Biography for
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Date of Birth

3 September 1963, New York City, New York, USA

Birth Name

Holt McAloney

Height

6' 2" (1.88 m)

Mini Biography

Holt was born into a family of New York City actors; his mother is the renowned singer/actress Julie Wilson, and his father was Tony Award-winning actor and producer Michael McAloney. He began school in Dublin, Ireland at the age of five before his parents moved back to NY. At 14 years old, he ran away from home and took a Greyhound bus to Los Angeles to pursue his dream of becoming an actor but his parents tracked him down and sent him back to Ireland to boarding school.

Following high school, Holt went to France to continue his education. He learned French at the Sorbonne, studied art history at the Paris American Academy, and theater at L'Ecole Marceau and L'Ecole Jacques Lecoq. He spent a summer studying Shakespeare in Oxford then moved back to New York City permanently to begin his acting career. He now makes his home in Los Angeles and New York, is a history lover who enjoys reading biographies.

Holt most recently starred in the critically acclaimed dramatic series "Lights Out" (2011) for FX, earning rave reviews for his performance as heavyweight champion Patrick "Lights" Leary. Holt next appears in a number of upcoming films including the period crime drama Gangster Squad (2013), a futuristic retelling of Herman Melville's classic "Moby Dick", titled "White Space", and an exploration of extrasensory perception, The Ganzfeld Experiment (2013). Other film credits include Fight Club (1999), Three Kings (1999), Men of Honor (2000), Below (2002), Vantage Point (2008) and The Losers (2010/I). On television, Holt played a detective with psychological problems on "CSI: Miami" (2002) and a soldier with post-traumatic stress disorder on "Criminal Minds" (2005), among others. For the stage - "The Taming Of The Shrew", "Twelfth Night", "Bovver Boys", "Rosetta Street", and "By The Sea, By The Sea, By The Beautiful Sea".

IMDb Mini Biography By: Lauren Auslander

Trivia

Raised in Nebraska; attended school in Ireland.

Studied theater in Paris, France.

He made his debut in the Broadway production of "Biloxi Blues"

He has been a supporter for the Teddy Atlas Foundation (charity) for years

Son of actor/producer Michael McAloney and actress Julie Wilson.

Speaks French.

Maintains homes in NYC and Los Angeles.

Trained in mixed martial arts.