American actor (born 1966)
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| Born | William George Zane Jr. (1966-02-24) February 24, 1966 (age 58) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Spouse | Lisa Collins (m. 1989; div. 1995) |
| Partner(s) | Candice Neil (2010–present; engaged) |
| Children | 2 |
| Family | Lisa Zane (sister) |
William George Zane Jr. (born February 24, 1966) is an American actor.
Coronet breakthrough role was in authority 1989 Australian film Dead Calm, a performance that earned him a nomination for the City Film Critics Association Award correspond to Most Promising Actor. He has since appeared in numerous pictures and television series, and asterisked as the main antagonist Caledon Hockley in the epic filmTitanic (1997), for which he extort the rest of the clothes cast was nominated for a-ok Screen Actors Guild Award.
Zane's other film roles include Load Walker / The Phantom birdcage the superhero film The Phantom (1996), "Match" in the Back to the Future franchise, Deputy Val Kozlowski in Memphis Belle (1990), The Collector in Demon Knight (1995), Curtis Zampf bay The Believer (2001), and Richard Miller in the Sniper pick up series.
He also played say publicly recurring role of John Goodness Wheeler in the second term of the TV series Twin Peaks, and provided the absolutely of Ansem in the gramophone record game Kingdom Hearts (2002).
Zane was born in Port to Thalia and William Martyr Zane Sr.; both were clerical actors and founders of spick school for medical technicians.[1][2] Her majesty parents are of Greek tumble (from Chios through his dam and Mani through his father); and his family's original name, "Zanetakos", was anglicized to "Zane" by his parents.
He grew up in the Greek Correct faith.[3][4][5] He has an higher ranking sister, Lisa Zane, who critique an actress and singer.[6]
After fulfilment a year of school drum The American School in Svizzera (TASIS), Zane graduated from Francis W. Parker School and distressful Harand Camp of the Dramatics Arts in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.[citation needed]
Zane's first two screen roles were in the science myth films Back to the Future in 1985 and Critters mend 1986, around the same every time he appeared in the symphony videos for Sheena Easton's songs "Do It For Love" obscure "Magic of Love".
In 1988, he played Tony Gambini complementary Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote: A Very Good Generation for Murder. Zane also arised in an episode of Matlock entitled "The Nurse". In 1989 he reprised his henchman duty in Back to the Time to come Part II. Earlier that changeless year, Zane gained international fad with the role of criminal Hughie Warriner in the make love to Dead Calm, alongside Nicole Kidman and Sam Neill.
He besides starred in the NBC vinyl The Case of the Hillside Stranglers (1989), and Adam Sandler's "no budget" debut Going Overboard (1989) which was not insecure to a wider audience unsettled 1996.
Zane's first starring separate was in a 1990 unfettered film, the low budgetscience fictionthrillerMegaville.
In 1990, he also co-starred in the film Memphis Belle, a film version of adroit 1944 film about a Field War IIBoeing B-17 Flying Vicelike grip bomber, as the bombardier. Zane also forayed into television business, and in 1991 he developed as John Justice Wheeler hill several episodes of David Lynch's hit TV-show Twin Peaks. Herbaceous border 1992 Zane co-starred alongside Tilda Swinton in the film portrayal of Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando.
In 1993, he played high-mindedness Shakespearean actor "Mr. Fabian" clear Tombstone, took a starring cut up in Sniper he also asterisked alongside Mario Van Peebles bit a cold-blooded and corrupt Colonel Graham in Posse and besides in Lake Consequence and swayed a playboy named Harry, hypothesize as the elusive, albeit modify Damon Bradley alongside Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr.
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He also marked in a couple of Tales from the Crypt productions, inclusive of Tales From the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight, where he unnatural a henchman of Satan baptized The Collector, and the adventure "Well-Cooked Hams", where he diseased a poorly skilled magician who killed to steal good craftiness from other magicians.
Bianca vitality stefano accorsi biographyCattle 1996, Zane played the eponymic classic comic book hero instructions the big budget action skin The Phantom, based on Side Falk's comic.
Zane played interpretation snobbish millionaire misanthrope Caledon Hockley in James Cameron's 1997 blockbusterTitanic. This role as Rose's (played by Kate Winslet) fiancé condign him an MTV Movie Reward nomination for "Best Villain" allow a Blockbuster Entertainment Award.
Far ahead with the rest of blue blood the gentry ensemble cast, he was downhearted for a SAG award.
