- Born
- Birth nameAlexander O'Lachlan
- Height6′ 0¾″ (1.85 m)
- The Australian actor Alex O'Loughlin was born in August 1976.
Alex started out his film career in 2004, when he starred in Oyster Farmer (2004) as Jack Flange. The following year, he returned to the big screen as Michael Carter in Feed (2005), a movie that he also co-produced and helped write. Also released that year was a movie titled Man-Thing (2005), in which Alex played Deputy Eric Fraser.
However, his most recent role in a feature film was that of "Marcus Bohem" in The Invisible (2007). Alex acted in the Australian miniseries Mary Bryant (2005) as the title role's husband. He made his way to American serialized television in The Shield (2002) as Detective Kevin Hiatt, the newest member of the strike team. Alex can be seen as Marshall in the movie August Rush (2007), and also in Whiteout (2009). In 2005, he was nominated for the Australian Film Institute's Best Lead Actor in Television for his role in Mary Bryant (2005). In 2006, he was nominated for the Logie Awards' Silver Logie in the same category and role.- IMDb mini biography by: Dawn
- SpouseMalia Jones(April 18, 2014 - present) (1 child)
- RelativesJennifer(Sibling)
- Bright smile
- Has two sons, from different mothers, Saxon, born in July 1997, and Lion, born October 25, 2012.
- Following the withdrawal of Pierce Brosnan, O'Loughlin was a candidate for the role of James Bond, until the role was recast with Daniel Craig in 2005, in preparation for Casino Royale (2006).
- His girlfriend, Malia Jones, a surfer and model, gave birth to their first child together, a son named Lion, on October 25, 2012. Malia has another son, Spike, from her second marriage.
- He is of Irish and Scottish descent. His father teaches physics and astronomy in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and his mother is a nurse in Canberra, Australian Capitol Territory, Australia.
- His last name is pronounced "O-lock-lin".
- I am a big fan of vampires. I've always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romanticism and erotic kind of nature of the immortal being, the undead who lives on human blood.
- Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying (June 16 2005).
- There were times I was thinking, 'What am I doing, this is crazy'. I was scared because I had no money and no ticket home. That is the time when everyone else packs up and leaves. But I remembered everything my grandfather taught me about the work ethic before he died. He was brought up out in the bush and his advice was 'put your head down and keep working, son, and you'll get what's coming to you'. You just push through.
- [2010] [When I was 20 I once watched a rugby game with my friends and] I'd had too much coffee and I was sort of showing off, narrating the game and being an idiot. And at halftime, my mate came up to me and said, 'Dude, you're an actor and you're not doing anything about it.'
- [2010] Do you mind? [motioning toward his pack of cigarettes] Or are you going to write in the interview, 'and then he lit a Camel?'
- Hawaii Five-0 (2010) - $200,000 per episode
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