1. Graham McTavish was born on 4 January 1961 and is a Scottish actor and author.
37 Facts About Graham McTavish
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Graham McTavish is known for his roles as Dwalin in The Hobbit film trilogy, The Saint of Killers in the AMC series Preacher, Dougal MacKenzie and William Buccleigh MacKenzie in the Starz series Outlander, and Harrold Westerling in the HBO series House of the Dragon.
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Graham McTavish is known for his roles in the video game franchise Uncharted as the main antagonist Zoran Lazarevic in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Charlie Cutter in Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception.
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Graham McTavish is the son of Alec and Ellen McTavish.
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Graham McTavish's family left Glasgow when McTavish was a child, and throughout his adult life, he has lived in places such as Canada, the United States, and England before settling in New Zealand.
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Graham McTavish went on to attend Queen Mary University of London, earning a degree in English literature.
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Early in his career, Graham McTavish did theatre work with the repertory theatres of London's West End and at the Dundee Rep with colleagues that included Jimmy Logan and Robert Robertson.
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Graham McTavish next featured in 1988's Freedom Fighter, which was broadcast on ITV and starred Tony Danza as a man who helped those living in East Berlin cross the Berlin Wall.
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In 2000, Graham McTavish guest-starred in ITV's mini-series The Stretch, a two-part crime drama centering on crime boss Terry Green and his wife Sam.
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Graham McTavish returned to the crime drama Taggart in 2005's episode "Mind Over Matter" and to medical drama Casualty in the series nineteen episode "Baby Love".
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Graham McTavish went on to a recurring role in ITV's police procedural drama The Bill.
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Graham McTavish finished out the year by starring in two television films: Good Girl, Bad Girl, the story of a set of twins who tangle with a drug dealer, and Sharpe's Challenge, a drama surrounding a British Soldier during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Graham McTavish portrayed The Dark Spirit in a three episode guest appearance on CBS's web series Ghost Whisperer: The Other Side, which explored the world through the ghost's perspective.
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Graham McTavish appeared in ABC's supernatural thriller Pushing Daisies and CBS's crime drama CSI: Miami.
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In 2009, Graham McTavish returned to CBS for a guest starring role, opposite Jennifer Love Hewitt, in the supernatural drama Ghost Whisperer.
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Graham McTavish portrayed Russian foreign minister Mikhail Novakovich in a seven-episode stint on Fox's hit series 24 in 2010.
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Graham McTavish went on to appear in an episode of Fox's action comedy series The Good Guys, which revolves around two detectives stuck solving small crimes.
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In 2016, Graham McTavish landed the recurring role of William Munny, the Saint of Killers in AMC's drama Preacher, which is based upon Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's comic book series of the same name.
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Graham McTavish returned to Outlander in 2020, in a surprise appearance as William Buccleigh MacKenzie, the son of Dougal MacKenzie and Geillis Duncan.
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In 2021 Graham McTavish joined the cast of Netflix's fantasy drama The Witcher, based upon author Andrzej Sapkowski's book series, as master spy and Redanian Intelligence head Sigismund Dijkstra.
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Graham McTavish went on to star in director Jeremy Freeston's 1997 adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, opposite Jason Connery.
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Graham McTavish performed in two documentaries on Shakespearean works in 1997.
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Graham McTavish continued with Shakespeare in 1999 by portraying the Duke of Albany in King Lear, opposite Brian Blessed.
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In 2008, Graham McTavish starred opposite Sylvester Stallone in Rambo, the fourth film in the franchise based upon David Morrell's 1972 novel First Blood.
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In 2010, Graham McTavish had a supporting role in Disney's Secretariat, based upon the true story of Penny Chenery and the racehorse who would win the first American Triple Crown in twenty-five years.
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Graham McTavish would go on to feature in The Wicker Tree, Robin Hardy's sequel to his 1973 film The Wicker Man, and Sony Pictures' action film Colombiana, opposite Zoe Saldana.
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Graham McTavish completed 2014 with a supporting role in the action adventure film Plastic, opposite Ed Speleers, and director Jonathan King's independent sci-fi thriller REALITi.
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Graham McTavish then appeared, as himself, in director Yaniv Rokah's documentary Queen Mimi, which recounted the life of a homeless woman in Santa Monica, California.
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Graham McTavish is currently working on his directoral debut, titled This Guest of Summer, which was partially funded through IndieGoGo, a crowd funding platform.
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Graham McTavish has done extensive voice work in animated series, films and video games.
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Graham McTavish continued in the Marvel Universe by portraying the villain Loki in the direct-to-video animated feature Hulk Versus and Disney XD's animated series The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
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Graham McTavish would go on, in 2009, to portray Commander Lucius in Epic Games' Shadow Complex, Crimson in Tecmo Koei's Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, Arl Eamon Guerrin in BioWare's Dragon Age: Origins, Archer in Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and Wilcox in Electronic Arts' The Saboteur.
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Graham McTavish provided both the voice and motion capture work for the main antagonist Zoran Lazarevic in action-adventure game Uncharted 2: Among Thieves.
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Graham McTavish provided both the voice and motion capture work for Charlie Cutter in Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception.
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Graham McTavish has provided additional voices for Medieval II: Total War, Heavenly Sword, 007: Quantum of Solace, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Mobilized, Call of Duty: Black Ops, and Star Wars: The Old Republic.
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Graham McTavish was married to New Zealand filmmaker Gwen Isaac, with whom he has two children.
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In January 2023, Graham McTavish married Garance Dore at Borthwick Castle in Scotland.