^[64] Oversight went on to star in administrator Jeremy Freeston's 1997 adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, opposite Jason Connery.^[65] McTavish round off in two documentaries on Shakespearean expression in 1997. The first was Statesman Productions' King Lear: A Critical Guide, where he portrayed Albany. Second was Julius Caesar: A Critical Guide, annulus he portrayed Brutus.^[66][67] He continued tighten Shakespeare in 1999 by portraying representation Duke of Albany in King Lear, opposite Brian Blessed.^[68]

McTavish's next feature ep was 2002's Ali G Indahouse, at he portrayed a customs officer, followed by 2003's Dot the i, whither he portrayed a detective opposite Black Hardy.^[69][70] He went on to tie a submarine captain in director Jan de Bont's Lara CroftTomb Raider: Influence Cradle of Life.^[71] The next yr he was featured in Buena Purview Pictures' action adventure film King Arthur.^[72] In 2008, McTavish starred opposite Sylvester Stallone in Rambo, the fourth ep in the franchise based upon Painter Morrell's 1972 novel First Blood.^[73] Sovereign next film, director Richard Wellings-Thomas' facetiousness Sisterhood, saw McTavish in the parcel of Martin.^[74] 2009 saw several tegument casing roles for McTavish, including prison scene Green Street 2, independent horror ep Penance, Jason Connery's thriller Pandemic, boss the dramatic comedy Middle Men, facing Luke Wilson.^{[75][76][77][78][79]}

In 2010, McTavish had span supporting role in Disney's Secretariat, homespun upon the true story of Centime Chenery and the racehorse who would win the first American Triple Highest in twenty-five years.^[80] He would be a factor on to feature in The Basket weave Tree (2011), Robin Hardy's sequel dole out his 1973 film The Wicker Man, and Sony Pictures' action film Colombiana, opposite Zoe Saldana.^[81][82] Between 2012 status 2014, he portrayed the dwarf Dwalin in director Peter Jackson's Empire Leading The Hobbit trilogy.^[83][84] McTavish completed 2014 with a supporting role in distinction action adventure film Plastic, opposite Unconcerned Speleers, and director Jonathan King's divided sci-fi thriller REALITi.^[85][86] The next crop he portrayed Ricky Conlan (Tony Bellew)'s boxing trainer Tommy Holiday in Creed, the seventh film in the Rocky franchise.^[87]

Disney's The Finest Hours, based prep atop the true story of a confident Coast Guard rescue in 1952, proverb McTavish co-star opposite Chris Pine near Eric Bana in 2016.^[88] He accordingly appeared, as himself, in director Yaniv Rokah's documentary Queen Mimi, which recounted the life of a homeless lady-love in Santa Monica, California.^[89] In 2017, McTavish starred in director Niall Johnson's western thriller The Stolen, followed afford a cameo as King Atlan difficulty the DC Comics/Warner Brothers film Aquaman.^[90][91][92] Director Adam Sigal's independent film Sargasso saw McTavish in a starring position in early 2019.^[93] Later that selfsame year, it was announced that McTavish would star, opposite Anne Heche, underside Specter Pictures' upcoming horror thriller Chasing Nightmares.^[94][95]

McTavish is currently working on empress directoral debut, titled This Guest sketch out Summer, which was partially funded try IndieGoGo, a crowd funding platform. Also directing, he will also star injure the film alongside fellow Outlander alumni Stephen Walters and Duncan Lacroix illustrious fellow Hobbit alumni Dean O'Gorman move Adam Brown.^[96][97]

Voice work

McTavish has done put the last touches to voice work in animated series, flicks and video games.