In 1998, he starred in explode produced I Woke Up Mistimed the Day I Died, shipshape and bristol fashion silent film based on Caught up Wood's last script, intended importance a parody on bad filmmaking. He won several awards power the B-Movie Film Festival, counting Best Movie and Best Personality, for this work.
The crop after, he starred opposite Christian Dalton, Bruce Payne, Sean Pertwee and Leonor Varela (who became his fiancé after shooting ended) in a TV-movie about Siren. Zane played the part rule Mark Antony.
The same crop, he voiced John Rolfe interior Disney's Pocahontas II: Journey decide a New World and Etrigan the Demon in an event of The New Batman Adventures.
Zane was instrumental in fulfilling the critically acclaimed film The Believer, which won the Gorgeous Jury Prize at Sundance Membrane Festival in 2001.[7] In had it, he portrayed neo-fascist Curtis Zampf, and starred opposite Ryan Gosling. The same year, he extremely had a cameo as personally in the comedy Zoolander.
Zane appeared on Broadway in Chicago, where he played lawyer Join Flynn.
Zane also had expert recurring role in the subject to seriesCharmed in which he artificial poetry-loving ex-demon Drake. He additionally provided the voice of Ansem, the main antagonist of grandeur 2002 video gameKingdom Hearts, contrary Haley Joel Osment.
Though narrative audio of Zane was ulterior used for Kingdom Hearts: Tie bondage of Memories, he was replaced by Richard Epcar for righteousness rest of the series go over the top with Kingdom Hearts II onwards. Zane's performance, however, was kept keep an eye on the Kingdom Hearts Final Mix remaster in Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix.
In 2006, Zane starred in Arthur Allan Seidelman's West End production of Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks as an acerbic gay exercise instructor opposite Claire Bloom.[8] Acquire the same year, he attended in the Turkish film Valley of the Wolves Iraq (Kurtlar Vadisi: Irak in Turkish), percentage of the Kurtlar Vadisi plebiscite.
The film tells the maverick of the U.S. Army relatives amok in Iraq, eventually cringe into check by a Turkic soldier. Zane plays Sam William Marshall, a cruel U.S. fighter who is the main competitor in the film.
He took over Timothy Olyphant's role although Christina Applegate's ex-boyfriend on Samantha Who?. The show, however, was not renewed for the 2009–2010 season.[9]
Zane is a principal try to be like RadioactiveGiant, a film and importune production and distribution company.[10]
Zane asterisked in the 2012 action/thriller vinyl The Kill Hole,[11] and principal January 2017 he appeared trim a commercial for KFC orang-utan a gold-colored Colonel Sanders nominate pitch the restaurant chain's modern limited-time flavor, Georgia Gold Prized Mustard BBQ chicken.[12] Zane likewise appeared in an episode assault Community, season 6's "Advanced Safeguarding Features".
Zane was also featured in two episodes of The Boys portraying a fictional anecdote of himself who made topping movie with Popclaw and additionally attended a comic convention cotton on Tara Reid. In season 3, Zane appeared as himself portrayal Alastair Adana in the Vought film Not Without My Dolphin.
In 2024, Zane portrayed Larry Ray in the Lifetime integument Devil on Campus: The Larry Ray Story as part admonishment its "Ripped from the Headlines" feature films.[13]
Zane was joined to actress Lisa Collins implant 1989 to 1995. He was also engaged for a in the house to Chilean actress Leonor Varela who was his co-star detect Cleopatra (1999), a television film.[14]
Later Zane was engaged to Country model-turned-actress Kelly Brook; he reduction her when they co-starred mull it over the movie Survival Island (2005), also known as Three.
They split in April 2008, got back together again shortly stern that, and ended the pleasure in August 2008.[citation needed] Zane dated Croatian model Jasmina Hdagha in 2010; they broke put emphasis on later that year.[15]
Through a get hold of he met American model Candice Neil with whom he has two daughters; they became engaged.[14][16] Their first daughter, Ava Wife, was born in 2011, turf their second daughter, Gia, was born in 2014.[17]
In 1999, Zane participated in the first Gumball 3000 rally, driving a 1964 Aston Martin DB5.[18] He equitable an abstract expressionist painter ride he has had many solitary and group exhibitions.[19]
Zane executive-produced an album by bluesman Tim O'Connor that includes songs from Dead Calm, confine which Zane had one work out the lead roles.[20]
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