Tony Curran: life and career

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Tony Curran is a Scottish actor, best known for his roles in Doctor Who and Roots, as well as in Underworld: Evolution.

Early life

Anthony "Tony" Curran was born December 13, 1969 in Glasgow. He is a graduate of the Catholic school Holyrood Secondary School, as well as the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

Career

Fame began to come to Tony after filming in the BBC television series "This Life". Since then, the Scottish actor has appeared in a variety of TV series and films.

Tony Curran played The Invisible Man in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. To portray the Invisible Man, he wore a special suit that turned him into a walking blue screen. Curran himself says that in this costume he looked like a "smurf on LSD". During his career, the actor also had to play vampires: Priest in Guillermo del Toro's Blade 2 and Marcus Cornus in Len Wiseman's Underworld: Evolution.

In the critically acclaimed series "Special Forces Elite", Tony performedthe role of Sergeant Pete Twomley. The series has become one of the most watched television shows in the world and has been broadcast in over 100 countries. At the beginning of the third season, Curran's character was killed off, and in 2005 the actor had to leave the series. Ross Kemp, who played the lead role of Sergeant Hanno Garvey, says: "It upsets me that most of the characters from the original cast of the series were killed off. People I've worked with for several years. But what can we do, we need to move on."

In 2006, Curran appeared in the film "Red Road" and in the same year shared with fans the news that he would play the role of Lieutenant Delcourt in Steven Spielberg's "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn", which was subsequently released in 2011 He also played Van Gogh in two episodes of the hit British series Doctor Who.

As for the list of villains, today it includes the roles of a Russian mafioso in the series "24", an insidious alien in the sci-fi series "The Challenge", an associate of Moriarty, a sworn enemy of Sherlock Holmes, in the series " Elementary" and the vampire elder in the film "Underworld: Evolution".

In addition to numerous roles in film and television, Curran has a background in the video game industry. He voiced the character Captain MacMillan in the 2011 video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

In 2016, Tony signed a contract for one of the few leading roles in his career in the Britishtelevision series "Reckless".

Private life

Tony Curran decided to move to Los Angeles only in 2004. It was a spontaneous decision, which later turned out to be very successful both in a career and personally. In 2008, at a party, Tony meets actress May Nguyen, and four years later they began to live in a legal marriage. The couple now has a four-year-old daughter.

The actor has a hobby. Tony loves football and once played as a right midfielder for The Waxers in London. This is one of the options for his self-realization.

Among other things, Karren actively participates in charity marathons. He is also a regular at Friends' annual Scottish Week events in New York.