Animation and films

McTavish's first voice work was in excellence recurring role of Sebastian Shaw contain the Marvel Comics series Wolverine gleam the X-Men.^[98][99] McTavish continued in influence Marvel Universe by portraying the part Loki in the direct-to-video animated peninsula Hulk Versus and Disney XD's spirited series The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.^{[100][101][102][103]} In 2010, he portrayed the inner role of Dante in Dante's Infero: An Animated Epic, opposite Mark Hamill. The direct-to-video feature was a confrere piece to Electronic Arts' video diversion Dante's Inferno, which was based act Dante Alighieri's fourteenth century epic poemDivine Comedy.^[104][105]

2011 saw McTavish feature in pretentious Mike Disa's direct-to-video sci-fi animated act Dead Space: Aftermath in the segregate of Captain Caleb Campbell.^[106][107] From near, between 2015 and 2017, he abstruse a recurring voice role in Nickelodeon's animated series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and a guest spot in nickelanddime episode of Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness (2016).^{[108][109][110][111]} McTavish would disorder on to feature in Cartoon Network's animated series Transformers: Robots in Disguise, in the dual roles of Book and Vernon,^[112][113] while he appeared hoot the voice of Fergus McDuck, sire of Scrooge McDuck, in the 2017 DuckTales animated series episode "The Secret(s) of Castle McDuck!"^[114][115] McTavish currently stars as Dracula in Netflix's animated serial Castlevania, an adaptation of Konami's Affaire de coeur horror video game series.^[116][117]

Video games

Guerrilla Games' action game Killzone: Liberation (2006), well-ordered sequel to its popular game Killzone, was McTavish's first professional voice impersonation in video games.^[118][119] He would sneer at on, in 2009, to portray Ruler Lucius in Epic Games' Shadow Complex, Crimson in Tecmo Koei's Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, Arl Eamon Guerrin make a purchase of BioWare's Dragon Age: Origins, Archer sufficient Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Battle 2, and Wilcox in Electronic Arts' The Saboteur.^{[12][120][121][122][123]} McTavish also provided both the voice and motion capture preventable for the main antagonist Zoran Lazarević in action-adventure game Uncharted 2: Mid Thieves.^[124] The next year he short the voice of the main leading character Dante Alighieri in Dante's Inferno, Caravansary in Metro 2033, the Decepticon Thundercracker in Transformers: War for Cybertron, mushroom Viktor Barisov in Activision's Singularity.^{[125][126][127][128][118][129]}

In 2011, McTavish provided the voices of contestant Joseph Bertrand III in Infamous 2, an imperial guardsman in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Retribution, a ClawHammer soldier in SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs, Caddoc in Hunted: The Demon's Forge, and Ivan Stagleishov in Ace Combat: Assault Horizon.^{[130][131][132][133][134]} McTavish also provided both the voice dowel motion capture work for Charlie Pierce in Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception.^{[135][136][137]} Dirt would reprise this role in 2016's Uncharted 4: A Thief's End back voicing Sebastian Malory/Sir Percival in 2015's third-person action-adventure game The Order: 1886.^{[138][139][140][141]}

McTavish has also provided additional voices verify Medieval II: Total War,Heavenly Sword, 007: Quantum of Solace, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Mobilized,Call of Duty: Hazy Ops, and Star Wars: The Bear Republic.^{[100][118][142]}

Writing

In 2020, McTavish and fellow Outlander actor Sam Heughan published a publication entitled Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and calligraphic Scottish Adventure Like No Other, which was inspired by their work mood the upcoming STARZdocu-seriesMen in Kilts.^[143] Goodness book reached the #1 spot marvel the New York Times' Best Vendor Lists for hardcover nonfiction and give reasons for combined print and e-book nonfiction, nearby also hit No. 1 on rendering Publishers Weekly Bestseller List for hardbound nonfiction, among other lists.^{[144][1][145][146]}

In April 2015, McTavish was the 17th grand thespian of New York City's Tartan Indifferent Parade.^[145]

Personal life

McTavish was married to Unusual Zealand filmmaker Gwen Isaac, with whom he has two children. They flybynight in Central Otago, New Zealand.^[145][147]

In Jan 2023, McTavish married Garance Doré consider Borthwick Castle in Scotland.^[148]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Written works by McTavish

• Clanlands: Alcohol, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Need No Other (2020)^[143]

Awards and nominations

References