Karl Urban
Karl Urban was born in Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand on June 7th, 1972 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 51, Karl Urban biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Karl-Heinz Urban (born 7 June 1972) is a New Zealand actor.
His career began with appearances in New Zealand films and TV series such as Xena: Warrior Princess.
His first Hollywood role was in the 2002 horror film Ghost Ship.
Since then, he has appeared in many high-profile movies, including the second and third installments of The Lord of the Rings trilogy in the role of Éomer.
He has also portrayed Leonard McCoy in the Star Trek reboot film series, Vaako in the Riddick film series, and Judge Dredd in Dredd.
Since 2019, he has starred in Amazon's web television series The Boys.
Early life
Urban was born in Wellington, New Zealand. His father, a German immigrant, owned a leather goods store, and his mother once worked for Film Facilities in Wellington. Through his mother, the young Urban was exposed to classic New Zealand cinema and developed an interest in the film industry. Urban attended St Mark's Church School, where he showed an early love for public performance. His first acting role came at age eight, when he had a single line in one episode of the New Zealand television series Pioneer Woman. Though continuing to take part in school stage productions, he did not act professionally again until after high school.
He attended Wellington College in 1986–1990. He then enrolled at Victoria University of Wellington in the Bachelor of Arts program but left after one year to pursue a career in acting. Over the next few years, he appeared in several local TV commercials in addition to theater roles in the Wellington area. Eventually, he moved to Auckland where he was offered many guest roles in TV shows (one of which was playing a heroin addict in the police drama Shark in the Park). Urban then moved briefly to Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia in 1995 before returning to New Zealand the following year.
Personal life
In September 2004, Urban married his longtime partner, Natalie Wihongi, who was his makeup artist for the 2000 television film The Privateers. Together they have two sons; Hunter and Indiana. His second son was named for the eponymous hero of the Indiana Jones franchise, which he has stated is one of his favourite movie series. They lived in their NZ$5.25 million mansion in the affluent Herne Bay section of Auckland, New Zealand. The couple announced their separation in June 2014, selling their home for NZ$6.65 million in December 2014.
From 2014 to 2018, he was in a relationship with actress Katee Sackhoff.
Urban serves as a celebrity ambassador for KidsCan, a charity that currently supports over 16,000 disadvantaged children in New Zealand by providing them with essentials such as food, clothing, and shoes.
In May 2022, UNICEF Aotearoa New Zealand welcomed Urban as an official Ambassador to support in raising awareness on children’s rights both in New Zealand and around the world.
On 1 June 2020, Urban, together with Sean Astin, Sean Bean, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, Miranda Otto, John Rhys-Davies, Andy Serkis, Liv Tyler, and Elijah Wood, plus writer Philippa Boyens and director Peter Jackson, joined Josh Gad's YouTube series Reunited Apart which reunites the cast of popular movies through video-conferencing, and promotes donations to non-profit charities.
Career
Urban's first Hollywood appearance was in the 2002 horror film Ghost Ship. Since then, he has appeared in many high-profile films, including The Second and Third installments of The Lord of the Rings trilogy (The Return of the King and The Kingdom's Return of the King) as Éomer, The Bourne Supremacy (as Russian Federal Security Service Agent Kirill) and Doom. Urban was one of many actors in contention for the role of British secret service agent 007 in Casino Royale, directed by fellow New Zealander Martin Campbell, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
In Universal Pictures' Doom (based on the first-person shooter video game Doom), Urban played John "Reaper" Grimm, which was released on October 21, 2005. In 2007, he appeared in the Viking adventure Pathfinder for the first time. He was a long-time Western fan, appearing as Woodrow Call in Comanche Moon, a television miniseries that debuted in early 2008 as a precursor to Larry McMurtry's book series of the same name.
He played Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy in 2009, a role portrayed by DeForest Kelley in the original Star Trek TV series. Urban has been an avid fan of the Star Trek franchise since childhood, and he has been keen to appear in the film. The Star Trek fan community embraced his contribution to Kelley's McCoy's spirit.
In Red, the graphic novel of the same name and co-starring Bruce Willis and Helen Mirren, Urban next appeared as CIA agent William Cooper. In the film adaptation of the Korean manhwa Priest released in 3-D in 2011, he portrayed Black Hat, a villainous priest-turned-vampire.
In the film Dredd, Urban starred as Judge Dredd, a law-enforcing comic book character. Urban called it a "high-octane, action-fueled film" about the day in the life of Dredd in an interview with Shave magazine. Pete Travis produced the film with a script by Alex Garland. Despite the fact that it failed at the box office, critics lauded Dredd's positive reception.
In 2013, Urban appeared in Almost Human, a J. H. Wyman-produced television series. The film was set 35 years ago in the Los Angeles area where cops were still working. Are matched with lifelike androids. Urban was a detective who has a penchant for robots, but ended up teamed up with one with emotional feelings. Urban next appeared in The Loft, a Belgian film of the same name, a remake of the Belgian film of the same name. Erik Van Looy, the director of the 2008 original, shot it in New Orleans and Belgium. Urban made Michael C. Hall the principal antagonist in Pete's Dragon's 2016 remake. In 2017, he appeared in Thor: Ragnarok as Skurge. In addition, Urban played a psychotic cop in the action thriller Acts of Vengeance opposite Antonio Banderas and Robert Forster in 2017.
In the Amazon Prime series The Boys, Urban has appeared as William "Billy" Butcher since 2019.