Holt McCallany

At 61 years old, Holt McCallany has this physical status:

Holt McCallany (born Holt Quinn McAloney) is an American actor, writer, and producer best known for his role as Bill Tench on the television show Mindhunter (2017–present).

Early life and education

McCallany was born in New York City, September 3, 1963, to a dramatic parent. Julie Wilson (1924–2015), an American singer and actress, was "widely regarded as the queen of cabaret." Michael McAloney (1924–2000), an Irish actor and producer best known for his Tony Award-winning production of Borstal Boy, an autobiographical drama about a young soldier of the Irish Republican Army, was the first Irish production to receive top accolades on Broadway.

McCallany and his younger brother were sent to live with another family in Dublin because his father wanted a classical education for his two sons, while his parents remained in New York City, working. He attended the National School in Howth, Ireland. However, the children returned to the United States following their parents' divorce. He began attending school in New Jersey and was later sent to live with his maternal grandparents in Omaha, Nebraska, where he had a turbulent childhood and was expelled from Creighton Preparatory School. He escaped from home and took a Greyhound bus to Los Angeles to fulfill his aspiration of becoming an actor, but ended up unloading trucks. His parents finally tracked him down and sent him back to Ireland, to a boarding school in County Kildare that his father had attended forty years ago, Newbridge College.

He left Ireland quickly and was eventually allowed to return to Creighton Preparatory School, where he graduated in 1981. He went to France to continue his education, first to study French at the Sorbonne and art at the Paris American Academy and then theater at L'École Marcel Marceau and L'École Jacques Lecoq. McCallany spent a summer studying Shakespeare at Oxford University and was involved in a Twelfth Night performance at Edinburgh Fringe Festival before heading to New York City to begin his professional acting career.

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Career

His first job in the professional theater was as an apprentice actor at the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in Cleveland, Ohio, in the same apprenticeship once served by Tom Hanks, among others. Subsequently, he returned to New York City and was cast as an understudy in the Broadway production of Biloxi Blues.

McCallany landed a series of supporting parts in such films as Casualties of War, Alien 3, Creepshow 2, The Search for One-eye Jimmy, and Jade, as well as the TV miniseries Rough Riders. After playing the legendary boxing trainer Teddy Atlas in the HBO telefilm Tyson, he became a supporter of the Atlas Foundation Charity, a grassroots organization dedicated to helping children and families with medical and financial hardships.

He continued working in films and television throughout the nineties and 2000s with roles in films such as Fight Club, Three Kings, Men of Honor, and Below, among others. He played a detective with psychological problems in CSI: Miami and a soldier with post-traumatic stress disorder on Criminal Minds.

He appeared in the 2010 Warner Bros. film, The Losers, based on the graphic novel from DC Comics. McCallany also was the star of the 2011 FX television series, Lights Out, playing an aging boxer ("Patrick 'Lights' Leary") forced out of retirement and into a comeback bid to regain the heavyweight title, despite having pugilistic dementia.

He followed this with roles in films like Sully, Shot Caller, and Blackhat, among many others.

Since 2017, McCallany co-stars in the Netflix series Mindhunter for director David Fincher. He plays Bill Tench, an FBI agent researching serial killers in the late-1970s. His first French language film was released in September, 2019, an adaptation of the George Feydeau comedy Le Dindon.

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