Billy Zane
Billy Zane was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States on February 24th, 1966 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 58, Billy Zane biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
At 58 years old, Billy Zane has this physical status:
William George Zane Jr. (born February 24, 1966) is an American actor, painter, and producer.
Caledon Hockley's role in the epic romantic tragedy film Titanic (1997) is his most well-known.
Back to the Future (1985) and its sequel Back to the Future Part II (1989), Dead Calm (1991), Demon Knight (1993), and Kingdom Hearts (1996).
Early life
Zane was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Thalia and William George Zane Sr., both of whom were professional actors and educators of a medical technician academy. Both his parents are of Greek descent (from Chios through his father and Mani), and his family's original surname, "Zanetakos," was anglicized to "Zane" by his parents, who also raised him in the Greek Orthodox faith. Lisa Zane, an actor and singer, has an older sister.
Zane graduated from Francis W. Parker School in Switzerland and attended Harand Camp of the Theater Arts, located in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, after spending a year abroad in Switzerland (TASIS).
Personal life
Zane was married to actress Lisa Collins from 1989 to 1995. Leonor Varela, the Chilean actress who co-starred in the 1999 television film Cleopatra (1999), was also engaged for a time.
Zane was later engaged to marry British model-turned-actress Kelly Brook, whom he met when they co-starred in the film Survival Island (2005), also known as Three. They broke up in April 2008, got back together shortly after, and then ended the friendship in August 2008. Zane dated Croatian model Jasmina Hdagha in 2010, but the couple died later this year.
Candice Neil, the father of his two children and to whom he is also attached, was introduced through a friend. Ava Catherine, their first child, was born in 2011, and Gia, their second daughter, was born in 2014.
Zane rode in the first Gumball 3000 rally in 1999, driving a 1964 Aston Martin DB5.
Zane is also an abstract expressionism painter. He has had numerous solo and group shows.
Career
Zane's first two screen appearances were in the science fiction films Back to the Future in 1985 and Critters in 1986, about the same time he appeared in the music videos for Sheena Easton's "Do It For Love" and "Magic of Love." She Wrote: She Wrote: A Very Good Year for Murder in 1988. He appeared Tony Gambini with Jessica Fletcher in Murder. Zane appeared in a Matlock episode titled "The Nurse." In 1989, he reprised his henchman role in Back to the Future Part II. Zane gained international fame for his role as Hughie Warriner in the film Dead Calm, alongside Nicole Kidman and Sam Neill earlier this year. He appeared in the NBC film The Case of the Hillside Stranglers (1989), and Adam Sandler's "no budget" debut Going Overboard (1989), which was not available to a wider audience until 1996.
Zane's first appearance was in a 1990 independent film, the low budget science fiction thriller Megaville. In 1990, he appeared in the film Memphis Belle, a film adaptation of a 1944 film about a World War II Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber as the bombardier. Zane has since ventured into television, and in 1991, he appeared as John Justice Wheeler in several episodes of David Lynch's hit TV show Twin Peaks. In 1992, Zane co-starred alongside Tilda Swinton in Virginia Woolf's film adaptation of Orlando. He appeared in "Mr. Fabian" in Tombstone in 1993, was also in Lake Consequence and played a playboy named Harry, posing as the elusive, albeit fake, believable Damon Bradley alongside Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr. in Only You.
In addition, he appeared in Tales From the Crypt's: Demon Knight, where he played a henchman of Satan, and the series "Well-Cooked Hams," in which he played a bad magician who had to steal good tricks from other magicians. In 1996, Zane played the eponymous classic comic book hero in The Phantom, a big budget action film based on Lee Falk's comedic strip.
In James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster Titanic, Zane played the snobbish millionaire misanthrope Caledon Hockley. Rose's (played by Kate Winslet) fiancé received an MTV Movie Award nomination for "Best Villain" and a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for his work as Rose's (played by Kate Winslet) fiancé. He was also nominated for a SAG award.
He appeared in and produced I Woke Up Early the Day I Died, a silent film based on Ed Wood's last script and intended as a parody on bad filmmaking in 1998. For his latest film work, he received multiple awards at the B-Movie Film Festival, including Best Movie and Best Actor. In a television series about Cleopatra, Timothy Dalton, Bruce Payne, Sean Pertwee, and Leonor Varela all appeared opposite Timothy Dalton, Bruce Payne, Sean Pertwee, and Leonor Varela (who became his fiancé after the shooting ended). Zane appeared in Mark Antony.
In an episode of The New Batman Adventures, John Rolfe appeared in Disney's Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World and Etrigan the Demon.
Zane was instrumental in the success of The Believer, which received the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001. He portrayed neo-Nazi Curtis Zampf in it, and starred opposite Ryan Gosling in it. In the same year, he appeared in the comedy Zoolander as himself.
Zane appeared on Broadway in Chicago, where he portrayed Chicago attorney Billy Flynn.
Zane appeared in the television series Charmed, in which he played poetry-loving ex-demon Drake. He played Ansem, the main antagonist of the 2002 video game Kingdom Hearts, opposite Haley Joel Osment. Despite the fact that archive audio of Zane was later used for Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, Richard Epcar was replaced by Richard Epcar for the remainder of the series from Kingdom Hearts II towards. In Kingdom Hearts Final Mix remaster, Zane's appearance was saved, but not for the Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMix remaster.
Zane appeared in Arthur Allan Seidelman's West End production of Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks as an acerbic gay dance instructor opposite Claire Bloom. He appeared in the Turkish Film Valley of the Wolves Iraq (Kurtlar Vadisi: Irak in Turkish), as part of the Kurtlar Valiantisi brand. The film tells the tale of the US Army's amok in Iraq, but it is eventually put into check by a Turkish soldier. Sam William Marshall, a nefarious American soldier who is the film's main antagonist, is played by Zane.
Timothy Olyphant's ex-boyfriend on Samantha Who? The 2009–2010 season of the show, on the other hand, was not renewed.
Zane is a principal at RadioactiveGiant, a film and television production and distribution firm.
Zane appeared in the 2012 action/thriller film The Kill Hole, and in January 2017 he appeared in a commercial for KFC as a gold-colored Colonel Sanders to pitch the restaurant chain's new limited-time specialty, Georgia Gold Honey Mustard BBQ chicken. Zane appeared in an episode of "Advanced Safety Features" on Community, season 6's "Advanced Safety Features."
Zane appeared in two episodes of The Boys as a fictional representation of himself, made a film with Popc law, and attended a comic convention with Tara Reid. In season 3, Zane appeared as himself portraying Alastair Adana in the Vought film Not Without My Dolphins.