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Holt McCallany

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Holt McCallany at an event for Justice League (2017)
Veteran actor Holt McCallany stars  as FBI Agent Bill Tench in the new Netflix series "Mindhunter". What other roles has he played over the years?
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In a career spanning over 30 years, Holt McCallany has worked with some of the world's best directors including David Fincher, Guillermo Del Toro, David O'Russell, Guy Ritchie, William Friedkin, Lawrence Kasdan, Walter Hill, Clint Eastwood, David Twohy, Brian De Palma, and Michael Mann among others.

Holt starred in the Netflix series Mindhunter as Bill Tench, an FBI agent researching serial killers in the late 1970s, and has appeared in memorable roles in Fight Club, Three Kings, Alien III, and Men of Honor to name but a few. In 2011, Holt was the star of the raw and gritty FX series Light's Out where he played a boxer with pugilistic dementia.

Born into a theatrical family, Holt's father, Michael, was a Tony Award winning Broadway producer and his mother was the legendary cabaret singer Julie Wilson. At 14, Holt ran away from home and took a Greyhound bus to Hollywood with dreams of becoming an actor, but his parents tracked him down and sent him to a boarding school in Ireland.

At 18, Holt traveled to France where he studied French at the Sorbonne, art at The Paris American Academy and, later, theater at L'École Marcel Marceau and L'École Jacques Lecoq. He went on to study Shakespeare at Oxford and later worked extensively in theater in the United States and abroad.

He is unmarried and lives in New York City.
BornSeptember 3
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Known for

Holt McCallany, Anna Torv, and Jonathan Groff in Mindhunter (2017)
Mindhunter
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TV Series
  • Bill Tench
Brad Pitt and Edward Norton in Fight Club (1999)
Fight Club
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  • The Mechanic
  • 1999
Holt McCallany in Lights Out (2011)
Lights Out
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  • Patrick 'Lights' Leary
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in Shot Caller (2017)
Shot Caller
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  • The Beast
  • 2017

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  • Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part Two
    • Secretary Of Defence Bernstein
    • In Production
    • 2024
  • The Iron Claw
    • Fritz Von Erich
    • Post-production
  • The Star Maker
    • Pre-production
  • Leah Harvey in Foundation (2021)
    Foundation
    • Warden Jaegger Fount
    • TV Series
    • 2021
  • Courtney B. Vance in 61st Street (2022)
    61st Street
    • Lieutenant Brannigan
    • TV Series
    • 2022–2023
  • Wolves (2022)
    Wolves
    • Westview Country Supply Manager (voice)
    • 2022
  • Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Bradley Cooper, and Rooney Mara in Nightmare Alley (2021)
    Nightmare Alley
    • Anderson
    • 2021
  • Liam Neeson in The Ice Road (2021)
    The Ice Road
    • Lampard
    • 2021
  • Jason Statham in Wrath of Man (2021)
    Wrath of Man
    • Bullet
    • 2021
  • Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, and Roger Dale Floyd in Greenland (2020)
    Greenland
    • Twin Otter Pilot
    • 2020
  • Dany Boon, Guillaume Gallienne, Alice Pol, Laure Calamy, Ahmed Sylla, and Camille Lellouche in Le dindon (2019)
    Le dindon
    • Wayne
    • 2019
  • Holt McCallany, Anna Torv, and Jonathan Groff in Mindhunter (2017)
    Mindhunter
    • Bill Tench
    • TV Series
    • 2017–2019
  • Dermot Mulroney, Gary Sinise, Robert Patrick, Max Martini, Elisabeth Röhm, Lily Rabe, Omari Hardwick, and Luis Bordonada in SGT. Will Gardner (2019)
    SGT. Will Gardner
    • Officer Callahan
    • 2019
  • Beyond White Space (2018)
    Beyond White Space
    • Richard Bentley
    • 2018
  • Ben Affleck, Jeremy Irons, Amy Adams, Henry Cavill, Jason Momoa, Gal Gadot, Ezra Miller, and Ray Fisher in Justice League (2017)
    Justice League
    • Burglar (uncredited)
    • 2017
  • Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in Shot Caller (2017)
    Shot Caller
    • The Beast
    • 2017
  • Danny Glover, Rob Lowe, Thomas Lennon, Lucas Till, and Jane Levy in Monster Trucks (2016)
    Monster Trucks
    • Burke
    • 2016
  • Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)
    Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
    • Col. Morgan
    • 2016

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    • executive producer
    • Post-production
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    • Pre-production

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  • Alternative names
    • Holt Mccallany
  • Height
    • 6′ (1.83 m)
  • Born
    • September 3
    • New York City, New York, USA
  • Parents
      Julie Wilson
  • Other works
    "By the Sea", playing Quentin/Ace/Willy "Biloxi Blues", playing Wykowski/Selridge "A terrible Beauty" playing John Murphy "Rosetta Street", playing Charlie "Crosspatch", playing The Assistant "Bovver Boys", playing Ennis

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    • Male

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    Studied theater in Paris, France.
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    I love boxing. I really respect the guys and admire the guys who do it. But, I'm very, very happy with my career as an actor. I made the right choice and things are really working out for me right now, but I won't pretend that there isn't a part of me that always secretly wanted to be a boxer.

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