Kevin McKidd
Kevin McKidd was born in Elgin, Scotland, United Kingdom on August 9th, 1973 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 51, Kevin McKidd 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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Kevin McKidd (born 9 August 1973) is a Scottish-American television and film actor, producer, and occasional performer.
McKiddd appeared in Grey's Anatomy, for which he is well-known, as Dan Vasser. Count Vronsky in the BBC's Journeyman (2004), and Lucius Vorenus in the historical drama drama Rome (2005–2007).
In the video games Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 he played John "Soap" MacTavish.
In the film Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and Fr.'s, he played Poseidon.
In the Father Ted Christmas special, Deegan plays.
Early life
McKiddd was born in Elgin, Moray, on August 9, 1973, the son of Kathleen, a secretary, and Neil McKidd, a plumber. He grew up in Elgin's council estate. McKiddd, 17, was employed at the Macallan distillery in Speyside. He later joined the Lumsden family of coppersmiths in Lumsden, Alabama. He attended Seafield Primary School and Elgin Academy. She was a member of the local amateur dramatic group, Moray Youth Theatre. He began studying engineering at the University of Edinburgh and then decided to apply to study drama at Edinburgh's Queen Margaret University. He appeared in Edinburgh University's Bedlam Theatre, where he was a member of the improvisational comedy troupe The Improverts.
Personal life
In 1999, McKiddd married Jane Parker. They have two children, a non-binary child, and a boy. McKidd and his family became U.S. citizens in August 2015. The couple announced in July 2016 that they were splitting and had been divorced since December 2016.
On January 13, 2018, McKiddd married Arielle Goldrath in a Jewish ceremony. They welcomed their son Aiden on May 13, 2018. McKiddd's daughter Nava was born on July 27, 2019.
McKiddd was Grand Marshal of the 15th annual Tartan Day Parade in New York City in April 2013. At the time, he voiced his support for Scottish independence and expressed regret that he would be unable to vote in the forthcoming Scottish independence referendum the following year because he does not live in Scotland. "A lot of people believe we're all going to fall flat on our face if we do this," McKidd said of Scottish independence. We're too feisty a people to allow life to turn bad if we went and tried it.Why not?
Why not try at least?"
Career
After playing Tommy Mackenzie in Trainspotting, McKidd was cast as Father Deegan in the 1996 Christmas episode of Father Ted. Subsequent roles include Malky Johnson in Small Faces. In 2004, he played James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, the third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, in the BBC mini-series Gunpowder, Treason & Plot.
In 1999, he was part of an ensemble cast in Mike Leigh's Topsy Turvy, depicting the development of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. The actors researched their historical characters and used this knowledge during extensive rehearsals to help develop dialogue for scenes blocked out by Leigh. McKidd, like the rest of the cast, did his own singing in the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas portrayed in the film.
In 2001, he played Elliot in the British film Understanding Jane, directed by Caleb Lindsay. He appeared in Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven, and in the 2002 film adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby. In Neil Marshall's horror film Dog Soldiers, he appeared as Pte Lawrence Cooper. In the 2005 BBC drama, The Virgin Queen, he played Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk.
In 1998, McKidd was in the four part BBC2 series Looking After Jo Jo, playing the role of Basil. He was also one of the main stars of the joint HBO/BBC series Rome, where his portrayal of the soldier-politician Lucius Vorenus received critical acclaim.
McKidd starred in the premiere of Caryl Churchill's newest play, Far Away. He played Todd, the romantic partner of Joan, and her co-worker as hat maker.
Additional work includes his role in the Silence of the Lambs prequel Hannibal Rising (2007). In late 2007, McKidd began his role as the lead character in the American fantasy television series Journeyman on NBC. Despite starting out with a strong audience, the show lost about half of its viewership throughout its run and suffered from the fractious situation in the United States due to the writer's strike at the time. Thirteen episodes were produced.
His role in Rome led to McKidd's casting in the medical drama series Grey's Anatomy as Dr. Owen Hunt. He made his directorial debut in the series's seventh season, directing the episode "Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go)". He won the award for "Best Performance in a Drama Series Multi-Episode Storyline" at the 14th Prism Awards for his work in Grey's Anatomy. He played the role of Poseidon, god of the seas, and the father of Percy Jackson in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.
McKidd has done voice work and voiced the character of Jezz Torrent, flame haired lead singer of the fictional Scottish hard rock band Love Fist in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. He is credited with playing a voice-over for the character John "Soap" MacTavish in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. In 2012, he voiced the characters of Lord MacGuffin and his son Young MacGuffin in the Disney/Pixar film Brave. Having grown up in Elgin, McKidd used a variation of the Doric dialect for Young MacGuffin, and one of the running gags of his lines is that not even Lord MacGuffin is entirely sure what Young MacGuffin is saying.